Evangelia Danadaki

Profile

I am an artist-researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art and theory with a focus on feminist and queer politics in performance and image-based practices. My practice blends reading and writing with artworking, mobilising play and collective experimentation across performance, video, photography, installation and film.

Drawing on feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis and political theory, I theorise the image as encounter, thinking subjectivity and the image through the feminine. I approach the image as a plural and performative operation, where sharing and transmission potentialities designate modes of appearance that challenge identity mechanisms of recognition. Attentive to the self-based image culture, my PhD explores how art-making and art-viewing might counter binary and identitarian ways of seeing-doing-being, generating new subjectivities of co-becoming.

This PhD is supported by the Amanda Burton Scholarship.

Research interests

My interests include contemporary art and theory; aesthetics and politics; feminist/queer theory; psychoanalysis; political theory; visual culture; essay film; moving image; and contemporary performance practice.

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Qualifications

• MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, UAL
• MA Political Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• BA Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki