Publications, Lectures, Workshops

https://eap.academia.edu/SotiriosBahtsetzis

Academic articles in refereed journals, conference contributions, and scholarly book chapters

• "Image Acts and Displays: A Semiotic-Phenomenological Approach of Visibility", Proceedings of the XII International Conference on Semiotics, Semiotics Across and In-Between, 28-30/10/2023, Panteion University Athens (pending).
• "The Chronotopia of Installation Art and the Contribution of Media Phenomenology to its Interpretation" [Ο χρονότοπος της εγκατάστασης τέχνης και η συμβολή της διαμεσικής φαινομενολογίας στην ερμηνεία της] Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of Greek Art Historians Society, 31/3– 2/4/2023, National Gallery of Greece (pending).
• "Performance in art installation as situated knowledge [Η επιτέλεση στην εικαστική εγκατάσταση ως τοποθετημένη γνώση]" στο Ζαφειρόπουλος, Θεόδωρος (επιμ.), Εδώ! Τόπος – Τοπίο – Χώρος – Χρόνος, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Τζιόλα, 2023, σελ. 226-243.
• "Deleuze’s Meta-Cinematic Framing: Multimodal Meaning-making in Installation Art", Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics,  Narrativity & Multimodal Communication in the Age of New Media 8:2 (2022): 11-31.
• "Exhibiting the Posthuman: A Dispositive Analysis of the Postmodern Public" Session 5, What Does Media Arts Complexity Wants? 35th CIHA World Congress, Motion: Migrations São Paulo, January 17-21, 2022, Instituto Goethe de São Paulo, Brazil, Proceeding of the 35th World Congress of Art History, Session 5, What Does Media Arts Complexity Wants?, ed. Claudia Mattos Avolese (2023), p. 517-532.
• "Semiocapitalism, Spectacle, Eikonomia, and the Function of Art", Widok: View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture, Nr. 25 (2020): 1-28.
• "Branding images: The anthropotechnics of digital gaming culture" in Semiotics and Visual Communication III: Cultures of Branding, Edited by Evripides Zantides, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, p. 361-376.
• "Image Phenomenology: The Case of Heinrich Wölfflin" ["Η Φαινομενολογία της εικόνας: Η περίπτωση του Heinrich Wölfflin] in Istoria tis Technis. Zitimata Istorias, Methodologias, Istoriografias, Edited by Areti Adamopoulou, Lia Gyioka, Konstantinos Stefanis, Athens: Gutenberg, 2019, p. 45-61.
• "Piet Mondrian and the American Painters of the 1960s: Space and Spectator" [Ο Piet Mondrian και οι αμερικάνοι ζωγράφοι της δεκαετίας του 1960: ο χώρος και ο θεατής] Istoria Tis Technis, v. 8 (Summer 2019): 51-81.
• "Documenta 14 Review", Istoria tis Technis, v. 7 (Summer 2018): 208-219.
• "Künstlerische Utopien und politisch Dystopien des Mittelmeers: Zur kulturpolitischen Konstruktion Griechenlands", Kritische Berichte, 4. 2017: 18-25.
• "Dia-phanous. Medium Phenomenology in Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass" [Δια-φανές: η φαινομενολογία του μέσου στο Μεγάλο Γυαλί του Μαρσέλ Ντυσάν], Αληthεια Journal of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Art, v. 9 (Summer 2017), p. 205-221.
• "From Logocular Anthropotechnics to Posthuman Dispositives: Toward a Manifesto of the Postdiscursive Era", South as a State of Mind # 8, Documenta 14 # 3, 2016, 199-222.
• "The Diaphanous Image: Medium Phenomenology in the Visual Arts" [Η δια-φαίνουσα εικόνα. Η φαινομενολογία του μέσου στην ερμηνεία εικαστικών έργων] Synchrona Themata, Vol. 132-133. Jan-June 2016, 35-45.
• “Democrisis: Notes on the Capitalist Imaginary of Europe” E-Flux Journal, Vol. 57 (09/2014).
• "Platonic Postmodernism. The Politics of Mimesis and Construction" [Πλατωνικός Υπερμοντερνισμός. Οι πολιτικές της Μίμησης και της Κατασκευής], Synchrona Themata, Vol. 125. April-June 2014: 23-32.
• "Tactics of Narration or How to Do Words with Things", Franke, Melanie, Ebeling, Knut (ed.), Erzählen und Wissen: Narrative Strategien in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2013, p. 237-249.
• "Deleuzian Meta-Cinematic Images in Kabakov’s Total Installation", Taban, Carla (ed), Meta- and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013, p. 169-188.
• "Erotic Topology: Gender Dispositivs and Image in Duchamp's The Large Glass" [Ερωτική τοπολογία: Έμφυλη διάταξη και εικόνα στο Μεγάλο Γυαλί του Μαρσέλ Ντυσάν], Αληthεια Journal of Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Art, v. 7 (Spring 2012), p. 251-263.
• "Kittler und die Kunst" (with Joulia Strauss) Ästhetik und Kommunikation, Vol. 158, Year 43. (Fall 2012), p. 181-182.
• "Eikonomia: Notes on Economy and the Labor of Art," in: E-flux Journal, Vol. 35 (5/2012), reprint in: Pavilion #16 Tactics for the Here and Now | special issue on Bucharest Biennale 5.
• "Autonomy, Crisis and Oikonomia: Remarks on Art and Capital" in: Inaesthetics 3 (ed. by Wilfried Dickhoff & Marcus Steinweg), Berlin: Merve, 2012.
•  "Installation als meta-kinematographisches Dispositiv" in: Frohne, Ursula; Haberer Lilian (eds.), Kinematographische Räume in Film und Kunst, Munich: Fink, 2012, p. 18-39.
• "The Time That Remains: How to Repeat the Avant-Garde" in: E-flux Journal, Vol. 30 (12/2011).
• "The Time That Remains: On Contemporary Nihilism" in: E-flux Journal, Vol. 28, (10/2011).
• "Image Wars: The Athens Riots as Dispositif and Event" in: Afterimage The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 38, No 1 (2010), pp. 19-24.
• "Death and Image. A psychoanalytic approach based on the work of Francis Bacon" [Θάνατος και εικόνα. Μια ψυχαναλυτική προσέγγιση με αφορμή το έργο του Φράνσις Μπέικον], Entefktirio, 86 (July-September) 2009, pp. 75-80
• "Castles from Glass: The critique of modernist architecture of the mid-wars period in the work of Kurt Schwitters" [Γυάλινα Κάστρα: Η κριτική της πρωτοποριακής αρχιτεκτονικής του μεσοπολέμου στο έργο του Kurt Schwitters], Conference "Architect Hans Poelzig and German Expressionism" Center for Mediterranean Architecture, 14.3.2009

