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Katalin Erdődi is a curator, dramaturg and researcher based in Vienna and Budapest, who works across disciplines, in the fields of contemporary art and performance. Interested in socially engaged art, experimental performative practices and interventions in public space, she realizes projects in different formats, ranging from performance through exhibition-making to more site-specific and collaborative approaches that explore the possibilities of art as social practice and as a tool for knowledge production. Her most recent work explores processes of rural change and post-socialist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, through collaborative artistic and curatorial practice, with a particular focus on Hungary. In 2020 she received the Igor Zabel Award Grant for her locally embedded and inclusive curatorial practice.
Erdődi has worked as a curator for art institutions and festivals, such as steirischer herbst (Graz), Impulse Theater Festival (Düsseldorf/Köln/Mülheim), brut/imagetanz festival (Vienna), GfZK - Museum of Contemporary Art (Leipzig) and Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest). She is the co-founder of PLACCC Festival (Budapest), an international festival for site-specific performance and art in public space that she co-curated from 2008 to 2011. As a dramaturg Erdődi collaborates with various artists, including Philipp Gehmacher, Sonja Jokiniemi, Igor and Ivan Buharov, Gin Müller, Amanda Piña, Oleg Soulimenko, Sööt/Zeyringer and Doris Uhlich.
Recent curatorial projects include Watermelon Republic, a collaborative 'village play' co-created with artist Antje Schiffers/Myvillages, actress Orsolya Török-Illyés, documentary filmmaker Máté Kőrösi and local inhabitants of a watermelon producing region in Southern Hungary (Thealter Festival Szeged, 2021), which forms part of a larger international cooperation Rural Productive Forces, co-conceived by Erdődi and Schiffers; News Medley, in collaboration with artist Alicja Rogalska, folk singer Réka Annus and the Women’s Choir of Kartal, presented in the form of an exhibition and a performance in urban public space (OFF Biennale Budapest, 2020-2021); I like being a farmer and I would like to stay one with artist Antje Schiffers and three farmers from Hungary (Ludwig Museum Budapest, 2017-2018). This research forms part of her PhD-in-practice in Curating at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the University of Reading (2016-on-going), dissertation title: Working Towards a Rural Agonistics - Curating Critical Rural Art Practices as Counterpublics.
María do Mar Castro Varela is Professor of General Education and Social Work at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. She holds a degree in psychology, a degree in education, and a doctorate in political science. Among other positions, she was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Science of Man (IWM) in 2015/16 and held the Sir Peter Ustinov Visiting Professorship at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna in winter 2021/22.
Her research interests include queer studies, postcolonial theory, critical migration and education studies, trauma, and conspiracy narratives. María do Mar is also a member of the research group "Radiating Globality" led by Gayatri C. Spivak, founder and member of bildungsLab* (bildungsla.net), Chair of the Berlin Institute for Counterpoint Social Analysis (BIKA) and Principal Investigator of the research project DigitalerHass (IFAF).
Born in Ankara in 1970, Aslı Kışlal has been living in Vienna since 1990. She studied sociology at the University of Vienna and Drama at the Schubert Konservatorium, graduating from the latter in 1995. Since 1991 she has had engagements at Theater der Jugend, Akzent Theater, Kosmos Theater and Theaterhaus Stuttgart, to name just a few. She has also worked as a director at Landestheater Linz and Staatstheater Mainz, among others. She has held various kinds of theatre workshop in the cities of Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Vienna and Rome, and in Finland as well as other locations. In 2004 she founded the arts and culture association daskunst in Vienna, with which she won the Spectrum Theatre Festival’s ‘best of Austria’ prize in 2007. In 2008 she was the joint initiator of Kunst am Grund, and from 2009 - 2010 she was the artistic director of the Theater des Augenblicks. From 2011 – 2012 she was the initiator and curator of the Viennese post-migrant project series PIMP MY INTEGRATION. In 2014 she received the MiA Award for her commitment to the arts and culture. In 2013 she founded diverCITYLAB, a project in the field of arts policy masquerading as an academy for drama and performance. From 2022 the academy disestablished itself in order to realise a wide range of projects on the basis of what had been learned.