Künstlerhaus Mousonturm

Biography
Sandra Noeth

Dr. Sandra Noeth, professor at HZT Berlin, has been active internationally as a curator and dramaturge in both independent and institutional contexts. As Head of Dramaturgy and Research at Tanzquartier Wien (2009-2014), she developed a series of research and presentation projects on concepts and practices of responsibility, religion, integrity and protest in relation to the body. Her curatorial and scientific research focusses especially on ethical and political perspectives toward body-practice and theory (see ‘Violence of Inscriptions’, a project on bodies under structural violence, with A. Zaides, 2016-18, HAU Hebbel am Ufer) and dramaturgy in the body-centred performing arts. She co-edited several books on the topics such as ‘Bodies of Evidence: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Movement’ (2018, with G. Ertem, Passagen) and the periodical ‘SCORES’ (2010-16, with Tanzquartier Wien). Her PhD (2018) deals with the entangled experience of the border and of collectivity in artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine (‘Resilient Bodies, Residual Effects’, forthcoming with transcript in 2019).

Biography
Lina Majdalanie

Lina Majdalanie was born in Beirut (Lebanon) and works as an actor as well as a director and writer. She has devised numerous productions including ‘Biokhraphia’ (2002), ‘Photoromance’ (2009), ‘33 rpm and a few seconds’ (2012), ‘A Drop of Sweat’ (2015), ‘Appendice’ (2016), ‘Do I Know you?’ (2017), ‘Borborygmus’ (2019) and ‘Last but not Last’ (2020). She has also taught at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva, DasArts in Amsterdam, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and Bard College, Berlin. In her work Majdalanie investigates forms of political language in and age of globalisation and digital technology. She regularly curates programmes for a range of institutions such as ‘Motion-Less’ (Tanzquartier Wien, 2009), ‘Beyond Beirut’ (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm 2016) and ‘Relatively Universal’ (HAU, 2017).

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Biography
Steven Cohen

Steven Cohen was born Johannesburg, South Africa, and lives in Lille, France. He is a visual and performance artist, staging interventions in the public realm and in gallery/theatre spaces. He has performed extensively on the festival circuit, at such prestigious venues and events as the Festival d’Automne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival; Montpellier Danse; Festival d’Avignon; Bavarian State Opera; Oktoberdans, Bergen, Norway; and Canadian Stage, Toronto. Cohen participated in the 11th Havana Biennale (2012) and the first Aichi Triennale in Japan (2010). Recent group exhibitions include “IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy”, BOZAR Centre for Arts (2019); “Lignes de vies – une exposition de légendes”, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (2019).

Biography
James Martel

James Martel teaches political theory in the department of political science at San Francisco State University. He is the author, most recently of “Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead” (2018). Previous books include “The Misinterpellated Subject” (2017) and a trilogy of books on Walter Benjamin. He is currently working on a new book tentatively entitled Disappointing Vision: Anarchist Prophecy and the Power of Collective Forms of Seeing. He works on anarchist theory, critical legal theory, critical race studies, political theology and comparative literature studies.