Alkisti Efthymiou

Alkisti Efthymiou is a writer and anthropologist, invested in discussing the sensibilities of cultural texts on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and affective politics.

She is a Ph.D. candidate at Panteion University’s Department of Social Anthropology (Αthens, Greece). Closely engaging with works of queer/feminist film, her thesis focuses on the cultural politics of love and the critical state of love and intimacy under late capitalism. She holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies and MA in Gender, Society and Politics from Panteion University, as well as an MA in Museum Studies from University College London.

Having worked with several cultural institutions in Greece and abroad (including the Αthens Biennale, documenta 14, and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart), she also tries to comment on (when she can bear it) the conditions of precarity and exhaustion within the art world.

Since 2018, she lives between Αthens and Santiago (Chile), where she participates in various film projects as a result of her doctoral research.

In fall 2020, as writer-in-residence at Οnassis AiR, she was the editor of the books 'Transpirings' and 'Scored Invocations', which are part of the four-volume publication “The School of Infinite Rehearsals: Movements I-IV”.

Alkisti Efthymiou is a participant of The School of Infinite Rehearsals of Οnassis AiR 2020-21 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.