current and forthcoming
“The Pythian School of Futures,” podcast (author/narrator), AVTO, Istanbul (TR)
“Ancient Greek World: The Birth of Contemporaneity”, educational program (lecturer), Tristan Hoare, London (UK)
“Understanding Contemporary Art (World)”, educational program (lecturer), Tristan Hoare, London (UK)
2021
“Art in Space,” reading group session on “Suprapolitics in Aerocene,” (author/guest) Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (RU)
“The Narrative Layers of Delphic Omphalos,” lecture, the Institute for the Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean at University of Hamburg (DE)
“Supranormal, Queer, Unorthodox: Alternative Ideographs of Power in Hesiod and Their Aesthetic Agency,” lecture, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens (GR)
“Anticipatory Mythographies for Shared European Futures: Beyond Verticality, Patriarchy and Misogyny”, lecture (jointly with Dr Michael Haldrup), 11th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Bergen (NO)
past
2020
“Ars Homo-Erotica,” symposium (co-convener), Birkbeck College, University of London (UK)
“Birzhastation,” (co-curator), 2nd Tbilisi Architecture Biennial “What Do We Have in Common”, Tbilisi (GE)
“Cyber-PiraMMMida,” PPV online pavilion (co-curator) at the (postponed) 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice (IT)
“Hesiod’s Theogony: The Epic Poem as a Political Tractate,” lecture, School of History, Classics & Archaeology of University of Edinburgh (UK)
“The Epic Poem as a Political Tractate,” lecture, Aesthetics Conference 2020, University of St Andrews (UK)
#ArtistsSupportPledge, group exhibition (as Avenir Institute), Wizard Gallery, London (UK) & Milan (IT)
“Seminar #0 - (Re)Introduction: Queering Facets,” Queer Weird Other online seminar (co-convenor), University of Edinburgh (UK)
“Corona and the Rapidly Changing Political Landscape in Europe: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Universalising Biopolitics in Flux,” talk/seminar, Conjectural Futures Topic Day, Berlin (DE)
“Ancient Delphi as the Oikumene’s Centre of Futures Studies,” lecture, 14th London Ancient Science Conference 2020, London (UK)
“#DrillyforMayor,” debate and launch of the campaign (co-host), UCL Institute of Archaeology, London (UK)
“The Face of Power,” Avenir Institute’s artist talk, London Art Fair 2020 (booth G06), London (UK)
“Queering Power in Hesiod’s Theogony and Material History of Ancient Greece,” lecture, UCL Lyceum Seminar, London (UK)
2019
“Encyclopaedia of Unrealised Futures - Escaping the Everlasting Present,” lecture-workshop, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
“A Fish Rots from the Head Down,” exhibition by Avenir Institute in the programme of 2nd WAS Biennale “We Respect Your Privacy?”, Notting Hill, London (UK)
“The Perils of Perversion in The Age of Populism,” a reading group with Keti Chukhrov (co-convenor), UCL, London (UK)
“Perverted Utopia: The Politics of Fictional Institutions and Other Communist Pyramids,” a workshop with Gluklya Pershina (co-convener), UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (UK)
“On Art iInstitutions and The Future and Power Dynamics in Contemporary Art and Society,” interview for Surviving Art podcast, London (UK)
“The Face of Power,” open studio of Avenir Institute during Frieze London, Elephant&Castle Experimental Space, London (UK)
“Future(s) of Democracy?”, installation (co-curator), Vienna Design Week, Vienna (AT)
“Introduction of Aeropolitics,” lecture, ”Aeropolitical Manifesto,” performance, “Towards Aeropolis,” un-tethering think tank session, Aerocene Foundation Symposium & Festival at Olympiaberg, Munich (DE)
“The Trial of Zeus,” a performative dialogue; “Queering Museum: From Singular Static Archeological Object to Plural Dynamic Future-Potent Thing,” co-curator, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen (DK)
“Communities and Spaces,” group exhibition (as Avenir Institute), Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (RU)
“PPV #9: Defining the Elephant in the Room,” co-convenor, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (UK)
“The Palace of Ritual,” co-curator; “The Penelopiad Project” & “The Pythian Games of Futures,” lecture-performances, in the context of the 58th Biennale Arte “May You Live in Interesting Times,” Palazzo Dona, Venice (IT)
“Other Ways to Pervert the Power Vertical,” co-curator, Mimosa House, London (UK)
“Workshop: Towards a Power Horizontal,” co-convenor, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), London (UK)
