Description
Acknowledging the limited access we have to our queer history, locally and beyond, it was important for us to compile this book right after our closing, in the spirit of making hay while the sun shines. With this book we are attempting to capture the rhythm, volume, and content of all that happened, with each page dedicated to each day between June and December 2023. We, Dimitris Chimonas & Lex Gregoriou, along with Clio Hadjigeorgiou, Demetris Shammas, Nicola Mitropoulou, and Loizos Olympios, assembled together images, texts, and archival material, to narrate Sessions’ takeover of the State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL, to let this extraordinary moment be a reference to the future.
Special thanks to Peter Eramian for the panoptic introduction, Marilena Zakheos, Elena Vasiliou, Marina Ashioti, and Stavros S. Karyanni for the texts, reflections and notes, agia akira, Panayiotis Michael & Christina Lambrou, Pashies LTD, Ioulita Toumazi & Miriam Gatt, and Gervaise for writing for our monthly prints, now included in the book. We also extend our gratitude to everyone who enriched this queer archive with photographs and texts.
We will forever be grateful to have collaborated with and witnessed together this multiplicity of queer quests in this particular moment in Cyprus.