• "Testing the Public. New Public Art in Greece", in: Tan, Pelin, Boynik, Sezgin (eds.), Kamusal alan-Guncel sanat, texts by: Ali Akay, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Claire Bishop, Sezgin Boynik, Rosalyn Deutsche, Mika Hannula, Hou Hanru, Erden Kosova, Sven Lütticken, Jacques Ranciere, Gerald Raunig, Simon Sheikh, Pelin Tan, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Istanbul, Santralistanbul, 2008, ISBN 978-605-399-018-5
• "The Art Production of Women Graduates at ASFA and the Woman-Art Theme" [Η εικαστική παραγωγή γυναικών αποφοίτων της ΑΣΚΤ σε σχέση με ζητήματα της προβληματικής "γυναίκα-τέχνη] Symposium "Women Graduates at Athens School of Fine Arts 1980-2004", Athens School of Fine Arts, 9.11.2007
• "On the Cinematic Conditions of Installation Art. Notes on hermeneutics of the Visual" [Οι κινηματογραφικές συνθήκες της εγκατάστασης τέχνης. Σχόλια για μια ερμηνευτική της θέασης] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 3rd Greek Art History Conference, 2-4.11.2007
• "From modern Art Exhibition to Contemporary Installation: The Identity of the Artist in Transition" [Από την έκθεση μοντέρνας τέχνης στη σύγχρονη εγκατάσταση: η καλλιτεχνική ιδιότητα σε μετάβαση] Athens School of Fine Arts, 2rd Greek Art History Conference, 25-27.11.2005 2. Art History Conference in Greece
• "Étant donnés“: zwischen der Skopisierung des Begehrens und der Feminisierung des Bildraumes [Given: between Scopizing Desire and Feminizing the Image Space]", In: Tout-Fait: Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal (2005)
• "The Real of the unrealized" [Το Πραγματικό του απραγματοποίητου], in: 
• "Von Blinden, Leuchttürmen und Wahrheitsfrauen. Marcel Duchamps Étant Donnés. Über Wahrnehmung und Repräsentation am Beginn der Postmoderne" (On blind men, lighthouses and women of truth. Marcel Duchamp`s Given, a study on perception and representation in the beginning of postmodernism), in: Essays in Kulturanthropologischen Studien, menschen formen (ed.), Marburg: Tectum, 2002.