“Storming,” installation of Aleksandr Shishkin-Hokusai, co-curator, London Art Fair (UK)
“Theory and Practice of Political Risk: the Case of Contemporary Russia,” lecture, UCL Social Sciences Department, London (UK)
2018
“Avenirologic Hymns,” choreographed performance embodied by Macklin Kowal, Sub Rosa Space, Athens (GR)
“Queering as Method of Revealing Possible in Futures,” lecture, Roskilde University, Copenhagen (DK)
“SOMEWHERE: cosmic imaginaries towards new interplanetary politics,” panel talk (speaker), Art Basel, Miami (US)
“Dramaturgia: on Russian Machiavellianism as exportable political strategy,” lecture, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (UK)
“Transdisciplinarity for Futures Design,” lecture, New School, New York (US)
Open Foresight Conjectural Futures Conference, Silent Green, Berlin (DE)
IMPACT18: Matter in Movement, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)
“Anticipatory Mythography and Critical Ideography for Alternative Futures: The Case of Medusa,” lecture-workshop, Institute of Art and Art Theory/University of Cologne (DE)
“Avenirologic Hymn to Gaia,” performance, Circuits and Currents, Athens (GR)
“Queering Delphi: The Sanctity of the Think Tank,” lecture for Bremen University of Arts, Delphi (GR)
“Methods of Transdisciplinary Research and Design: Comparative Anticipatory Mythography,” International Curator Residency, resident curator, Fire Station, Dublin (IE)
Projekt Bauhaus Werkstatt / Datatopia, invited participant and speaker, at Floating University/Theory of Architecture at KIT, Berlin (DE)
“Fashion: from a Medium of Visual Political Culture to a Creative Industry and Back Again,” speaker, Flanders DC/City of Antwerp (BE)
Re-directing East Curatorial Seminar, resident curator, U-jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (PL)
“The Diplomatic Mission of State of Noland in the United Kingdom,” installation/durational performance; Victoria & Albert Museum, London (UK)
“The Diplomatic Mission of State of Noland in Russia,” exhibition, lecture-performance; Fabrica CCI, Moscow (RU)
“Queering Mythography for Alternative Futures,” lecture performance and creative writing workshop; Mimosa House, London (UK)
“Metamorphosis into Post-Human Statehood: from X-land to No-Land,” public talk, PRIMER 2018, San Francisco (US)
“State of Noland: on potent futures post- sovereignty, nationalism & imperialism,” public talk, Transnationalisms, Ljubljana (SI)
”Futures Theogony,” a narrative opera in 3 acts by Avenir Institute, Balkan Kino, Athens (GR)
“Queering Theogony: Collective Anticipatory Writing” (workshop) as a part of “Europe was taken by a Bull,” Communitism International Residency, Athens (GR)
“The Queer Futures: a Prologue,” reading group, The Mimosa House, London (UK)
“Queering Theogony: Critical Reading Group,” research group, lectures and film programme curator and author, National Archeological Museum (intervention) & Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA), Athens (GR)
“Queering Theogony: towards Mythology for Alternative Futures,” lecture, Romantso, Athens (GR)
2017
“Tell Your Story Right: Brand Narrative for Fashion Tech,” public talk, Fashhack, London (UK)
“Mythology for Queer Futures,” lecture, Circuits and Currents, Athens (GR)
“This Storm is What We Call Progress”, lecture-manifesto in the context of opening of the total installation “Storming” by Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, London (UK)
“Storming,” total installation by Alexander Shishkin-Hokusa (co-curator), Shtager Gallery, London (UK)
“(Im)Perfect Futures,”, panel talk (convener and speaker), Ural Industrial Biennal of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (RU)
“documenta: Learning from Balashikha,” group exhibition (co-curator), Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow (RU)
“(Im)Perfect Futures: utopia as escape, inspiration, critique and danger,” panel talk (convener and speaker), Cosmoscow, Moscow (RU)
“I’ve Got the Power!” performative talk show with TOK curatorial collective (anchor), HIAP, Helsinki (FI)
“The Bitter Plums of Chelsea Manning: An Opera in Three Acts,“ with Deyson Gilbert, Gabriel Francisco Lemos and Tom N, Delfina Foundation, London (UK)
”Temple of Futures Thinking,“ exhibition, Elephant & Castle, London (UK)
“Futures: Plural, Genderless & Rhizomatic,” speaker, PeclersParis, Paris (FR)
”too much as not enough, vol. 1,“ group exhibition (curator), Elephant & Castle, London (UK)
”State of Noland,“ lecture-performance, Centre culturel Bruegel, Brussels (BE)
”Potentiality in Grey Zones,” lecture by Avenir Institute, Hotel Bloom!, Brussels (BE)
