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Originally from the Bergische Land (Nordrhein-Westfalen), I studied German literature, history and communication at the Freie Universität Berlin. As part of my undergraduate programme I went on an Erasmus exchange to the University of Vienna. After my Magister Artium I completed a doctorate in German literature. Having worked as a tutor for GfL (German as a Foreign Language) in the private sector in Berlin, I went to the University of Sheffield as DAAD-Lektorin in 2012. In autumn 2016 I came to 鶹.
Teaching
At the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin I offered several modules on Political Studies and German Literature of the 20th century. As a DAAD-Lektor at the University of Sheffield (2012-2016) I taught modules on contemporary German culture and media, post-wall German art, film and performance, as well as modules on contemporary German literature. Alongside this research led teaching, I have been teaching German language at all levels (ab initio to near native competence) since 2011. At 鶹 I continue teaching German language at all levels, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in my field of research expertise, this includes e.g. the modules "Culture in Context" (LXE 1600); "The German Film" (LXG 2008), "Performing Germany" (LXG 3036), "German Avant-Garde" (LXM 4037) and "Critical Theory" (LXM 4001).
In my teaching, I prefer to integrate artistic practices, such as Happenings and Creative Writing exercises. I was nominated for the Special Recognition Award.
Research
My current research interests are 20th and 21st century Avant Garde, with a focus on performance. Here, my core research considers the German film maker, theatre director and actionist artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010).
I critically re-read hegemonic theories of the Avant Garde to make them receptive for contemporary process-oriented art practices as investigations into political, social, and ecological dynamics of our contemporary world. Interdisciplinary collaboration and a co-creative methodology enables me to find a new language for a concise understanding of the dynamics unleashed by the various localised forms of artistic engagements we find today, often stemming from or referring to (trans)national Avant Garde(s).
Since 2020, I mostly pursue collaborative and co-created research with artist communities in Wales and beyond. I have a particularly interest in Welsh artist Paul Davies (1949-1993), founding member of pivotal art group Becca ("Welsh Not" at 1977 National Eisteddfod in Wrexham) and a core agent of the less visible tradition of socially-engaged art in Wales. Thanks to Paul Davies' family gift to 鶹 archive, an AHRC funded CDP PhD is now able to look into a core chapter of post-war art history in North Wales. Thanks to support from Welsh Water and Anglesey Council we were able to re-discover a formerly forgotten massive land art sculpture by Paul Davies at Llyn Alaw reservoir. My research has been enabling a significant number of artists to launch or take further their artist careers, win residencies, Arts Council funding or commissions from national institutions (National Museum Wales), and engage with their audiences in thorough and sustainable relationships. My research generated academic and artistic outputs, ranging from peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, international conferences to art exhibitions, art residencies and performances.
I am also engaged in diversifying the critical thinking methods in academia by engageing with artistic research methods. In this context I co-founded the Avant Garde experimental art collective , kindly supported by .
One further creative writing projects is a performative writing exercise in which both Welsh and German are explored in their shared knowledge about Fluxus art. For this purpose, I invented a new literary genre called "". This critical method is informed by Avant Garde strategies and has shown suitable for uncovering hidden knowledge in language.
Further research interests lie in the interrelations of literature and architecture and, more generally, in the history, culture, politics and literature of post-1945 Germany, including the former GDR. In my doctoral thesis I look at metaphors of building and dwelling in post-war and contemporary German literature and culture. In addition I am interested in contemporary German literature in general.