Research Coordination

• Editor (as member of the Reading Group) GAP Greek Art Projects, Nr. 3, July-August (2005)
• Research Coordinator at: Oliveira, Nicolas de, Oxley, Nicola, Petry, Michael, Installation Art in the New Millennium. The Empire of the Senses, Foreword by Jonathan Crary, London: Thames and Hudson, 2003, ISBN 0-500-23808-1, 317 illustrations, p. 208.

Editor of exhibition catalogs 

• Going Viral, exh. cat. Galerie Steinzeit, Berlin 20.1.2022 - 3.3.2022, Athens: futura Publications, 2022 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Katja Ehrhard).
• Homemade Exotica, exh. cat. Freiraum in der Box, Berlin 14.11.2019-1.2.2020, Athens: futura Publications, 2019 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis)
• Beauty is the Method, exh. cat. Deree-The American College of Greece, Athens: 2016 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis)
• SelfConscious, exh. cat. Deree-The American College of Greece, Athens: 2015 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis)
• Night of the World - Yorgos Maraziotis, ed. by Yorgos Maraziotis, Gent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis)
• Modulating Politics - Joulia Strauss, (co-edit with Joulia Strauss), Berlin: Verlag Spreeathen, 2011 (texts by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Peter Berz, Johanna Di Blasi, Luca Di Blasi, Tania Hron, Georgia Kotretsos, Wolf-Moritz Mattern, Ana Texeira Pinto, Isabell Schrickel, Marcus Steinweg, Joulia Strauss and David Woodard).
• The Plotless Room_I Lie to History, ed. by Vassiliea Stylianidou and Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Berlin: Revolver, Athens: futura, 2010 (texts by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Annette Bitsch, Bernd Ternes, Phoebe Gianissi and Vassiliea Stylianidou).
• Paint-id. Contemporary Painting in Greece, exh. organized by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Athens: Futura, 2009 (texts by Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Denys Zacharopoulos).

• Women Only, exh. organized by Margaris Foundation and Beltsios Collection, Amphilochia, Athens: Futura, 2008 (texts by Athena Athanasiou, Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Angela Dimitrakakis).
• Exercising idiorrythmy: on the occasion of Vangelis Vlahos and Zafos Xagoraris’ participation in the 27th Sao Paulo Biennial, ed. by The Reading Group (S. Bahtsetzis, E. Karampa, P. Kosmadaki, Ch. Marinos, K. Stafylakis, M. Albany), Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens: Futura, 2007
• Drawing Screen, exh. organized by TinT gallery and Thessaloniki Cinema Museum, Athens: Futura, 2006 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis).

