APRiCot Garden 2025: Research as Regenerative Practice. Chaosymbiotic Grafting: A Collective Drag Involution by Taka Taka

In this participatory performance, Taka Taka invites us into the symbiochaotic space of dragging as grafting—where binary notions of identity dissolve into "one and a half" bodies. Wearing knits lovingly created by Dimitra (Taka's biological mother who has never witnessed Taka perform), participants become entangled in a living metaphor of alternative kinship systems. Through thread exercises and grafting scores, we collectively subvert not our bodies but the dramaturgical conditions we inhabit. The performance moves from guided chaosymbiotic practices to collective exodus, transforming the space into a site of queer possibility. Drawing on the agricultural technique of grafting, Taka explores how bodies can be sites of multiple inheritances—from rural Greek traditions to Amsterdam's drag family of asylum seekers, sex workers, artists, and trans bodies.

Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos aka Taka Taka during the lecture "Mothers Mothering Mothers" for the Athens Biennial.

About: Taka Taka

About: APRiCot Garden 2025: Research as Regenerative Practice