Profile
about me
I am a performance artist, lecturer and researcher working across several universities and disciplines with a queer-feminist focus. In 2021 I completed my practice-based PhD at Chelsea College of Art (Subjectivity and Feminism(s) research group) where I investigated strategies of resistance in post-Fordism from a feminist performance perspective. In my talks and presentations I explore how to create spaces of ambivalence as a basis for democratic thinking. Previous to my PhD, I did MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and studied Painting (Academic Diploma), Economics (BSc.) and Political Sciences in Vienna. From 2016 to 2018, alongside my PhD, I organised a monthly feminist performance discussion group called “Space for Failure” which was open to students/postgraduates and early career artists to discuss work in progress in a peer forum.
EXPERIENCE
Lecturer
University of the Arts London | Fine Art and Theatre Design | Creative Reseach | 2016 - ongoing
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Art University of Bournemouth | Fine Art | 2021
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Gender Studies ( Institute of Art & Architecture) | 2020/21
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Buckingham New University | Visual Media Cultures | 2018
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PR/Communications
Central Saint Martins | Degree Shows | 2017 | Degree Shows Press Officer
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Chelsea College of Art | Marketing Assistant | 2017
Central Saint Martins | Degree Shows | 2016 | PR Assistant
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Austrian Museum of Economics | Public Speaker | 2011-2012
Awards
Fresh A.I.R Berlin Artist Residency Award | Accommodation, Studio, Material, Maintenance Grant, Berlin Germany | 2022
TECHNE Doctoral Research Award | AHRC England Maintenance grant and fees | 2017
Nida Doctoral School award | travel and fee, Lithuania | 2017
MEAD award for British School of Rome research residency | Italy, studio award and travel | 2016
AIR Bergen | studio award, Norway | 2016
Djerassi artist in residence Program | California, US, studio, maintenance and travel award | 2013
Theodor Koerner award | "Conference of the animals at the Rio Xingu" video essay | 2012
Emmanuel and Sofie Fohn scholarship | London Riot Isotopes | 2011
Viennese Chamber of Commerce award | "Tip Toe dancing on the retirement floor" in Arbeit & Wirtschaft | 2010
TrainingS
Breaking Bias | University of the Arts London
City lit | Debating
Nida Art Colony, Lithuania | How to expose practice-based research | Nida Doctoral Summer School
Utrecht University, Netherlands | Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance | Rosi Braidotti
City lit | Alexander Technique for Performers | Brita Forsstrom
Kingston University | Connect research and audience engagement​
City lit | Use your voice assertively | Ian Taylor
Royal Holloway University | Making professional connections | Anne Wilson
Tate Modern | Networked economies of Art | Helen Kaplinsky
Barcelona Graduate School of Economics | Regulation of banks and risk management : PRE AND POST CRISIS | R. De Young
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Invited talks
Lecture @ the The Supreme Deluxe Essential Monster Chetwynd Handbook book launch at National Gallery Scotland | 2019, Edinburgh, UK
Keynote speaker "Difficult research" symposium | 2018 | University of Warwick, UK
Feminist internet symposium | Central Saint Martins | 2017 | London, UK
Space for dialogue | London College of Communications | 2017 | London, UK
Gender, Anarchy and Demolition | Institute of Contemporary Art | 2016 | London, UK
Feminism and digital art | Chelsea College of Art | 2016 | London, UK
G(j)estekunstnere talk | Public Library | 2016 | Bergen, Norway
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Special Skills
I am a professionally trained public speaker and networker with a special focus on audience engagement techniques.Recently I have also completed a special training for space travel.
Conferences
IFTR | 2024 | Manila, PH
PSi #29 | 2024 | London | UK
Regrowth and Resistance | 2021| Kew Gardens | UK
The Matter of Circulation | 2021 | Folkestone Triennale | UK
Following the Affective Turn | 2021 | Brighton University | UK
Love Spells and Rituals for Another World Symposium | 2020 | RHUL (Virtual Event)
PSi#25 Elasticity | 2019 | Calgary, Canada
THE LIVED FEMALE BODY IN PERFORMANCE | 2019 | University of Leeds, UK
CARU Conference for artistic research | 2018 | Brooks University, Oxford, UK
PSi#24 Performance as Network : Arts, City, Culture | 2018 | Daegu, South Korea
Conference of the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society | 2018 | Nottingham University, UK
1968-2018 Protest, Performance and the Public Sphere’ conference | 2018 | University of Warwick, UK
Performance as Activism @ Educational Theatre Forum | 2018 | NYU Steinhardt School, New York, US
Emotion, Engagement, Experience | TECHNE conference | 2017 | Amnesty International HQ London, UK
PSi#23 | Overflow | 2017 | Hamburg, Germany
Intersections | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama | 2017 | London, UK
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Photo: Viktoria Tomaschko