Bojana Kunst
http://www.kunstbody.org
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Bojana Kunst is philosopher, dance and theatre theoretician, dramatist and teacher. She works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science at Justus – Liebig University Giessen. She is living in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her primary research and teaching interests are contemporary dance and performance with the special focus on the late 20th century and 21st century. She also teaches history of performance, media arts, philosophy and political theory. She dedicated her research and teaching especially to philosophy and theory of the body and movement, contemporary performance, new media art, theoretical approaches to choreography and dramaturgy, contemporary visual art and political theories of performance. She is strongly interested in developing theory and reflection of contemporary practice from interdisciplinary and gender perspective. In the last years she is interested especially in the reflection of broader aesthetic, cultural and social processes in choreography and performance and strong connections between theory and practical work. She published over 250 articles in various international publications.
1. Academic Development
1994
She graduated in 1994 from Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Humanities
1996
She began to work as young researcher in the year 1996 at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy - Aesthetics
1998
Completed Master Degree at the University of Ljubljana. The Problem of the Body in Theatre, Impossible Body, Promotor: prof. Dr. Lev Kreft
1999
From 1999 she worked as one of the foundational members of Maska, independent organisation for publishing, production, education and research
2002
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Humanities, Department for Philosophy. The title of the thesis: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Between Organic and Technological, Aesthetics of the Body and the Art of Postmodernism. Promotor: Prof. Dr. Lev Kreft
2002
She began to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for Humanities
2003
Post-doctoral research at the University of Antwerpen, with prof. Dr. Luk van den Dries
2003
Habilitation: She received her habilitation at University of Primorska, where she is working as an Assistant professor for Philosophy of Visual Culture
2003 -
She began to work as an assistant professor at the University of Primorska where she is still teaching. From 2003 she is teaching the course on philosophy of the body and performance in the postgraduate course Philosophy of Visual Culture and supervising postgraduate students (MA and Ph.D. programme)
2004 - 2009
She worked as researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
2008
She received her second habilitation at the University of Primorska
2009 -2011
She worked as visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, Department for Human Movement and Performance Studies Hamburg. She received DAAD visiting professorship grant for 2 years
2012
From 2012 she is a full professor for Dance and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science at Justus-Liebig University Giessen.
Scholarships and grants
1996 – 2002
Young researcher grant from Ministry of Science of Republic of Slovenia
2002
Post-doctoral grant from Ministry of Science of Republic of Slovenia
2003
Post-doctoral grant from Flemish Government and University of Antwerp
2005 - 2009
Research grant from Ministry of Science of Republic of Slovenia
2009 - 2011
DAAD Visiting Professorship Grant at the University of Hamburg
2011
Research Grant from INHA (Institute national de l'Histoire de l'art), research program « Arts et mondialisation », Paris, France
Dramaturgies, artistic collaborations, productions
For number of years she is working as a dramaturge and collaborating with different performance artists, choreographers, new media artists and visual artists (among them Hooman Sharifi, Matjaž Farič, Nataša Kos, Paz Rojo, Ivana Muller, Igor Štromajer, Mare Bulc, Diego De Brea, Apolonija Šušteršič, Davide Grassi. Bojan Jablanovec). She is involved in different artistic productions, with the special interest for research, inter-medial and experimental processes of performance work. She is developing new platforms for practical artistic work, which would be open to new methodologies of work and experimental approaches. She also works as an artistic advisor and mentor for young performance artists in various European contexts.
Conferences, workshops and lectures
Bojana Kunst participated at several academic conferences and seminars worldwide, among them:
- 1st Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, 6 – 8 November 2000, Athens.
- Art and Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe, Dublin University, 29 – 30 April, 2004
- 4th European Conference for Feminist Research, 28. 9 - 1. 10. 2000, Bologna, Italy
- Art and its strategies: Between aesthetics and politics: international colloquium, National Theatre Museum, Ljubljana, October 20 – 23, 2004
- Perform, State, Interrogate (Conference of Performance Studies International), June 15 – 18, Singapur, 2005
- Inventur: Tanz und Performance, Tanzquartier Wienna, 3 – 5 March, Wienna, 2005
- The Anatomical Theatre Revisited, University of Amsterdam, 5 – 8 April, Amsterdam, 2006
- Prognosen ueber Bewegungen, Hebbel Theater Berlin, June 2008
- Misperformance: Misfiring, misfitting, misreading: Performance Studies International 15, Conference, Zagreb, 24 – 28 June 2009
- Tanzkongres 2009, No Step Without Movement, 5 – 8 November, Hamburg.
