Constantinopoliad

Constantinopoliad is a collective reading and audio work. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn-out pages in Constantinopoliad, an Epic, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

"My favorite response to this work was an audience member who described it as 'making love to a stranger through a book'. The work invites audiences into a sensual and concrete encounter with Cavafy’s life and poems: fingers making contact with history; illumination revealing images from between the pages; sounds conjuring the ghosts of 19th century Alexandrian cabarets.
With words by sister sylvester, score by Nadah El Shazly, and illustrations by Efrîn Özyetis, Constantinopoliad is a multi-sensory encounter with the past, and with forgotten stories that can haunt us into new imaginings for the present." (sister sylvester)

PRODUCTION 1:
sister sylvester
360 Beach 59th Street
11692 Arverne, United States of America
Tel: +1 9172384433
E-mail: sistersylvester@protonmail.com
Web: https://www.sistersylvester.org
Social Media: @sistersylvester – Instagram

PRODUCTION 2:
Onassis ONX - Jazia Hammoudi
5th Avenue
10062 New York, United States of America
Tel: +1 9177678007
E-mail: jazia@onx.studio
Web: https://www.onx.studio/
Social Media: @onassis.onx - Instagram

PRESS OFFICE:
sister sylvester
360 Beach 59th Street
11692 Arverne, United States of America
Tel: +1 9172384433
E-mail: sistersylvester@protonmail.com