• An Outing. Beltios Collection. Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century, Matsopoulos Centre, exh. 27.5-30.7.2006 organized by the Beltios Collection and the Municipality of Trikala, Athens Futura, 2006 (text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis).
•  Familistère 1, Exh. Cat. KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, 12 Oct – 10 Nov. 2002, Berlin, ISBN 3-00-010316-3, pp. 4-7; (text "Familistère – Container – Subject Machines / Familistère – Container – Subjektivationsmaschine, by Sotirios Bahtsetzis).

Articles in exhibition catalogs and art magazines (selection)

• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios and Max Spielmann, "Doing Care", in Verbinde die Punkte Doing Care, Hyperwerk Institut for Postindustrial Design, Basel: FHNW, 2019.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "The Anarchy of Performance", edited by Lehnert, Christina  and Philippe Pirotte , GEORGIASAGRI GEORGIA SAGRI and I,  Exh. Cat. Kunstverein Braunschweig, December 2017–February 2018, and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, April–June 2018, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018, p. 35-43.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Rethinking Work and Socially Engaged Practices: Artecitya Agency" in: Artecitya. 9 Approaches to Urban Challenges, Neja Tomsic, Katja Pahor (eds.), Ljubljana: MoTA Editions, 2019, p. 96-99.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Academia: A story about troubadours, castratos, and singing mice", Krytyka Polityczna, Athens: Futura Publications, 2017, p. 226-230.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios and Max Spielmamm, "Postindustrial Design – eine Standortbestimmung",Yearbook 2016 Hyperwerk, Institute for Postindustrial Design, Basel: FHNW, 2016, 12-95.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Image Wars: For a Radical Redistribution of Semiopower", Szakacs, Eszter (ed.), Quest of Query: The Menace of the Obvious, Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2014, p. 56-63.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, Mimesis, Mimicry, and the Taming of the Gaze: On Painting's Potential to Influence Reality" (Mimesis, Mimikry und Blickzähmung. Über die Wirklichkeitsmacht der Malerei), in: Dimitris Tzamouranis. Melancholia, exh. cat. Galerie Miro, Prague, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Museum Frissiras, Athens, ed. by Galerie Michael Hass, Berlin, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz,  2012, p. 5-15.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Behind the (Southern) Looking Glass", South as a State of Mind, issue. 1 (Summer 2012)
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Intake - A Comentary / A Report", in: Theodoros Zafeiropoulos: Intake exh. cat. Hellenic American Union, Athens 2011, p. 14 -19 and 21 - 87
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Poets Machine - Commentary in the Name of a Machine", Making Words, exh. cat., Venice Biennial 2009 pp. 49-51
• Bahtsetzis Sotirios, Riolo, Stephen, Urban Art: Creating Public in the Time of Consensus, in: Clauß, Ingo (ed.), Urban Art. Works from the Reinking Collection, exh. cat. Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009, p. 174-185.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "An Archeology of Memory", in: Clement Page Works 2004-2009, Berlin: Kuckei+Kuckei, 2009, p. 69-76.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Gender Abuse - or, what it is to be queer" (with texts by Bruce LaBruce, Tim Stüttgen, Susanne M. Winterling, and Jorgen Callesen), in: Boot Print Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 23-25 (2009)
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "The fragmentary experience of supermodernity", in: George Drivas (un-) documented, exh. cat. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Athens, 2009, pp. 35-39.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Re-Inventing the Dispositif", in: Nikitovic, Anna (ed.), Stefanos Tsivopoulos. The Real The Story The Storyteller, exh. cat. Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade: Publikum, 2008, pp. 103-110.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Interventionist and Public-responsive Art in Greece", RES, No 2, pp. 84-93 (2008)
• Georgia Kotretsos in interview with Dana Turkovic, Jan Vam Woensel, Elpida Karaba, Cecilia Canziani, Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Abdellah Karroum , in: Kotretsos, Georgia, "Every Unemployed Curators Is Not an Independent Curator" (2007), in: Boot Print Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 15-20 (2007)
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Longing for Images - A Political Act", in: Dimitris Tzamouranis Painting, ed. by Kunstverein Buchholz, Nordheide, Verlag für moderne Kunst,Nürnberg, 2006, ISBN 9783938821947, pp. 86-92
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "The Archaeology of democratic antagonism", in: Archeology of Today? exh. cat. The Kosova Art Gallery, 22.05-05.06.2006, Prishtina 2006, pp.14-20
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, Elpida Karmpa, Anne-Laure Oberson, "Thesis", in: Action Field Kodra 06 - 6th visual arts festival, exh. organized by Cultural Municipality of Kalamaria, Kalamaria Thessaloniki, 2006
• Karamba, Elpida (ed.), Curating: Views on curating, 9+1 unrealized projects, (Καραμπά, Ελπίδα (επ.), Curating»: Απόψεις για την επιμελητική δράση, 9+1 α-πραγματοποίητα πρότζεκτ) (GAP Files #1), Athens: Futura 2005, pp. 93-106
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Relational Desire: the ‘Real’ Symptom. A Lacanian Treatment on Spectatorship", In: FeedBack 0-1. Ideas that inform, construct and concern the production of exhibitions and events, (in association with Whitechapel Art Gallery and Goldsmiths University of London) March 2003 – March 2004, pp. 40-43.
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "Avant-Gardes, A-topias and Visions" (Avantgarden, A-topien und Visionen), In: ‘far near centre’. 12 Positions in Contemporary Greek Art, Exh. Cat. European Patent Office, Munich, 23 June – 3 Sept. 2004, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89605-066-4, pp. 16-33
• Bahtsetzis, Sotirios, "The World as Photo-Synthesis" (Die Welt als Foto-Synthese), in: Goldrausch 11, Catrin Otto, Einschnitte, ed. Anne Marie Freybourg & Annette Thomas (Goldrausch Women Artists Project), Exh. Cat., Nürnberg, Düsseldorf, Lüneburg, Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933700-69-8, pp. 10-18

