To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause

KICK GALLERY, Athens
3-6 JUNE 2021


Curated by
Marina Doritis

Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing.

– José Esteban Muñoz

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The screening To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause presents video works by artists that deploy music, sound, and storytelling to explore queer narratives. At the heart of the selected works is a desire to share personal experiences and public histories, and to broach ideas around sexuality and gender politics. The notion of performativity is evident in all the works, recalling the writings of José Esteban Muñoz and the utopian potential of the queer aesthetic and subject.

My Barbarian
Counterpublicity, 2014

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation, 2013

Edward Thomasson
Pressure, 2016

​Jasmine Johnson
More Than Two: Omnibus, 2018

​Evan Ifekoya
The Gender Song, 2014

P. Staff
The Foundation, 2015

​Christodoulos Panayioutou
Utopian Songs, 2007