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
Publications
2024
- Accepted/In press
Pogoda, S., 15 May 2024, (Accepted/In press) Schlingensief-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. J.B.Metzler
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review - Accepted/In press
Pogoda, S., 15 May 2024, (Accepted/In press) Schlingensief-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review - Accepted/In press
Pogoda, S., 15 May 2024, (Accepted/In press) Schlingensief-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. J.B.Metzler
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review - Accepted/In press
Pogoda, S., 15 May 2024, (Accepted/In press) Schlingensief-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. J.B.Metzler
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 2024, Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture. Rhys, M. & Francois, L. (eds.). Leuven University Press, .2
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 6 Jun 2024, Kunstszene gegen rechte Szene: Cultural Responses to the Far-Right in Contemporary Germany. Twist, J. (ed.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 27-52
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2023
- Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 2 Jun 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - Published
Pogoda, S., 13 Jul 2023, In: Polyphonie Mehrsprachigkeit_Kreativität_Schreiben.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Accepted/In press
Pogoda, S. & Colbourne, L., 15 Jun 2023, (Accepted/In press) Bridging distance in the Creative Industries.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 1 May 2023, In: Musil-Forum. Studien zur Literatur der klassischen Moderne. 37, p. 391-395
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 1 Apr 2023, In: [rezens.tfm]. 2023, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 1 Oct 2023, In: TRANSPOSITIONES. Zeitschrift für transdisziplinäre und intermediale Kulturforschung. 2, 2, p. 75-90
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
- Published
Pogoda, S., 27 Dec 2022, Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive: Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 9). Peter Lang, p. 303-307 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 16 Apr 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 9 Jun 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 30 Jun 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 2 Jun 2022
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - Published
Pogoda, S., 29 Dec 2022, Wege der Germanistik in Transkultureller Perspektive: Akten des XIV. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Palermo 2021. Bd.9. Auteri, L. (ed.). Peter Lang, p. 383-401 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2021
- Published
Pogoda, S., 15 Nov 2021, Arbeit am Bild: Christoph Schlingensief und die Tradition: Schlingensief and Tradition. Scheinpflug, P. & Wortmann, T. (eds.). Fink Verlag, p. 43-66
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), Samina Ali, Lisa Hudson, Lindsey Colbourne & Wanda Zyborska, 9 Nov 2021
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products - Published
Pogoda, S., 16 Dec 2021, In: Forum Modernes Theater. 32, 2, p. 308-310
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., Oct 2021, In: Gegenwartsliteratur. Ein germanistisches Jahrbuch (A German Studies Yearbook).. 20
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., Jan 2021, Klassengesellschaft reloaded und das Ende der menschlichen Gattung.: Fragen an Heiner Müller. Strehlow, F. & Ette, W. (eds.). Theater der Zeit, p. 139-169 30 p. (Recherchen; no. 154).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2020
- Published
Pogoda, S., 15 Apr 2020
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site - Published
Pogoda, S., 4 May 2020, Cine-Excess, 4.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 23 Aug 2020
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - Published
Pogoda, S., 1 Aug 2020, Christoph Schlingensief: Resonanzen. Höving, V., Wortmann, T. & Holweck, K. (eds.). Munich: text+kritik, p. 154-171
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2019
- Published
Walton, S. P., Williams, C., Pogoda, S., Reynolds, D., Gerson, S. A., Foltz, A. & Begum, T., 20 Jun 2019, In: Frontiers in Communication. 4, 14 p., 28.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 25 Mar 2019, Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde. Knapp, L., Lindholm, S. & Pogoda, S. (eds.). Fink Verlag
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 2 Jun 2019
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance
2018
- Published
Pogoda, S. (Other), 29 Aug 2018
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
2017
- Published
Pogoda, S. & Traxler, R., Nov 2017, Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin. Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. (eds.). Berghahn Books
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 28 Jun 2017, Art of Wagnis: Christoph Schlingensief’s Crossing of Wagner and Africa. Lehmann, F., Siegert, N. & Vierke, U. (eds.). Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, p. 77-88
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2015
- Published
Knapp, L. & Pogoda, S., 2015, In: Germanistische Mitteilungen. 41, 1, p. 75-89
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - Published
Pogoda, S., 11 May 2015
Research output: Non-textual form › Performance - Published
Pogoda, S., 2015
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
2014
- Published
Pogoda, S., 2014, Text-Architekturen: Die Baukunst der Literatur. Krause, R. & Zemanek, E. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 223-236 14 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2013
- Published
Pogoda, S., 1 Sept 2013, Berlin: Ripperger & Kremers . 352 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2011
- Published
Pogoda, S., 2011, Verfolgt und umstritten! : Remigrierte Künstler im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Grisko, M. & Wenzel, H. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 213-222 9 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
2009
- Published
Pogoda, S., 2009, In: Mauerschau. 2, 2, p. 45-59 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2008
- Published
Pogoda, S., 2008, Literatur der Jahrtausendwende: Themen, Schreibverfahren und Buchmarkt um 2000. Zemanek, E. & Krones, S. (eds.). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, p. 225-234 9 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
2025
Analysing the use dialogue in postdramatic settings.
14 Sep 2025 – 17 Sep 2025
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Delivered paper "Treesense Experimental School :Treefysgol or Trivial?"
12 Feb 2025 – 14 Feb 2025
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Paper at Conference "The Counter-University"
12 Feb 2025 – 14 Feb 2025
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
2024
Sustainable language teaching, including Lektor scheme.
Speakers: Deidre Byrne, Sarah Pogoda, Sarah Hudspith, Helmut Schmitz
7 Nov 2024
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Contributor)Workshop together with artists Sian Barlow and Wanda Zyborska. Introducing two Avant Garde projects that challenge practices of archives and museums, and creating a public intervention taking forward insides from workshop. Artists refering to were Marcel Duchamp and Christoph Schlignensief.
