Johanna Maj Schmidt (*09/02/92) is an artist and researcher based in Leipzig.
EDUCATION
Since 2018
Since 2017
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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
Media Art (currently Class Expanded Cinema, Clemens von Wedemeyer), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
MA Art and Politics, Goldsmiths University of London (Distinction); Intercollegiate Student at the MSc Programme Comparative Political Thought, SOAS, London
BA Politics, English-Speaking Cultures, Performance Studies, University of Bremen (First)
Exchange Student at Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Cracow
SHOWS/EVENTS
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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, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
KBK Routine, HGB, Leipzig
Rundgang, HGB, Leipzig
1937 - 2017: Von Entarteter Kunst zu Entstellter Kunst, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
Tod und Verzweiflung, HGB, Leipzig
Screening- & Reading Event, Kino in Bewegung, with Karlheinz & Angela Steinmüller & Ann Cotten, Bautzen
Final Draft / Drift, 15. Lindenow Festival, Westpol Airspace, Leipzig
Research Exhibition #2, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
Research Exhibition #1, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
Am Nerv der Demokratie, 5th Soundcheck Philosophie Festival, LOFFT, Leipzig
3rd NSK Folk Art Biennale, Trbovlje, Slovenia
Glam Slam! 2, Cabaret Voltaire, Athens
Rundgang, HGB, Leipzig
Performer, Museum der Bildenden Künste @Excercises for a Monument (Carsten Saeger), Leipzig
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, 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
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"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/a/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 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.
“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
MEMBERSHIPS
Since 2019
Member of the artist-run initiative Kino in Bewegung/Cinema in Movement (http://kinoinbewegung.de), Leipzig
SCHOLARSHIPS
Since 2018
2011 – 2015
2012 – 2013
PhD Scholarship, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Scholarship, Heinrich Böll Foundation
Erasmus Scholarship