Work in progress, 2019–

The work of Panos Sklavenitis, Don Quixote derives from the celebrated novel, which has inspired an alternative 'manliness', that of a sensitive, eccentric anti-hero, whose variety of readings exposed a radical critique of the patriarchal constructions of masculinity and femininity. In Sklavenitis work as it happens in the original Cervantes novel, the reader can hear the different positions of the heroes, thus, one can hear Pantha's donkey's view, or rather the donkey's fantasy of an alter ego; a hybrid that resembles a sort of scientific genetic experiment and of which Sklavenitis draws a digital portrait.
This creature is a catalyst in Sklavenitis' version of Don Quixote, as it works sweepingly over the idea of 'alternative' modes of existence.  The alternatives will always be located within the patriarchal canon while the donkey's 'experience' presupposes a blasphemous post-human transcendence in consciousness.

Adapted from a text by Elpida Karampa (Center for New Media and Feminist Public Practices).

Untitled (Don Quixote) is an ongoing project that began in 2019 following an invitation from the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices (CNMFPP). Drawing on Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, the project explores alternative forms of subjectivity, masculinity, and otherness through text, digital drawing, video, and performance.

The project was initially developed as a constellation of works comprising a text, a video piece, and a series of digital drawings. Central to the project is the figure of Sancho Panza’s donkey and its imagined alter ego, a hybrid creature that serves as a vehicle for reflecting on posthuman perspectives and the limits of identity categories.

Since its inception, Untitled (Don Quixote) has taken different forms and has been presented in exhibitions, performances, public discussions, and site-specific projections. In 2020, material from the project was included in the group exhibition The Right to Silence? at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY, City University of New York), curated by Sozita Goudouna. The project was also discussed as part of the Reading Group Online: Feminist Theories and Practices, organized by the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices (4 June 2020), with Panos Sklavenitis and Eva Giannakopoulou as invited guests. 
More recent iterations have taken the form of live performances presented at AVDP16 PROMENADE (FIAT Space, Athens, December 2025) and PERASMATA II: Performative All-Nighter (Bagkeion Hotel, Athens, January 2026), both performed by Katerina Kalentzi.
In 2026, the project was presented as part of the exhibition programme PAZARI at Poeme Art Space, Nafplio (5–30 April 2026). A public screening took place on 5 April on the blind façade of the Artemis Hotel, transforming the urban surface into a temporary projection site and extending the work into the public space.

The project remains open-ended, continuously evolving through new adaptations, presentations, and media.