12 Oct 2024
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Presentation on creative teaching and assessment in Modern Languages
19 Sep 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Workshop/Collabotory aiming to produce a seris of potcards/scores to be exhibited/used for the commissioned cabinet exhibition in Storiel by Carrig Creative/Utopias Bach responding to art works by Paul Davies in the Amgueddfa Cymru collection (Mappa Mundi, Map Beca). Srah Pogoda gave conceptual input and a talk about the "genre" of scores in post 1960 art and Paul Davies.
24 Aug 2024
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Member of editorial team for 2 volume "Heiner Müller Handbook"
15 Jul 2024 →
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)Lecture Performance and Workshop on Artistic Research and teaching in German Studies at the Annual DAAD Conference. Invited talk.
25 May 2024
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Part of the curational team for Storiel commission for "Sgwrs Chwilgar: Curious Conversation" (run by Carreg Creative).
1 Mar 2024 – 19 Oct 2024
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Interviewed on Rediscovering Map of Wales sculpture at Llyn Alaw for Aled Hughes radio programme, broadcasted 6.2.2024
6 Feb 2024
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2023
External Examiner for the German Degree at Cardiff University
1 Sep 2023 →
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Presenting Paper on Creative Research and Teaching in Modern Languages and Cultures at the Annual AGS Conference.
31 Aug 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Hosting visit from artist initiative from Germany + organising and chairing networking event for Women Artists in Wales and in Germany.
17 Jul 2023
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Performance by Cysylltu Project (artistic lead: El Davies) at Map of Wales land art sculpture by Paul Davies at Llyn Alaw (Ynys Mon). Site-specific performance (music, dance, clay, cutting) for exploring the human and more than human site of the land art and the reservoire habitat.
Performance was filmed by Culture Colony for footage on documentary about Paul Davies' sculpture. Performance also informed the comprehensive art project (exhibition and performance) by Cysylltu at Pontio in January 2024.
4 Jul 2023
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Invited Performance and Paper.
Working Titles:
Performance: Adornos Nos. Grazing Graz.
Paper: Neue Walisische Kritik: Von "Horkheimers Capoeira" zu "vom zeigen des zeigens".
1 Jun 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)I presented a paper entitled "The Buoy in the Elevator – Artistic Research into Heiner Müller’s Posthuman Utopia"
24 Apr 2023
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Talks, discussions and practice with artists to learnt about traditions of Avantgarde in Wales and how they (can) resonate in (their) contemporary practice.
Two workshops with local artists about contemporary Avant Garde practices in April 2023, texted how artists can relate their practices and concepts to transcultural traditions and apply it to contemporary Wales. The workshop resulted in the performance Berw Pren Berw // Birch - Birch Wood, on 4.5.2023 at Art Kiosk Pontio, and will taken further at the January 2024 Cysylltu project. This development strenghend RQs for the AHRC application.
12 Apr 2023
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Performance by Welsh Avant Garde artists "Good Cop Bad Cop" at Map of Wales land art sculpture at Llyn Alaw (by Paul Davies). Involved scything, R.S. Thomas poetry intervention and referening Paul Davies iconoic 1977 Eisteddfod Welsh Not performance. Filmed by Culture Colony as footage for documentary.
19 Feb 2023
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2022
Collaborative Seminar with University of Bielefeld (Germany)
6 Dec 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation (Contributor)Co-organising conference and presenting paper.
3 Dec 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Organising collaboration with artist collective "Utopias Bach" for Being Human Festival 2023. Explorative Workshop for experimenting in fun ways to relate to the world around us and think about how and whether we really listen to our more-than-human environment. It was a follow up from collaborations and research into new forms of artistic engagement with the human and more-than-human.
19 Nov 2022
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Co-performance with Wanda Zyborska and Lisa Hudson (artists) for performing an autopsy on the Avant Garde, informed by insights from previous artistic research into the question of contemporary practices appropriating or vitalising Avant Garde(s).
16 Nov 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Organising collaboration with artist collective "Utopias Bach" for Being Human Festival 2023. Explorative Workshop for experimenting in fun ways to relate to the world around us and think about how and whether we really listen to our more-than-human environment. It was a follow up from collaborations and research into new forms of artistic engagement with the human and more-than-human.
12 Nov 2022
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Lecture Performance on Art, Inclusivity and "NWK" (Celf Newydd Cymru, New Welsh Art).