Public lectures, Panel Coordination & Workshops

30/11/2023: "Image, Exhibition, and Constructing the Public", Semiotics Laboratory-SemioLab of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR).

29/9/2023: lecture "Image Acts and Viewers: A Phenomenological Approach of Visibility", XIII International Conference on Semiotics, Semiotics Across and In-Between, Panteion University, 28-30/9/2023, Athens (GR)

23/9/2023: lecture "Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism: Two Scenarios for the Future of Man", International Forum of Performance Art (IFPA5): The Posthumanisms and the Metaverses Condition, organized by Emphasis Art Centre, Alma Kalma Research Laboratorium and And Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF), Drama (GR).

24/5/2023: lecture for the first public presentation of the works of the "PIETRO BELLASI COLLECTION AND KATERINA PAPAGERGIOU BELLASI" donated to the University of Thessaly, Volos (GR).

18-20/5/2023: Key Note Lecture "Earthly Desires and Futures", 17th Organization Studies Workshop, Utopias and dystopias: Organization studies in a brave new world? Athens, Greece (GR)

31/3– 2/4/2023: Lecture “The Chronotopia of Installation Art and the Contribution of Media Phenomenology to its Elucidation”, 7th Symposium of Greek Art Historians Society, National Gallery of Greece, Athens (GR)

10-13/11/2022: Lecture "Reconsidering Téchnē: Ancient Greek Media Studies and Contemporary Artistic Research - Contribution to Allochthon Panel", 1st Terra (in) Cognita International Conference: Dialogues between Greek Culture and Modern American Art, Hellenic American University, Athens (GR).