”Brazil and Russia: New Aesthetico-Political Realities,“ speaker, Tapera Taperá, Sao Paulo (BR)
”On the political & curatorial in the context of contemporary culture,“ speaker, Atelier Fidalga, Sao Paulo (BR)
”Imperialism post-ex-ante,“ lecture-performance by Avenir Institute, Projeto Fidalga, Sao Paulo (BR)
”Against the Future,“ the solo exhibition of Avenir Institute, Projeto Fidalga (Paulo Reis Residency), Sao Paulo (BR)
”Do You Remember the Future?“ lecture by Avenir Institute, Hotel Bloom, Brussels (BE)
”Fauna for Futures,” workshop by Avenir Institute and Agence Futur (with Dr. Maya van Leemput), Enough Room for Space, Brussels (BE)
2016
”Moirai Realität,“ multimedia public installation (feat. ”Do You Remember the Future?“ music mix by Filthy French & Avenir Institute), Kleistpark, Berlin (DE)
”Post-VR: Society and Politics,“ lecture, Futurice, London (UK)
”Be a Guest in My Possible Future,“ group exhibition (curator), 1st WAS Biennale, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow (RU)
”Critical Geopolitics,“ installation/sculpture, Moscow (RU)
”Game of Futures #2,” engaged art project, Critical Mass 4th season, St. Petersburg (RU)
”Subjective Scenarios: Youth, Public Space and Mindsets,“ lecture, Taiga Creative Platform, St. Petersburg (RU)
”Facing the Future: EU-Russia“, round table panelist, BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
”Bureau for Public Insecurities,“ group exhibition in 4 independent spaces (co-curator with Caroline Carrion), Vila Madalena & Pinheiros, Sao Paulo (BR)
”Game of Futures #1,“ multimedia installation by Avenir Institute, Sao Paulo Bureau for Public Insecurities (BR)
”Present Visuality and Thingness of Trans-Ethnography in the Context of Unrealised Future of the Past,“ research project with METASITU, The State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (RU)
”The Epistemology of Border: Futures of bio-geo-techno-Politics,“ lecture-performance, Biennale Urbana & The Nationless Pavilion, Venice (IT)
”Aesthetics of Power,“ group exhibition (curator), ikonoTV Berlin (DE)
”Debates on Division,“ performance (video) with Gluklya, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (NL)
”Bird, stone, water: from dialectical simulacra to reification of subjectivity," lecture-performance (with Adrijana Gvozdenovic), FAAP, Sao Paulo (BR)
”The artist as curator & the curator as artist: flattening hierarchies into horizontal plateaus of ‘potential’ through collaboration," lecture, De Brakke Grond Arts Centre, Amsterdam (NL)
”Sightseeing," group exhibition, de Brakke Grond Arts Centre, Amsterdam (NL)
“Do You Speak Synergy?” group exhibition (curator), Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels (BE)
“How to understand contemporary art critically?” speaker, BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels (BE)
2015
“Starbucks franchises personally managed by Joseph Stalin and the other avenirs of the Internet”, art & theory workshop at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg (DE)
“The world as it’s seen by (Russia) and (the EU)” and “Recontextualisation is Upcycling,” “Marres Current #3,”, group exhibition, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (NL)
“Alternative socio-political system,” installation, Off Biennale Cairo ‘Something Else’, Cairo (EG)
“Connection lost. Isolation as a choice in the Montenegrin contemporary art,” speaker (with Natalija Vujošević, Adrijana Gvozdenović and Lenka Djorojevic), Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale “All the World’s Futures,” Venice (IT)
“State(?)-after-State: Future Potentiality of Post-Nation,” curator, art and theory laboratory, The Nationless Pavilion, the 56th Venice Biennale Arte ‘All the World’s Futures’, Venice (IT)
“Avenir Manifesto,” lecture-performance, Creative Time Summit at the the 56th Venice Biennale “All the World’s Futures”, Venice (IT)
“The Game of Roles,” group exhibition, ParisTexasAntwerp, Antwerp (BE)
“Untitled: Chapter 2,” programme of performances (co-curator with Halim Madi), The Louvre, Paris (FR)
“Francis,” artist-curator in collaborative project, Poppositions Alternative Fair, Brussels (BE)
“Untitled: Chapter 1,” programme of performances (co-curator with Halim Madi), Matilha Cultural, Sao Paulo (BR)
“Love will tear us apart,” group exhibition (artist), The HAL, Antwerp (BE)
“The Anatomy of Modern Leviathan,” lecturer-performance, Stadslimiet, Antwerp (BE)
2014
“Art, society and politics: Russian ‘soft power’ in recent history,” lecture, KU Leuven, Leuven (BE), 2014