FYTA
FYTA (Greek: ΦΥΤΑ, meaning plants) are an Athens-based conceptual art and performance art duo. Their work problematises Greek identity and nationalism. FYTA’s work combines different media and disciplines mostly operating within the wider framework of overidentification, queer politics and anti-humanist art, while they aim at a performative destabilisation of concepts of truth and nature / the natural.
Selective present and past activities:
Jan 2024 | Avant-Drag! (premiere) | International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands | screening |
Oct 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | MIX CPH Festival, Copenhagen | screening |
Oct 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg | screening |
Oct 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | Cinema Queer Fest, Stockholm | screening |
Sep 2022 | Foreskin Warriors | The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London | performance |
Sep 2022 | Art | Sub Rosa Athens | exhibition |
Sep 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | Fringe! Film & Arts Fest and Whitechapel Gallery, London | screening |
Sep 2022 | Kait Borsay: “Thoughtful Debates on Current Issues” | Times Radio | interview |
Jul 2022 | The Life & Times of Aphrodite, Queen of Beauty | Movement Radio | podcast |
Jun 2022 | Ntianna Vasileiou: “Queer dies on the hands of institutions and TV” | Vice | interview |
May 2022 | Aphrodisiac Ectoplasmata | Youtube | video intervention |
Jan 2022 | Sarah Hucal: “Greece’s first queer opera pays homage to deceased LGTBQ activist” | Deutsche Welle | interview |
May 2022 | ORFEAS2021plus Q&A | O. Festival, WORM, Rotterdam | screening |
Feb–Jun 2022 | The ABC of FYTA: R, S, T | Soundcloud | podcasts |
Apr 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | Wicked Queer Film Festival @ ICA Boston | screening |
Apr 2022 | ORFEAS2021 plus Q&A | Babylon Cinema, Berlin | screening |
Nov 2021 | ORFEAS2021 (premiere) | Film Forward Competition – Thessaloniki Film Festival | screening |
Nov 2021 | The Death of Queer | Art Athina Pop Up | exhibition participation |
Oct 2021 | Dana Papachristou: “Interview with FYTA” | und.Athens | interview |
Sep 2021 | ORFEAS2021 | Greek National Opera | screening |
Sep 2021 | The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures | Studies in Theatre and Performance Volume 41 | article |
Apr 2021 | The Banana Lemon Impasse | Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens | installation |
Mar 2021 | 200 Years of Suffocation | website | exhibition curation |
Mar 2021 | Christiana Baxevani: “200 Years of Suffocation: a subversive exhibition about (anti-)Greekness, post-truth & queer experience” | Popaganda | interview |
Jan 2021 | The Shining of Greek Art | video | |
Jan 2021 | Open Letter to Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki | Email/Post | intervention |
Nov 2020 | Psychoanalysis & Post-Truth: US Election Special | Freud Museum, London | conference/exhibition curation |
Oct–Dec 2020 | The ABC of FYTA: O, P, Q | Soundcloud | podcast |
Oct 2020 | Alvorada Dourada | Art Athina Viewing Rooms | exhibition participation |
Oct 2020 | Threnody: 1821 Shit | video | |
Feb 2020 | Despina Zefkili: “FYTA, what are you doing with Orpheus and the graves of national heroes?” | Athinorama | interview |
Oct 2019 | Athens Festival of Queer Performance | Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research, Athens | festival curation |
Oct 2019 | Fried Plants Live | Athens School of Fine Arts | live music / performance |
Sep 2019 | The Social Contract & Its Discontents | Athens School of Fine Arts | festival curation |
Jun 2019 | What is Queer Writing? | Queer Ink, Athens | symposium curation |
Sep 2016–Jan 2019 | FYTA vs New Museum saga | Email/Post | ongoing intervention project |
May 2019 | 200 Thousand Years of Greece | Euronoize, Scala, London | video |
Oct 2018 | Plants on Holiday | Berlin Porn Film Festival | video |
Sep 2018 | Sell Out! | Athens School of Fine Arts | live music / performance |
Sep 2018 | The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures | Athens School of Fine Arts | festival curation |
Sep 2018 | Fytini Lexicon 2 | DIY Fytini Press | publication |
Sep 2018 | Themistoklis Pantazakos: “Why should someone do a festival on post-truth?” | Skra-Punk | interview |
