Curation
My curation strategies often deal with historical/archival material, usually around queer/LGBT and 20th c. avant-garde movements. I am also interested in showcasing the artistic practice of DIY scenes and outsider art. Over the years, I have curated more than fifty events and collaborated with a variety of bodies such as the Freud Museum, the Athens School of Fine Arts, Atopos CVC, the Greek Film Archive, the Athens Festival of Queer Performance etc.Lala
Queer DIY house, 2022-
A DIY self-organised project that aims to reclaim queer aesthetics from their mainstreamisation in Athens and to create a space for creativity and experiment, research and archiving of avant-garde and underground arts. There, I frequently curate film nights with historical queer classics, as well as performance events.200 Years of Suffocation
Online exhibition, 2021
The largest anti-1821 exhibition of the year made by subjects and talked about subjects who suffocate within the framework of greek orthodox patriotism and use creative means to express their dissatisfaction. Featured in a number of tabloids and sued by a religious organisation.Psychoanalysis “Post-truth”: US Election Special
Exhibition, Freud Museum, 2020
An interdisciplinary digital conference that brought together critical, artistic and psychoanalytic interventions to bear on the question of politics and public discourse in the midst of the apparent collapse of trust in scientific and authoritative knowledge.Athens Festival of Queer Performance
Festival, FAC & ASFA, 2019
Focusing on the hybrid dimensions of the notion of queer, it presented personal stories and common narratives, multiple truths, hysteria, failure, ridiculousness, togetherness, anti-essentialism as well as intersectionality, pop, political action, DIY, collage, humour and trauma.The Social Contract & its Discontents
Festival, ASFA, 2019
A number of different collectives, initiatives and informal groups were invited to reflect on ideas of togetherness when it comes to political/social ideals and artistic practice.Queer Performance Lab
Installation/performance/happening, Athens School of Fine Arts, 2019
In the context of my candidacy for the position of Performing Arts at ASFA, I presented a hybrid space for the development of ideas and interaction between artists and audience, being constantly open to becoming a happening of any sort.Text Me Lab
Year-long programme, Atopos CVC, 2018-19
Organised under the umbrella of Athens being Unesco World Book capital, the programme featured events to do with visual poetry, word and screen relationships, spoken word, as well as modern linguistic phenomena in online pop culture and new media.The Garden of Dystopian Pleasures
Festival, ASFA, 2018
A showcase of performance, talks, workshops, screenings etc on notions of post-truth cultures and the return of reactionary propaganda. “Can we rethink identity politics?”, “can we repackage hope as sexy?”Film & Poetry Symposium
Symposium, Greek Film Archive & Atopos CVC, 2018
A 3-day symposium on the relationship between text, language, writing, speech and the moving image, one of the central aspects of my PhD research.With beloved guests Tom Konyves, Real Wallden, Antoinetta Angelidi.Glam Slam!
Variety night, Cabaret Voltaire, 2018
A wild cabaret night series of devised theatre, experimental dance & body art, musical-theatre performance, drag show, conceptual art and performance art, burlesque, slam-poetry & hip-hop, interactive happenings.On Clarity between Velocity and Duration
Exhibition, Atopos CVC, 2018
A rare solo showcase of pioneering conceptual art duo Thanasis Chondros and Alexandra Katsiani in Athens. Chondros and Katsiani have been working outside traditional art contexts, using a range of media such as language, sound, spontaneous actions and video since the 1980s.Waiting for the Barbarians
Curated programme, Athens Biennale, 2017-18 (resigned)
A pre-biennale event (later resulting in ANTI), focusing on thematics of othering, exoticisation, neo-colonial concepts, as well as the alt-right, the rise of fascism and overidentification strategies.Documena
Year-long programme, various locations, 2017
A project that sought to respond to how contemporary art production engages with the intense European crisis, coinciding with documenta 14 and intending to examine the latter’s decision to voluntarily relocate itself from Kassel to Athens (“Learning from Athens”).Sound Acts
Festival, KET & Athens Festival, 2015-17
A 3-year research project and annual get-together, showcasing creative couplings between performance art/gesture, sound/music and gender/body/identity.FYTINI
Music label, 2014-19
Greece’s first and only music queer label, it aimed at releasing/promoting works that are at once performative, political, experimental, deconstructive and post-trash.FYTA Biannela
Performance series / installation, Athens Biennale, 2013
An attempt to create a hybrid space, where different sides of the work of FYTA were showcased, together with projects by various chosen creatives that we were interested in and with whom we were in a dialectic discourse / creative dialogue at the time.On Being Sane in Sunny Places
Exhibition, Panke, Berlin, 2012
An exhibition of young Athenian artists in Berlin showcasing work that creates its own self-reflexive modes of playful expression, embracing serendipity, deconstruction, absurdism and irony.PPodd
