Yana Prinsloo M.A.

I am a research assistant in the project “Staging Differences” and at the Department for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies (FTMK) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. I studied theater studies and musicology in Mainz and Vienna. My master thesis on processes of judgment and opinion formation in contemporary theater was published by Tectum-Verlag in 2017.

My research interests
I conduct research on work discourses in contemporary theater in the independent scene, on the associated interdependencies of invisible and visible work in the artistic and social field. My research interests include
production and cultural-political issues of theatre work, gender studies, dance, as well as immersive and participatory art forms.

Publications

Reset Postmodernity? Das (not) doing opinion im Angesicht der ent-sinnten Gegenwart. Marburg: Tectum 2017.

Promoting Social Security in the Performing Arts. A survey on Good-Practice-Examples in Europe on behalf of the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V. (German Association of Independent Performing Arts) 2023, gem. mit Jonathan Roth.

Theaterarbeit als Reproduktionsarbeit. Über spekulatives Fabulieren im pandemischen Theater. In: Benjamin Wihstutz, Daniele Vecchiato und Mirjam Kreuser (Hg.): #CoronaTheater. Der Wandel der performativen Künste in der Pandemie. Berlin: Theater der Zeit 2022, S. 178-190.

Lectures

Reparieren, Pflegen und Verschalten – Glitch Performance als Practice of Urgency.
15. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Theaterwissenschaft (GTW) “matters of urgency”, 2022 Berlin.

SHIFTING CENTRES BEHIND THE CURTAINS – THEATRE WORK AS RE/PRODUCTION. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), 2022 Reykjavik.

Sell yourself (!) as an artistic strategy. Workshop "‘IMAGINING THE SITUATION‘ – WIE WISSEN RE/PRODUZIERT, BEZEUGT UND PERFORMT WIRD", 2022 Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Foto: Stephanie Füssenich