Sep 2018 | Which Post-Truth Era Character Are You? | U-quiz | interactive quiz |
Aug 2018 | Golfe | Online & Communitism, Athens | video |
Jul 2018 | FYTA TV | video | |
Jun 2018 | Pokemon Poetry | Text Me Lab, Atopos CVC, Athens | curation and workshop |
May 2018 | Two | Glam Slam! Athens | performance |
Apr 2018 | EMSTikta & EMSTaseis | EMST, Athens | workshop |
Mar 2018 | Borderline Offensive Residency | House of Humour, Bulgaria | [resigned] |
Jan–Aug 2018 | The ABC of FYTA: E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N | Soundcloud | podcasts |
Feb 2018 | Alastair Sooke: “The Art of Now: Greek Revival” | BBC4 Radio | interview |
Feb 2018 | Audrey Schmidt: “Athens is the New Berlin” | Minority Report | interview |
Jan 2018 | Which Greek Art Institution Are You? | U-quiz | interactive quiz |
Nov–Dec 2017 | The ABC of FYTA: A, B, C | Soundcloud | podcasts |
Oct 2017 | 5 Years of FYTA | Atopos CVC, Athens | exhibition and event curation |
Oct 2017 | FYTOPOLY | Atopos CVC, Athens | interactive game installation |
Sep 2017 | FYTA Bianella Documentary | Gdańska Galeria Miejska | screening |
May 2017 | The Death of Queer | Athens & Epidaurus Festival | performance |
May 2017 | Sound Acts 3 | Athens & Epidaurus Festival | curation |
May 2017 | Queer / Unqueer | Atopos CVC, Athens | event curation and research |
Apr 2017 | Documena | Athens Bienalle & other locations | curation and performance |
Apr 2017 | Grecanic Canon | Baggeion Hotel, Athens | performance |
Apr 2017 | Waiting for the Barbarians | Athens Biennale | [resigned] |
Apr 2017 | We Are the Art | Twisting C(r)ash part 2, Romantso, Athens | installation |
Jan 2017 | Para Fysin | Athens Museum of Queer Arts | event curation |
Mar 2017 | Queer Indigenous Catwalk | Documenta Intervention, Athens | performance |
Jan 2017 | The Black Book of FYTA | Nefeli Publishing | book |
Nov 2016 | Aliki in Saigon with Aimée Lê | Bandcamp | music |
Oct 2016 | Pokemon Poetry: Transhuman / transmedia / transcultural / translative | Bucks New University | conference participation |
May 2016 | 14 Days in the life of a spicy pizza | Athens School of Fine Arts & Bandcamp | Artwork |
May 2016 | Conceptual songwriting & object-oriented synthesis | Athens Museum of Queer Arts | workshop |
May 2016 | The Equilibrists | DESTE & New Museum | resigned |
Apr 2016 | Hellenic Awakening | Onassis Cultural Centre | performance |
Apr 2016 | Greeceland | Deep Trash, Working Men’s Club, London | installation |
Apr 2016 | Sound Acts 2 | KET, Athens | curation |
Mar 2016 | Marinator | Website | interactive |
Jan 2016 | Rhizome | Youtube | video |
Oct 2015 | What is it all about? (lecture) | Zürcher Hochschule der Künste | lecture |
Oct 2015 | nEUROlogy | Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva | interactive performance |
Oct 2015 | FYTINI: An attempt towards the queerification of greek music | Sound : Gender : Feminism : Activism conference, London College of Communication | presentation |
Apr 2015 | Andriana Minou’s Epicycle | KET, Athens | performance participation |
Feb 2015 | Fytini Lexicon 1 | DIY Fytini Press | publication |
Dec 2014 | Glüh/Birne | nGBK, Berlin | performance |
Nov 2014 | Instant Psyconalysis | Apiary Studios, London | interactive performance |
Oct 2014 | FYTA Greatest Hits | Bandcamp | album |
Mar 2014–Sep 2019 | FYTINI | Online/bandcamp/youtube | curation |
Feb 2014 | Genes of Stupidity | Youtube | video |
Jun 2014 | Pokemon Poetry | Bandcamp | music |
Jan 2014 | Action ST | Panke, Berlin | video performance |
Sep 2013 | Helmet: “Homey FYTA” | Ough | interview |
Sep 2013 | FYTA Bianella: Ficus Golden Jubilee | Athens Biennale | curation and happenings |
Sep 2013 | The 100 Worst Greeks | Athens Biennale & online | interactive artwork |
Aug 2013 | IMF: It Gets Better (Pinkwashing Version) | Youtube | video |
Jul 2013 | Alvorada Dourada | Youtube | video |
Dec 2013 | British Museum Visit | Youtube | video |
Dec 2013 | Enemy Art | Apiary Studios, London | interactive performance |
Nov 2013 | Floweremedies / Apply for a Song | Athens Biennale, Bandcamp | interactive |
Sep 2013 | List-en: ein Produkt der Deutsch-Griechischen Freundschaft | Bandcamp and vinyl | music |
Dec 2012 | FYTA Tiganita | Bandcamp | music |
Sep 2012 | Anthi | Bandcamp | music |
Aug 2012 | On Being Sane in Sunny Places | Panke Berlin | curation |