"Queering Mythography for Alternative Futures", Mimosa House, London (UK)

Hesiod’s Theogony is a profoundly political poem that introduced deities to embody the concepts of justice, good governance, social peace, strife, war and others. These deities and the hierarchal relations between them, such as structuring the world around patriach-Zeus, left a fundamental mark on contemporary understanding and interpretation of socio-political imaginary and ‘normality’. In this lecture-performance, Avenir Institute presented this timeless context first introduced by Theogony. The focus is on Zeus, Athena and Dionysos, as representations of past, present and alternative futures.