- Friendship and Production, Bojana Kunst, Standpunkt: Kollaboration, K3 – Zentrum fur Choreographie, Tanzplan Hamburg, 23. 4. 2010
- Performance Matters Conference, University of Roehampton and Live Art Development Agency, Toynbee Theatre, 5. October 2010, London
- Dancing Labour, Lecture at the Conference of BIT theatre festival, Bergen, 14 – 15. October 2010
- Dance, Politics and Co-Immunity, Giessen University, 11 – 14. November 2010
- The Spectator as an Active Individual, Plennary Session with Bojana Kunst and Olga de Soto, at MOV'S, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 11.06. 2010
- The idea of communism and its potential for art production today, Panel discussion with Felix Ensslin, Bojana Kunst and Jan Ritsema, Communism Conference, Volksbuhne Berlin, 25. 06. 2010
- Recherchen zum Stadtheater der Zukunft: Kritik der Institution, Ringvorlesung, HessischeTheaterakademie, Theater Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main, 8. 07. 2010
International Conference Dance and Theory, Ufferhalen Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, 28 – 30 April 2011
„Art Event“, Conference, International Graffic Biennal, Ljubljana, 1 – 4 November 2011
„Finally Being Together in Time“, Lecture at the conference Encounters in Synchronous Time, Performance Studies International, Athens, 24 – 26 November, 2011
„Projective Temporality: Seizing of Time in Contemporary Performance”, lecture and workshop, Inter Art Center, Malmö, 18 – 22. januar, 2012.
Horizont projekta / The horizon of the project, Lecture at the Seminar for Contemporary Performing Arts, Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, 27. 02. 2012.
A wasted encounter, lecture and master class with Danae Theodoriau at the University of Roehampton, London, 3 – 6 May, 2012.
„Precarious Audience: On the Tension between Effort and Idleness of Judgment in Contemporary Performance”, Judging Contemporary Art, International Symposium, FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE and Universidad Publica de Navarra, 31st of May - 1st of June, Pamplona and Madrid
„Projective Temporality“, SODA Lecture, Universtität der Künste, Berlin, 12. 07. 2012.
„The Voice of the Dancing Body“, lecture at the conference Acts of Voicing, Kunstverein Stuttgart, 7 – 9 December, 2012.
Bojana Kunst also leads many different seminars, workshop situations, teaching at summer academies, laboratories and lectures on dance and performance theory, where she teaches about dance, dramaturgy, performance practice and theory in the 20th and 21st century. She was many times invited by various institutions from the field of contemporary performance and visual arts, among them:
Das Arts School (Amsterdam), School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam), Tanzquartier (laboratories and dramaturgical coaching for dancers), Hebbel Theater (Berlin), BIT festival (Bergen), Dancas na Ciudade (Lisbon), Festival Hope (Giessen), Seminar for Contemporary Performing Arts (Maska, Ljubljana), Bitef Festival (Belgrade), CDU (Zagreb), Amber (Istanbul), L’animal esquena (Girona), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kampnagel (Hamburg), De Singel (Antwerpen), Transmediale (Berlin), Steierische Herbst Graz, Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Hetweem Theatre Amsterdam, Artea Madrid, New Moves Festival Glasgow, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Cankarjev dom Ljubljana, Gibanica Ljubljana, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Weld Stockholm, Amber Festival Istanbul, Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers Paris, Kalamata Dance Festival, Greece.
Organisation of Conferences and Seminars
Organisation of international colloquium of the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics: Art and its strategies: Between aesthetics and politics: international colloquium, National Theatre Museum, Ljubljana, October 20 – 23, 2004
Organisation of the International seminar for Contemporary Performance, Maska and Cankarjev dom Ljubljana (2002 - 2009)
Organisation of Colloquium (Performance Studies Hamburg and K3, Kampangel Hamburg): Re-imagining Avant-garde: Radical propositions for performance (from April 2010 – July 2010)
Organisation of International Conference Standpunkt Colaboration (together with Kersting Evert), Performance Studies Hamburg and K3, Kampangel Hamburg (23 – 24. 4. 2010)
Organisation of International Conference: On the Threshold of Practice, Reflections on Performance Studies as an Academic Program (together with prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein), Performance Studies Hamburg and Kampnagel Hamburg, 2 – 4. June 2011
Organisation of the International Conference Undercommons, Art, Education and Labour, Justus-Liebig Universty Giessen and LAB Frankfurt, 28th of May - 1st of June 2014.
Editorial Boards
1999-
Editorial board of the magazine for the contemporary performing arts Maska
2006-
International editorial board of Performance Research.
2008-
Editorial board of Amfiteater, a scientific magazine published at Academy for Theatre in Ljubljana.
Publications
Scientific Monographs:
1999
The Impossible Body; Body and Machine: Theatre, Representation of the Body and Relation to the Artificial, Maska, Ljubljana. (Slovene language)
2004
Dangerous Connections: Body, Philosophy and Relationship to the Artificial, Maska, Ljubljana. (Slovene language)
2006
Co-editor of the scientific monograph Contemporary Performing Art in Slovenia, Maska Ljubljana. (together with Petra Pogorevc).
2010
Editor of scientific monograph Work and Collaboration Processes in Contemporary Performance, Amfiteater and Maska, 2010. (Slovene and English language)
2012
Editor of the Maska Magazine, „Projected Temporality / Projektivna časovnost / La Temporalité Projective,“ Maska, 149 – 150, Automn, Ljubljana 2012.
2013
Artist at Work, Closeness Between Art and Capitalism, Scientific Monography, Maska, Ljubljana (Slovene language)
2013
„Performance and Labour“, Performance Research, 16.1., co-editor with Gabriele Klein
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