Evangelia Danadaki is an artist working with video, performance and film. Her practice is situated at the crossroads of visual art and theory, exploring the notion of the feminine in relation to subjectivity, affection, and the image. She is currently pursuing a PhD in feminist philosophy at the University of Leeds, in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, as a recipient of the Amanda Burton Scholarship (supervised by Brenda Hollweg and Gail Day). She is Associate Editor at parallax and a Research Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
Education
MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (distinction)
MA in Political Theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (distinction)
BA in Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Selected Group Shows
The Doughnut (W)Hole, The Wrong Biennale, online, 2025
Practice Holds Discovery, East Street Arts, Leeds, UK, 2025
Do electric sheep dream?: The human condition in the era of AI, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2024
TILT Movement of Film Series (screenings), Program: “Girls! Girls! Girls!”, University of Utah, School of Dance, Utah, US, 2024
International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece, 2024
Youths, Space 52, Athens, Greece, 2024
Inspire Project, MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023
International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece, 2023
Art and Design Show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK, 2022
Take me with you Part II, The Koppel Project Hive, London, UK, 2022
Hybrid School, ENSAV La Chambre Gallery, Brussels, 2022
transference.TV, Group show, online, 2021
Borders Art Fair, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy, 2021
Diaries Loosenart International Group Exhibition, Millepiani, Rome, Italy, 2021
Focal Point Group Exhibition, Foundry Art Centre, MO, United States, 2020
Conference Papers
Techne, technology and democratisation: Reading Arendt with Heidegger, Coming to terms with technology: thinking with/in/through Hannah Arendt, The Centre for Ethics and Humanism, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, 23-24 October 2025
I am (not) here for Beckett: Feminizing Beckett, Samuel Beckett Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 June 2025
Matrixial ekphrasis: Sophie Calle through and with Bracha L. Ettinger, ACLA, online, May 29-June 1 2025
Becoming matrixially aware: Griselda Pollock’s reading of Bracha L. Ettinger, Association for Art History, University of York, York, April 9-11 2025
Susan Sontag’s Godot: towards a politics of caring, Beckett and Justice Conference, California State University, Los Angeles, 6-8 June 2024
On natality: The critical function of art in Hannah Arendt, Panhellenic Conference of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10-12 April 2024
A khôra beyond Oedipus, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Palais de congrès de Montréal, 14-17 March 2024
The relational and agonistic dimension of art, Contradictions in the Contemporary World: Politics, Ideology, Society, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 20-22 October 2023
Metramorphoses: A performative model of becoming and the paradigm of Antigone, Performing Space 2023 – Argolida, University of Peloponnese, 7-13 July 2023
Performance as political action: creating public space, Performing Space 2022 – Epidaurus, University of Peloponnese, 27-29 July 2022
System of vision, self-perception and narrative in Ill seen Ill said, Spectral Landscapes: Absence, Trauma and Nationhood, University of Reading, 4-5 November 2021
Presentations
Practicing Anti-Happiness with Luce Irigaray, with Eftihia Mihelakis, Irigaray Works-In-Progress Conference, 5 July 2025, online
On matrixial with-nessing: Reading as aesthetic wondering, with Shiran Greenberg, “The I that writes: auto-theory as poetic attention”, Nordic Summer University, 27-30 March 2025, Turku, Finland
Clouding identity and trans-subjectivization in Beckett, ‘but the clouds...’: Interdisciplinary Seminar, Samuel Beckett Society, 20 September 202, online
Publications
“An inter-subjective narrative: Performing and reforming the self” in Demosthenes Agrafiotis: Transverse drifts by Laura Dodson, éditions L’Harmattan, 2025
“Performance as political action: The creation of public sphere and the recreation of the self” in Performing Space, Nisos, 2023
“Politics of art in Cornelius Castoriadis: creating new common worlds” in Aesthetics and Politics, archiDOCT, 11(2), 2023
Awards
Amanda Burton Scholarship awarded by the University of Leeds, 2024-2028.