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EDUCATION

Since 2018

2017 – 2022
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2014 – 2015
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2010 – 2014

2012 – 2013

PhD candidate in the post graduate programme “Rightwing Populism – Authoritarian Developments, Far-Right Discourses, Democratic Responses”, Universities of Leipzig & Cologne

Diploma in Media Art (First), Class Expanded Cinema - Clemens von Wedemeyer, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
MA Art and Politics (Distinction), Goldsmiths University of London; Intercollegiate Student at the MSc Programme Comparative Political Thought, SOAS, London

BA Politics, English-Speaking Cultures, Performance Studies (First), University of Bremen 

Exchange Student at Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Cracow

SHOWS/SCREENINGS (selection)

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BIENALSUR, virtual venue
Category Award Nominee - Best Experimental at the AltFF Alternative Film Festival for "We Must Be Mistaken"
Fugitive Knowledges, Ghent University, Belgium

YUP - Young Urban Performances Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
We Must Be Mistaken, solo show at Galerie KUB, Leipzig
Conditions of a Necessity – The Exhibition, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Outside the Box - GALA, Conne Island, Leipzig

Plateau, 17. Lindenow Festival, Plateau.Evji, Leipzig

Grabeland (Future Splendors), KGV Buren, Leipzig

Was das Gespenst nicht kennt - Specters of the Afternoon, Villa Esche, Chemnitz

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin for New Cinema & Contemporary Art (online video archive), Paris

Conditions of a Necessity – The Gathering, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

1937 - 2017: Von Entarteter Kunst zu Entstellter Kunst, HGB Gallery, Leipzig

Screening- & Reading Event, Kino in Bewegung, with Karlheinz & Angela Steinmüller & Ann Cotten, Bautzen

Final Draft / Drift, 15. Lindenow Festival, Westpol Airspace, Leipzig

Am Nerv der Demokratie, 5th Soundcheck Philosophie Festival, LOFFT, Leipzig

3rd NSK Folk Art Biennale, Trbovlje, Slovenia

Glam Slam! 2, Cabaret Voltaire, Athens

DOCUMENA - ΔΟΚΟΥΜΕΝΑ, 6th Athens Biennale for Contemporary Art, Athens
Queer-Indigenous Catwalk @The Transit of Hermes: The Athens-Kassel Ride (documenta14), Athens
Press Conference: Heart & Sword Division – Waiting for the Barbarians, 6th Athens Biennale for Contemporary Art, Athens

Lecture Performance, Goldsmiths University of London, London

Lecture Performance, SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Crystal Palace Group, Performance @Crystal Palace Park, London

The Show Don't Tell Show, The Bussey Building, London

OUTNOW Festival, Bremen

Freiland-Festival, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, Bremen

TALKS/PUBLICATIONS/WORKSHOPS

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"KI versus Demokratie? Der Kampf gegen rechts in Zeiten von Deep Fakes, Social Bots und Fake News" - panelist at KompRex Salonreihe, Berlin
"Fake History Memes in Honour of Meme Warriors – Historiography and Heroes in the Context of the Great Meme War", panelist at the workshop "Far-right Memory in Digital Age", University of Leipzig
"Extrem rechte Memes über Greta Thunberg", workshop delivered together with Tabea Falk at the Public Climate School, University of Leipzig
"He Will Not Divide Us. Far-Right Memetic Warfare at the Limits of Liberalism", panelist at the international online conference "Current Constellations - Perspectives on Critical Theory in Contemporary Capitalism"

"Noooo You Can't Just Vaporize My Entire Armored Division" - Extrem rechte Meme-Reaktionen auf den russischen Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine. In: Decker, Oliver/Kiess, Johannes/Heller, Ayline/Brähler, Elmar (Eds.), Autoritäre Dynamiken in unsicheren Zeiten. Neue Herausforderungen – alte Reaktionen? / Leipziger Autoritarismus Studie 2022. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 367-396. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365426664_Noooo_You_Can't_Just_Vaporize_My_Entire_Armored_Division_-_Extrem_rechte_Meme-Reaktionen_auf_den_russischen_Angriffskrieg_auf_die_Ukraine

"Have you stolen my dreams and my childhood? - Tiefenhermeneutischer Workshop über extrem rechte Memes zu Greta Thunberg", workshop delivered together with Tabea Falk at the globe22 Science Festival, University of Leipzig

