Academic writing is often accompanied by a cycle of anxiety, self-doubt, blocking, emotional breakdown, where things eventually unravel, arguments, sources and meanings converge, the thesis, article, book is written, and a great sigh of relief leaves escapes its writers.
Typically, the texts we share publicly are ready, neat, clean of notes and edits and all the process that reflects the stress and doubt of writing them. In this installation, I wish instead to remain in the stage between the written and the unwritten, the stage of notes and drafts, where nothing is quite formed or makes sense yet, and to have fun with it, to share it; to bring these texts into focus and see them again as something other than sources of anxiety and failure.
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Alkistis Lara Papapadaki is a visual artist based in Athens. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, in the Visual Arts Department (BFA) and at Birkbeck, University of London, in Gender and Sexuality Studies (MA). Since 2022 she is a PhD candidate at the Visual Arts Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her artistic practice focuses on food as an object of study and visual medium. The subject of her doctoral research is the practice of bulimia, approaching it through the theoretical and methodological frameworks of queer theory and disability and madness studies. Since 2021 she is a member of AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts), a space for the promotion of arts and politiccs on sexuality and gender, which has been operating in Athens since 2016.
Her research interests include queer theory, disability and madness studies, arts research, pedagogy and food studies.
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Image by Alkistis Lara Papadaki