Krista Papista

Krista Papista is an artist/music-producer, performer, born in Nicosia and based in Berlin. Her current work engages in developing and queering, politically induced, reinvented versions of history, through music, performance and film. She explores the way in which the manifestation of Greek, Middle Eastern & Balkan folklore and computerised punk, can act as subversive counterpoints to homogeneous, nationalist narratives.

Her latest album “Fucklore” is an anarchic, musical and conceptual re-interpretation of notions of folklore; it deals with the suppressed narratives of murdered migrant women in the Mediterranean, paying a tribute to the lives of Livia, Elena, Maricar, Mary Rose, Sierra, Aryan and Asmitta, who were brutally murdered by an army officer in Cyprus between 2016 and 2018. 

"Sonnenallee” is one of the thirteen tracks in Fucklore; its material is the sonic environment of a place at a particular moment: A street in Berlin "Sonnenallee avenue" that is the heart of the city’s Middle Eastern community beating to the sound of dabke music blasted from cars after the Ramadan. Papista lives parallel to this street, the song is a response to the street’s soundscape and this it's an indicative of how she works: in relation to places and in defiance of the mainstream, queering traditions and customs, which she seeks to re-invent.