A/S/L: QUEER ENTANGLEMENTS

Goethe-Institut Cyprus, Institut Français de Chypre and Queer Wave in partnership with Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) present “nono, bad timing!”, a process-based exhibition focusing on archiving queer times and spaces. The project brings together material from Queer as German Folk, which can be visited in its entirety at the Goethe-Institut in Nicosia, the Marseille-based archive of Mémoire des sexualités, whilst for the month of October it becomes a laboratory for new archiving proposals by Cyprus-based cultural practitioners.

We warmly invite you to a performance lecture by Gervaise Savvias that explores the relationship between archives and community building.
In this performance lecture titled “A/S/L: Queer Entanglements”, Zambian–Cypriot artist, writer, and researcher Gervaise Savvias draws on their piece ‘intimate reflections on SESSIONS’ (Shado Mag, 2024), exploring recent notions of queer communality and chance encounters in the context of Cyprus, desirability politics, and comments on chrononormativity. By way of diagrammatic intervention and intimate poeticism, this activation is a moment to comment on the violence presented by hegemonic clock time, all bound together by a reflective critique against linearity to define the archive – as concept, as space. They are particularly interested in the intimacies apparent in demystifying the archive: observing it as a living organism, rather than bound to temporal staticity; a graveyard of memory.

The materialization of nono, bad timing! is funded by the Franco-German Cultural Fund.