"We Must Be Mistaken", artist talk at the conference "Fugitive Knowledges", Ghent, Belgium
"War War Never Changes" - Heroismus in rechten Memes, lecture in the seminar "Soziale Konflikte?
Körperbearbeitung zwischen Begehren und Gewalt", BA Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Berlin
"Extrem rechte Meme Reaktionen auf den Angriffskrieg auf die Ukraine", In: EFBI Digital Report 2022 - 1.
Available for download: https://efbi.de/files/efbi/pdfs/2022-1-EFBI%20Digital%20Report_final.pdf.
"Depth-Hermeneutic Meme Analysis: 'Triggered Feminist' - Antifeminist Propaganda or Misogynist Artefact?",
workshop delivered together with Charlotte Höcker in the MA programme "Screen Cultures", University of Oslo
"Meme-Warriors und Attentäter - Heldenbilder in extrem-rechter Internetkultur", lecture as part of a series of
presentations on the Halle synagogue shooting, https://www.burg-halle.de/hochschule/information/aktuelles
la/vortraege-zum-anschlag-von-halle-antisemitische-ideologie-memes-und-die-gesellschaftliche-mitte/,Halle
"Saving Heroism in the Online Sphere - The Heroic in Far-Right Internet Memes", In: Berkeley Center for the Right-Wing Studies Working Paper Series, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zd6f7g9#main.
"Saving Heroism in the Online Sphere - The Heroic in Far-Right Internet Memes", Online Conference for
Research on Male Supremacism and Right-Wing Studies, Institute for Research on Male Supremacism &
Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"Remember the Fallen - rechte Selbstironie in den 'Meme Wars' und das Verführungspotenzial von Anti-PC Humor". In: Freie Assoziation. Zeitschrift für psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie, 23 (1 + 2), 112-116.
''When You're Telling Your Grandkids All About the Meme Wars You Fought in...' - The Invention of Online War Stories", Webinar of the SLA Committee on Language and Social Justice, American Society for Linguistic
Anthropology
"Altering Heroism - A Psychosocial Inquiry into Rightwing Internet Meme Culture", Online Working Group,
Center for Right-Wing Studies & Institute for Research on Male Supremacism", University of California,
Berkeley
"Maybe the real Reich was the friends we made along the way. Sehnsucht nach kameradschaftlicher Solidarität und Brüderlichkeit in den 'Great Meme Wars"', Online Conference, Universities of Munich, Tübingen, Cologne & Leipzig
"Alt-Knight'? - Die neue Rechte im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem 'Heroischen' und dem 'Postheroischen', Colloquium for Political Theory, University of Bremen
"The New Vertical". In: PaperWork Magazine, http://www.paperworkmagazine.com/, London.

"Kopfsprünge. Zwischen Nomadentum und Sesshaftigkeit - Ein Brief". In: Lagaay, Alice/Seitz, Anna (Eds.), Wissen Formen. Performative Akte zwischen Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kunst. Erkundungen mit dem Theater
der Versammlung. Bielefeld: transcript, 84-87.
"Weltkulturerbe oder Idolatrie? - Die Zerstörung von kulturellem Erbe im Irak durch den IS". In: Polylog, Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, 38, 103-115.
"A Show of Hyper-Piety? - IS' Destruction of World Heritage and the Outcry of the International Public", Performance Philosophy Conference "Ethos, Ethics, and Ethnography", University of Prag
"Grey in Grey". In: Archipelago, 4, 41. London.
"Worlding Heritage - The Politics of Objects", Internationale Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie "Kraft, Macht und Gewalt der Bilder in interkultureller Perspektive", University of Vienna
"The Plural Temporality of the Notion of the Primitive", Postgraduate Conference "New Directions for Political Thought", SOAS University of London
"Worlding Heritage - The Politics of Objects", Postgraduate Conference "Political Theory at the Margins" Oxford University

PUBLICATIONS (EXHIBITION)

2021

Was das Gespenst nicht kennt – Specters of the Afternoon. Villa Esche, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Published by: Frédéric Bußmann, Angelika Waniek, Clemens von Wedemeyer

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

2024
2023
2018 – 2022

2011 – 2015

2012 – 2013

 

ars viva-Preis für Bildende Kunst 2025 (Shortlist)
Best Experimental at the AltFF Alternative Film Festival (Category Award Nominee)

PhD Scholarship, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation

Erasmus Scholarship

MEMBERSHIPS

Since 2022

Since 2022

Since 2019

Member of the International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis

Member of the Society of Psychoanalytic Social Psychology (GfpS)

Member of the artist-run initiative Kino in Bewegung/Cinema in Movement (http://kinoinbewegung.de), Leipzig

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