Behind the library lies a myth: legend tells of a gigantic, ageless, gender-fluid chimeric creature named Fluffy. This being roams from space to space, devouring books and digesting them into knowledge through its many fuzzy burrows. With landscapes of pillow-like fur, slick vinyl, and a cast of whimsical, monstrous beings—the Dragon Princess, the Hairy Fairy, the Bearded Beauty, among others—this cuddly beast hungers for new friends, food for thought, and moments of love, hugs, and tenderness.
Fluffy Library is a space for collective experiences, where multiple subjectivities vibrate together immersed in the fluidity and coziness of soft fluff. It is for those of us who wish their fairy tales had been a little more adventurous and are ready to explore alternative narratives of gender, sexuality, and interspecies co-existence. How good of a grasp can we get of the uncanny and how much tenderness can we give or gather from it? The library-installation features a curated collection of books on sexuality, queerness, and gender, inviting the audience to cuddle up, roll around, and immerse themselves in a soft, fluffy universe.
Through workshops, events, and collaborations with artists, educators, and activist collectives, Fluffy Library seeks to build bridges between art, radical pedagogy, and social activism. It aims to serve as a gathering space for diverse audiences—centering children, families of all kinds, and queer people. The workshops, curated by the artist and co-organized with educators, activists, and queer collectives, include the first-ever “Drag for Kids” workshop in Greece, where four Athenian drag queens led children (ages 4–8) and their parents through interactive performances and puppetry exploring inclusion, self-expression, empathy, and coexistence. The project also featured a special curation of events and performances in collaboration with artists, musicians, publishers, and collectives such as Queer Ink, The Political Fatties, and Burning Eye Books—offering cozy evenings of absurd storytelling, poetry slams, queer film screenings, girl-power music nights, performances exploring disability, as well as installations and artist residencies.
Invited Collaborators:
Lykourgos Porfyris
Eggs And Legs
Bitchy 1.0.1
The Political Fatties
Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley
Natasha Lall
Curated by Girls
PapiTheDog TV
SoAnneFair
Myrto Vratsanou
The Special Elementary School & Kindergarten for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Lykovrysi – Pefki
Academic Support and Accessibility Unit for Students with Disabilities Art programme co-ordinator: Ourania Anastasiadou, artist & teaching staff of A.S.F.A
Theatrical Group of Deaf "Crazy Colors": Merkouri Elli Rikkou Maria, Artists: Katsaras Panagiotis, Remoundou Tatiana, Deaf Sign Language Teacher: Isaris Nikos , Main Greek Sign Language Interpreter: Georgopoulou Kiki
Genderhood, Nicky Panteliou and Sophia Konstantopoulou
Drag for Kids and Let’s Be Unicorns, Kangela Tromokratisch, Space Manifesto and GingerΈλα
Burning Eye Books with Thommie Gillow, Deanna Rodger, Nadia Malik, Sally Jenkinson, and Liv Torc, hosted by Shagufta K.
Queen of Pom Poms
Evets:
Mum’s The World
The Real Athens Queer DIY
Vulnerable Monsters
Rhinestone Cowboi
Grlz Live Acts
Fluffy and its friends break the silence
Vulnerable Fluffy Monsters
HOPEPUNK
Fluffy with Hraklis Poua-Roz
Fluffy In Love
Deviant Monsters
Fluffy Residency: Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz Disley
Drag for Kids
Drag Queen Story Time
Supported by:
NEON Grants
Athens World Book Capital 2018
Unesco
Athens Culture Net
ATOPOS cvc
Arnolfini Center for Contemporary Arts, Bristol
Selected Press:
https://awol.com.au/fluffy-cute-library-greece/64449
https://www.bristolwomensvoice.org.uk/fluffy-library-at-the-arnolfini/
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/greece/articles/this-fluffy-exhibition-in-athens-is-an-instagram-dream
https://www.huckmag.com/article/athens-lgbt-activism
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-museum-thats-going-out-of-its-way-to-make-you-queasy/
https://www.protothema.gr/city-stories/article/808780/to-fluffy-library-mias-25hronis/
https://www.savoirville.gr/i-pio-fluffy-vivliothiki-tou-kosmou/
https://www.kathemeragoneis.com/paichnidi-ki-exereynisi-mesa-sto-fluffy-library/
https://popaganda.gr/art/fluffy-library/
https://www.provocateur.gr/out-about/16187/h-pio-xnoydwth-bibliothhkh-brisketai-sthn-athhna/
https://beater.gr/poios-den-thelei-na-vuliaksei-sti-gounini-agkalia-tou-fluffly/
https://www.savoirville.gr/i-pio-fluffy-vivliothiki-tou-kosmou/
https://diastixo.gr/epikaira/eidiseis/10968-xnoudwth-vivliothiki-anagnwsh
https://parallaximag.gr/life/pio-chnoudoti-vivliothiki-se-perimenei-stin-ellada
https://www.cityofathens.gr/event/chnoydoti-vivliothiki-fluffy-library-to-textme_lab-sas-kaloyn-anagnoseis-sta-oria-tis-fantasias-plaisio-tis-diorganosis-athina-2018-pagkosmia-proteyoysa-vivlioy-dimoy-athinaion/
https://www.tanea.gr/2018/05/23/lifearts/flafi-i-megali-xnoydwti-agkalia-kai-ta-biblia-tis/
https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/politismos/mia-chnoydoti-vivliothiki-stin-athina/
https://el.ozonweb.com/ozon-news/events/fluffy-love-%CF%84%CE%BF-fluffy-library-agiou-valentinou
https://www.debop.gr/events/mia-xnoudoti-vivliothiki-sto-kedro-tis-polis
https://www.lifo.gr/culture/eikastika/ena-gigantiaio-hnoydoto-plasma-ehei-kanei-katalipsi-se-mia-bibliothiki-sto-kentro
https://atopos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AEGEAN-BLUE-MAGAZINE-JAN-FEB-2019.pdf
https://www.athensvoice.gr/politismos/vivlio/483736/yparhei-mia-hnoydoti-kai-roz-vivliothiki-stin-athina/
https://atopos.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2018.06.07_ATHINORAMA_SEL.pdf
https://www.kathimerini.gr/culture/arts/965766/diavazontas-parea-me-ton-roz-gorgono/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/city-breaks/33059-athens-2018-world-book-capital-visit-a-fluffy-library-in-the-city-center.html
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