AMOQA is an hybrid space for the research and promotion of arts and studies on sexuality and gender. It hosts special evenings and festivals of performance, screenings of documentaries on gender politics, as well as experimental queer films, technology workshops, lectures on gender topics, queer music gigs and more. At the same time, it has initiated the building of an LGBTQI+ archive, bringing together collections, artworks, zines, interviews, films, photography etc., in an attempt to trace a cartography of greek LGBTQI+ movements. AMoQA acts as a meeting point for the networking of researchers, activists and artists that work on body politics, aiming at the creation of new projects as well as the exchange of ideas and thoughts.

During her Placement Maria curated the performance “When File Found meets Quimera Rosa” hosted by the Berlin art house "SomoS". It was presented in the context of the Fixation group show on the nude body in art cinema.

The performance articulated by an extended arm connects two DIY tattoo machines - one tattooing the real skin and the other making hole-lines in a vinyl. The tattoo machine serves as a vehicle of information in noise, generating visual and audible scars that make up the findable file (ff). Quimera Rosa is a lab that researches and experiments on body, technology and identities. Their aim is to develop practices able to produce non-natural cyborg identities from a transdisciplinary perspective. They assume Donna Haraway’s notion of cyborg, that defines it as: “chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”

A safe sex date, an evening of noise and gender hacking as an antithesis to the normative complacent melody. Introduction to the event by Shu Lea Cheang.