16-18/9/2022: Panel Coordination of the 4th International Forum of Performance Art (IFPA): (Re)Approach Now, organized by Emphasis Art Centre and Alma Kalma Research Laboratorium, Drama (GR).

1&2/4/2022: Lecture "The Political Chronotopia of Installation Art", Conference "Performance: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Applications", University of Patras (GR)

15/10/2021: Lecture "Kittler and the Arts" during the festival The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, Art at the International Congress Centre (ICC) in Berlin, organized by the Berliner Festspiele.

27-29/9/2021: CARVING THE NEGATIVE Workshop I, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΩ, Τhe Tinos Gathering, Tinos Island, Greece, Organized by The Telos Society, Curator: Sotirios Bahtsetzis

29/9/2021: Lecture “Universitas - A Case Study: How Artists learn from Migration” during the Symposium "Postmigration: Reframing Identity, Community and History" at Space 52, organized by The Danish Institute at Athens

9-10.9.2021: Panel Coordination of the 3rd International Forum of Performance Art (IFPA): “The Gendered Body in Performance. The Political through the Performativity of Gender”, organized by Emphasis Art Centre and Alma Kalma Research Laboratorium, Parko Ag. Varvaras, Drama (GR).

26-29.8.2021: Co-curator of the workshop-project “Carving the Negative” at Kinono at Tinos (GR) and organized by THE ΤΕΛΟΣ SOCIETY | TTS - Arts & Culture Research Lab Observatorium

19.10.2019: Lecture "Post-industrial Design," Conference “Post Europe: 3 Approaches for the Future of Europe in a Global Perspective” by Goethe Institut Thessaloniki in the context of  FREIRAUM II x LABattoir at the "Former Slaughterhouse" Municipal Building of Thessaloniki (GR).

8.5.2019: Panel Coordination Post-industrial Design: The LABattoir Case in the Context of the 'Thessaloniki Design Week' at the "Former Slaughterhouse" Municipal Building of Thessaloniki (GR)

11.1.2019: Introductory lecture to “The End of Diversity in Writing about Art” Lecture by James Elkins E.C. Chadbourne Chair of art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, organized by the Greek Society of Art Historians, Benaki Museum.

8.12.2018 Lecture "Art for Social Change", "Scene in a City", a workshop for the creation, design and construction of a portable theater scene for the City of Thessaloniki. by Goethe Institute Thessaloniki & Urbane Künste Ruhr in the context of "Actopolis. The Art of Action," at the "Former Slaughterhouse" Municipal Building of Thessaloniki (GR)
21.11.2018 Lecture: "Postindustrial Hyperculture and its Subject", Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos (GR).
21/10/2018, 1st Educational Workshop: The G. & A. Mamidaki Foundation guides students in the world of contemporary art, at Minos Beach art hotel, in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Modern Art.

