Reading & Presentation with Katrin Ackerl Konstantin – Thursday, October 29, 6:30 PM

To what extent can desired representations of gender roles be observed in contemporary theatre, and how are these experienced by performers? What critique must be articulated within the dispositif of theatre? And how can affect and critique be connected in this context? Bridging art and scholarship, Katrin Ackerl Konstantin takes a transdisciplinary approach to stereotypes, sexisms, and hierarchies in theatre. In doing so, she establishes the concept of “affective queering,” using it as an aesthetic strategy to open up self-conceptions of normativity to critique — through the very process of subjectivation itself.

Katrin Ackerl Konstantin is an actress, director, and psychologist. She completed her doctorate at the inter-university institution Science and Art (Wissenschaft und Kunst) at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Paris Lodron University Salzburg. She is the artistic director of the participatory format schau.Räume.