Seminaria: Book Presentation & Discussion

This Thursday November 7, 8pm, Hyper Hypo and Mpataria publications invite you to a very special presentation of the (already legendary) book Seminaria by Cyber Daddi. Mochi (Mpataria), Iokasti Disgkusty (a Berlin-based performer) and Vasiliki Lazaridou (screenwriter, director) will participate in the presentation with talks, discussions and readings.

The presentation will held be mainly in Greek.

A few words about the publication from friends and collaborators of Cyber Daddi:

In this beautifully didactic and thoroughly scruffy little book, Cyber Daddi -a.k.a. Vassilia Kaga- has collected thoughts, experiences, narratives, traumas, hypotheses and promises. (…) The dynamics of these texts are based on their unapologetically performative discourse (…). They generously give us their deconstructed notes as an attempt to self-document their own process.
Mochi – Head of Mpataria publications

(…) It’s Vassilia’s diary, their “memoirs”. They always write very personally, not afraid to expose themself. (Well, they’re very afraid.) But it’s also our diary, of all our conversations, of our obsessive jokes, of our comedowns. The gaze, the desire, growing up with archetypal Greek parents, mourning, immigration, analysis, queers abroad, life online, the lockdowns, the return, wrestling with bipolar. The life I didn’t live. Or did I finally live it?
holistic.mum – Psychotherapist

(…) Clearly there is no single theme that describes this book – after all, what fragmented creator would have it any other way. A farewell to mourning? Many languages dedicated to the weakness of one? The pleasure of creation? Love in the years of the image? Which image? Which one specifically? Are they texts about all that was, perhaps no longer is, but will be? Are they all of that in one? Are they something else? (…) They’re basically nothing specific and that’s also fucking cool.
Lemonia – Social researcher

BIO
Cyber Daddi is Vassilia Kaga: a fragmented subject and, occasionally, an object. When they are not working as a proletarian for the art world, they curate independent exhibitions that seek to recreate collective moments of fleeting (queer) utopias. They also write and perform poems – rants as well as spend time behind, or sometimes in front of, cameras shooting (very experimental) queer films. They are a recipient of the ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship Program 2020/21 and since 2022 they have been studying Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Jacques Lacan though is her only love.