12.10.2018 Lecture: "Speech Act Theory in Visual Studies: Abstract Art and Modern Visibilities", Faculty Research Seminars 2018-19 Series, Deree The American College of Greece (GR).
26.3.2018 Lecture: "The Postindustrial Condition", MA Postindustrial Design, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos (GR).
3.-5.11.2017 Paper presentation: The Anthropotechnics of Branding. 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Semiotics Branded. The Semiotics of Branding in Culture and Context, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos (CY).
6.– 7.07.2017 The School of Everything at the Parliament of Bodies at the documenta 14 Athens & 11.–13.06.2017 The School of Everything at the documenta 14 Kassel, with Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Joulia Strauss, Katja Ehrhardt, Paul B. Preciado, Arnisa Zeqo, Jean-Pierre Rammant, Max Spielmann, Jonas Tinius, Luca Di Blasi, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Mathilde ter Heijne, Noah Fischer, Mriganka Mudhukallya, Elad Lapidot, Lindsay Parkhowell, Maarten Vanvolsem, Johanna Scherf, Bart Geerts, Mischa Schaub, Andrea Iten, Georgia Kotretsos, Sotiris Tsiganos, Jonian Bisai, Ahmad Alkhatieb, Sebastian Schäfer, Judith Holzer, Sebastian Lütgert, Jan Gerber, Jenny Marketou, Ioulia Mermingka, Tania Hron, Sanchayan Ghosh, Martina Schumacher, Marco Klausen, Nuno Cassola Marques and Costas Amvrosiadis, organised by AthenSYN and Avtonomi Akadimia in collaboration with Allianz Cultural Foundation, Partners: ASFA Athens School of Fine Arts (GR), Kunsthochschule Kassel (D), LUCA School of Arts, Leuven, Brussels, Gent (B), HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Basel (CH).
6.5.2017, Lecture, Conference of the 2nd edition of Public Art Festival Survival: Art in Public Space, at the City of Athens Cultural Centre with the support of the Organization of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Municipality of Athens, with Αndreas Fakis, Voina, Denys Zacharopoulos, Martin Schulze, Steve Kurtz, Yasha Young, Vasilis Charalambidis, Maria Chatzidakis, Julia Tulke and Costas Varotsos, coordinated by Alexandros Psychoulis.

31.3-1.4.2017, International Conference Work as Invention Art for Social Change, Principal Scientific Consultant and Moderator of the Panel Discussions of the conference with video statements and presentations by Tania Bruguera, Kari Conte, Pablo Helguera, Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Monika Kästli, Achilleas Kentonis, Dimitri Konstantinidis, Florian Malzacher, Pedro Reyes, Felix Stalder, Nato Thompson, Sepake Angiama, Stephanie Bertrand, Niels Boeing, Lydia Chatziiakovou, Elli Chrysidou, Christopher Dell, Eric Ellingsen, Giovanni Flore, Giorgos Gkiouzepas, Harikleia Hari, Philip Horst, Lena Jöhnk, Samuel Kalika, Christof Mayer, Christos Pierros, Rainer Rosegger, Christos Savvidis, Max Spielmann, Kostis Stafylakis, Nicholas Theocarakis and Arnisa Zeqo. The conference included the live streaming of the entire conference by the Media Lab and it was organized by Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design – Academy of Art and Design – University of Applied Sciences & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel and the Municipality of Thessaloniki - project "LABattoir”.
24.10.2016, Coordination of the Public Discussion Art as Remedy? Cultural Work and the Refugee Crisis in the Athens Biennale at Varvakeios Market with Presentations by Paris Legakis, Marina Gioti, Petros Lales, Vilma Andrioti and Evi Lambropoulou.

29.4.2016, Lecture Post-Anthropagogy: For a Change of Mentality, conference *Not Established Post Industrial Design 28.-30.4.2016 Basel (CH), University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design.
17.4.2016, panel and roundtable discussion Art-as-Education, with Paul B. Preciado, Vasyl Cherepanyn and Joulia Strauss, during the Athens Biennale 2015-2017.

15.4.2016, Lecture Education as Curatorial and Artistic Practice, Seccion II: Common Praxis of the International Summit Synapse 2: Rethinking Institutional Critique - A View from the South, Athens Biennial 2015-2017 Omonoia, with Katia Arfara, Maria-Thalia Carras, Olga Hatzidaki, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Mohammad Salemy, Ala Younis.
19.12.2015,  lecture Art for Social Change, REALISE. The Impact of Art For Social Change Towards Sustainable Growth for Cities, Warm-up - Introduction to LABattoir, at the "Former Slaughterhouse" Municipal Building of Thessaloniki (GR).

