the ΕΛ gene
girls: Aposmini, Smaragda, Xena
34es (EN: Tritotetartes, GR: Τριτοτέταρτες, meaning third/fourth-rate girls) is a post-punk, post-internet, post-avant-drag queer (the queer queer) collective from Greece.
2014-2017
Formed in 2014 by three “second-rate” friends from childhood all raised in the small town of Katerini near Thessaloniki, Greece. The 34es project consists of multiple personas invading social media with human avatars, reptilians, mermaids and other creatures; each persona aspires to consume and reproduce the current cultural landscape’s trend for the multi-dimensional aspect of every field: multimedia, multidisciplinary, multi-conceptual, live art, sometimes opera, sometimes soap-opera, sometimes live-art-soap-opera-multi-extravaganza! 34es addresses issues of non-conformity, comfort, community, normativity, trash ♥, drag, religion, gender-bending, likes, youtubing, haters, fashion, lifestyle, western medicine, conspiracy theories, “it doesn't sell unless it's #sexy #masculine #fit #peace”, live your myth in Greece.
[ ... ] tritotetartes have been part of Sound Acts in different forms since its beginning, from appearing in impromptu happenings to staging grotesque TV-show performances. Refusing to be mainstream and take their cues from RuPaul's Drag Race, Tritotetartes do not strive for glamour and flawless entertainment, but rather for decay, the grotesque and the self-referential. Their mixture of monstrous appearances, dark sense of humour, radical anti-nationalist politics and an equal love for trashy greek music and high-brow opera delights as much as alienates. (by: https://www.soundacts.com/tritotetartes-34es.html )
korinos homo beach, katerini greece
Amazons live here
if you wanna enter, get some hormones
Sex-worker girlfriends
and plus-size beauties
if you wanna enter, get some hormones
Sex-worker girlfriends
and plus-size beauties
*song 10'μαζονες
You came amid the cold night and said it's hot
you took out your shirt and you were horny
You told me you had a boyfriend but I was not listening fascinated by your huge belly
I do not want to see you again but I want to be inside you
the hair through the tight checkered shirt so horny wanting it so but not being allowed to
Why are you, are you a monogamous Bear hibernating sexually
deep inside I wouldn’t want you to be so hot but it’s not my fault they taught you all wrong.
You came by here again and said it's hot Sweat on the big fat ass imprinted
You told me about a closed relationship but I was not listening i was fascinated by your big thighs
I do not want to see you…
You're, you’re a monogamous Bear with a sexy but heteronormative snout
deep inside I wouldn’t want you to be this
but it’s not my fault that fatness is so sexy
so so so so so sexy!
Before I go shopping to the flea market
Suddenly as I’m walking
I face a pet shop
Jesus, what bird is that
I want it as an ornament
Can’t be without feathers
In the china cabinet I want a parrot
Silly exotic bird
The neighbors yell
They mess with me all the time
But they don’t understand
What it’s like to have a birdy
You need to be a tough man
I only tell you “Cross”
So I got a parrot
You can take a hunting rifle
What fault is it of the dog
What fate is in store for it
I better take it from you
It’ll hang out even with a parrot
Parrot
Suddenly as I’m walking
I face a pet shop
Jesus, what bird is that
I want it as an ornament
Can’t be without feathers
In the china cabinet I want a parrot
Silly exotic bird
The neighbors yell
They mess with me all the time
But they don’t understand
What it’s like to have a birdy
You need to be a tough man
I only tell you “Cross”
So I got a parrot
You can take a hunting rifle
What fault is it of the dog
What fate is in store for it
I better take it from you
It’ll hang out even with a parrot
Parrot
Two peacocks I took yesterday
They had perfect tails
The house got filled with feathers
Cronos and Aphrodite
I walk them in the yard
We drink bird food tea
They are jealous of the relationship
Between feathery beings
The neighbors yell
They mess with me all the time
But they don’t understand
What it’s like to have a birdy
I put golden Lenor
On my wig to be washed
The parrot shat on it
The bird is innocent
Parrot
They had perfect tails
The house got filled with feathers
Cronos and Aphrodite
I walk them in the yard
We drink bird food tea
They are jealous of the relationship
Between feathery beings
The neighbors yell
They mess with me all the time
But they don’t understand
What it’s like to have a birdy
I put golden Lenor
On my wig to be washed
The parrot shat on it
The bird is innocent
Parrot
(What the hell, are these chicken fleas on these feathers?)
(Parrot)
You try to be manly
They taught you so and you swallowed it
I’m telling you, get a parrot
Become real for a moment
They tell you become a real man
Normality and boring
Babe, get a parrot
Shiny really true bird
Parrot
Get a parrottttttt
ΨΥΤΤΑΛΕΙΑ
by filtig + 34es , video filtig
2 ...
You are Hellene, we are all hellenes
The only nation without toxic waste
You are Hellene, you're my greek lover
We have the best olive oil in the world
Buy me greek food, manaraki
Take me to bouzoukia and we'll dance syrtaki
Turkish coffee, Hellene coffee
Serbian Romanian Bulgarian coffee
It's all the same, who cares really
Anyway let's call it post-Ottoman coffee...
You are Hellene, we are all hellenes
The only nation without toxic waste
You are Hellene, you're my greek lover
We have the best olive oil in the world
Buy me greek food, manaraki
Take me to bouzoukia and we'll dance syrtaki
Turkish coffee, Hellene coffee
Serbian Romanian Bulgarian coffee
It's all the same, who cares really
Anyway let's call it post-Ottoman coffee...
In Sound Acts 2016, Athens, Cognac With Smaragda was a 2-hour multimedia performance talk show, tackling greekness, religion, fashion, identity, high culture ,gossip shows etc.
It was never finished as the greeek police intervened after a tip from a local resident about 'homosexual behaviour' in the venue.
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(“On Friday, September 21, 2018 Zak Kostopoulos, an activist of the LGBTIQ+ movement, HIV positive, antifascist and drag queen (Zackie Oh), was brutally assassinated in the centre of Athens, Greece, in public view. Zak's murder was instigated by “outraged citizens” with the tolerance and complicity of officers of the Greek Police. [...])
34es improvisation of agony, Sound Acts, Athens Festival 2017
Smaragda's funeral, Olympus Landfill Katerini, Greece
34es and filtig, video filtig/foukis
Save Us From AvantGarde , 2014
34es webpage press below:
Save us from Queer, 2018