WordMord_an ongoing collective project about the relation between language, violence and trauma
Phase II: “Let´s Assemble Our Wordy Arms”_a performative laboratory. Video Presentation / Call for (intra)-action. In collaboration with Stylianos Benetos aka Oyto Arognos.
WordMord is a work-in-progress which started as part of the seminar „Feminist Practices in the Public Space at the Era of Globalised Technologies“, organized by the Centre of New Media and Feminist Practices in the Public Space in 2019. The project´s starting point are two instances of public violence, misogyny, and homophobia that occurred in Athens in 2018: the brutal murder of the queer activist Zak/Zackie Oh and the femicide of Eleni Topaludi in Greece in 2018. The project explores the relationship between public space, violence, and the gendered body as well as the ways that artistic practice can address and critically examine the sexist and homophobic narratives that circulate in the public sphere. Wordmord poses questions on the relationship between language and violence against vulnerable bodies, which are not accepted by the patriarchal heteronormative regime.
How is violence represented through (online) narratives?
How can we assemble, archive and thusly deconstruct these kinds of speech and the derogatory, sexist, homophobic and transphobic narratives that are being developed?
By seeking subversive and queer feminist methodologies, Wordmord seeks to connect art (poetry/performance/moving image/sound) with queer feminist activism and life.
WordMord poses questions on the relationship between language, technology, trauma and violence against vulnerable bodies, which are not accepted by the patriarchal heteronormative regime. How can we assemble, archive and thusly deconstruct these kinds of speech and the derogatory, sexist, homophobic, ableist and transphobic narratives? By exploring subversive and queer feminist methodologies, WordMord seeks to connect art (poetry/performance/moving image/sound) with queer feminist activism and emancipated life..
We invite you to be part of the open laboratory at the Haus of Statistik on the 6^th of October 2020 from 17.30 to 22.00. Within the context of Glitter and Grief at the Haus der Statistik in Berlin
We will be co-writing and audio-recording derogatory words and narrations. By the means of queer feminist methodologies, we will then distort, destabilize and deconstruct these words and narrations.

Glitter and Grief, recounting Trauma, sharing experience, organizing resictance. Workshops, Performances, Diskussion, and Drag Shows in memory of the murdered LGBTQAI*+ activist Zak Kostopoulos aka Zackie Oh! Organised by the activist groups Soli Tsoli, Nawara and Gay Shame Berlin.

Image: “Another Body Murdered”, 2020. To construct the image Stylianidou used histogram representations of four images that relate to the murders of Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh and Eleni Topaloudi