10.11.2015, lecture Semiopower, Eikonomia and Dispositifs of the Posthuman, during the launch event of the publication program of documenta 14 - South as a State of Mind #6 [documenta 14#1] at the National Library of Greece, with Marina Fokidis, Quinn Latimer, Naeem Mohaiemen, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Paul B. Preciado and Adam Szymczyk.
9.6.2015, lecture Semiopower and Eikonomia in Avtonomi Akadimia, Athens

31.1.2015, Lecture Art for Social Change,  during the Artecitya Conference in the Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, following the kickoff meeting and workshop of the Artecitya network.
27.9.2014, Lecture Catastrophe: On the Management of the Future, during the International Symposium  "Politics of Paradise and Catastrophes" in FFT Dusseldorf, Germany, and Round-table discussion with Federica Bueti and Reinhold Görling.
27.6.2014, Round-table discussion Images on Crisis, at the Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki. Participants:  Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Peggy Sue Amison, Laura Serani, Katerina Stathopoulou, Moderated by Alexandra Athanasiadou.

7.6. 2014, Round-table discussion Quest of Query: The Menace of the Obvious, tranzit.hu Budapest, about the interpretations of contemporary fascism and nationalism within contemporary art in Greece, Hungary, as well as Europe. Participants: Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Márton Pacsika and artist Theodoros Zafeiropoulos. Moderated by Eszter Szakács.

24, 25.1.2014, Lecture  Image Wars: Semiopower versus Eikonomia, Centre for Art and Technology (ZKM) in Karlsruhe during the "GlobalActivism" Symposium, organized by Peter Weibel Global Activism.
20.9.2012, Lecture The Politics of Mimesis, Centre of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, Panel Meeting „Art in Public Space and its Role in Urban Transformation“ with the participation of Mischa Kuball, Florian Matzner, Carina Path, Syrago Tsiara.

4.5.2012.  Introductory  lecture to Hans Belting’s lecture “World Art & Global Art. Views of Changing Art Worlds” MMCA Project Space

22.2.2012, Installation Art, Environment, Land Art, lecture during the series ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, organised by the MMCA in Thessaloniki.

12.6.2011, Lecture and Workshop Images Make Sense, at the Maraya Art Centre, during the project Roaming Images in Sharjah, UAE, with the participation of Giuseppe Moscatello, George Katodrytis, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, artists from UAE and students from the American University in Sharjah.

31.3.2011, Panel Coordination Iconic – Architectonic: Architecture and Visual Culture in the Middle East, Member of the Scientific Team of the Conference and Panel Moderator, NOESIS Science Centre and Technology Museum, Thessaloniki, organised by the Architecture Department, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Ecoweek and the 3rd Biennale of Thessaloniki.
4.11.2010, Lecture Universalism as Revolution, at Fachhochschule Nordwest Schweiz - Institut Kunst during the "Guest Corner" series in Basel.
6.6.2010, Lecture Symptomatic Spectators, at Freud's Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg,
16.12.2009, Lecture Cinematism against Visual Regimes: Undoing Gender in Contemporary Art in Greece, Columbia University in New York, organized by the Modern Greek Seminar at the University Seminars Program, The Program in Hellenic Studies; The School of the Arts.

30.8-1.9.2009, Lecture Image Wars: Athen’s riots between event and multitude, at the Dictionary of War - Edition Moscoworganized by Oleg Nikiforov and Xenia Golubovich - Project Letterra, Logos Publishing House, Off University at the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow in collaboration with Merve Publishing House.

 

4.9.2009, Lecture On the Post-Cinematic Conditions of Contemporary Art: Dispositifs of Politics, at Freud's Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg.

25.3.2009, Round Table Discussion Einblicke und Diskussion zu den Hintergründen der Ausschreitungen in Griechenland rund um den Jahreswechsel und den Folgen des Aufstands,  with Haris Triantafilidou, Vassilios Tsianos, Nikos Xydakis, organized and moderated by Margarita Tsomou at the Rote Fabrik in Zurich.

31.08.2007, Lecture Testing the Public. New Public Art in Greece, during the International Symposium "The Public Turn in Contemporary Art" in Santralistanbul, Istanbul, curated by Pelin Tan.