2 Nov 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Invited visit to EHB University (Berlin, Germany)
31 Oct 2022 – 5 Nov 2022
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher)Panel Member for Final Session
11 Oct 2022
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Knowledge Exchange and Networking Meeting with European Associations for German Studies
28 Sep 2022
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups (Contributor)Presenting paper entitled: "Die Flucht des Ausdrucks vor dem Zwang zum Sinn in dem multimedial-literarischen Forschungsprojekt Verifiktion"
27 Sep 2022
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Float some, Jettison other.
Fluxus by Buoys, Beuys and NWK (Neue Walisische Kunst)
From Ynys Faelog to Wylffa B, from Menai Bridge to Nagasaki, from Pontio to Pentraeth, buoys navigate us through tides and times, marking hidden hazards and safe shelters.
Anchored in local history, the buoys on display drift with currents of global history or they delimit visitors exploring the altitudes of radiant aesthetics and flux semantics. All artworks home in local history and its global wavelengths.
This exhibition is result of artistic research into process-oriented trajectories semiotic translations of the Avant Garde to Northwest Wales.
9 Sep 2022 – 19 Sep 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Combined Arts Festival
19 Aug 2022 – 21 Aug 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Performance and introductionary talk to Wim Wender‘s 1974 film "Alice in the Cities" at Pontio (鶹).
Providing missing links between Wim Wender‘s and the city of Wuppertal (Germany).
31 Jul 2022
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Presenting paper "Fluxus is Luxus. Translating Avant Garde into Wales" at "Hopefiul Modernism" conference
25 Jun 2022
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We are delighted to invite you to an open conversation with artists Lindsey Colbourne, Peter Davies, Lisa Hudson, Pete Telfer and Wanda Zyborska.
Together we will dive into a conversation about contemporary arts practices in Wales and their predecessors. We would be delighted if you want to join our conversation and share your memories of arts events which stayed with you throughout years and decades.
Where and when: 鶹, Pontio, PL2, 22.6.2022, 5:30-7pm.
* In 1972, German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys decided to contribute a durational performance of 100 days to the Documenta 5 (Art World Exhibition in Kassel, Germany). For the so-called Office for Direct Democracy Beuys spent 100 days discussing together with visitors various social design issues relating to direct democracy. Conversation as art. To some extent, we will draw on his idea of art as emerging through conversation.
One of my arts memories which stayed with me was the so-called “Boxing Match for Direct Art” in May 2021 on Ynys Faelog in Menai Bridge. Joseph Beuys and Max Boyce fought for Direct Art as Direct Debit. By doing that Beuys and Boyce somehow re-enacted the “Boxing Match for Direct Democracy” which Joseph Beuys and Abraham David Christian fought on the very Documenta 5 on October 8 1972. Beuys won – both times.
22 Jun 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)Do you remember when Paul Davies (Grwp Beca) and a group of arts students from the Arts foundation course at 鶹 went to Llyn Alaw on Anglesey for co-creating a muddy Map of Wales? Or do you remember 1977 when Meredydd Davies, Maeyc Hewitt, Wil Jones, Stephen Davies, Celyn Davies and Alan Holmes and others shot their Super 8 splatter films in various locations around 鶹? Or have you been on High Street in June 2021, when Rhona Bowey, Lindsey Colbourne, Lisa Hudson, Emily Meilleur, Steph Shipley and Wanda Zyborska, all dressed as social -distancing crones roamed 鶹, handing out cake and plants? Or maybe you witnessed how – one lockdown day in 2020, a silver when a group of five crone dressed women were handing out cake and flowers on 鶹 High Street, or do you recall a silver Suzuki Alto was floating through Maesgeirchen, its drivers spreading poetry into the streets with a megaphone?
Wales bears millions of these odd moments, when something not quite normal happens, art emerges and changes place and time, sometimes only for a short moment, sometimes for weeks, sometimes forever. But too often these moments are not well documented, remain oral history or anecdotes ... or often fall into oblivion. Oblivion ... too often a Welsh thing.
We want to change this, we seek for bringing these moments back to life ... in conversations, in revisiting sites, in re-enacting – and we are seeking for making the past, the present and the future dance together. Maybe we will realise that there is a Welsh tradition of Avant-Garde art practices out there – maybe under the radar, but as relevant as ever.
Sarah Pogoda invites artists, members of the community and academics to explore Avant-Garde arts practices in Wales, their history and our memories of predecessors. With a series of events – ranging from performances, discussions, artistic experiments to talks – Sarah wishes to start the collective exploration this early summer. Please do join her. All events are free of charge, some are bi-lingual, some might not, some are multi-lingual, some are not.
If you cannot make it to one of the events, but you still have stories, documents, photos, film or other you want share, please get in touch with Sarah.
1 Jun 2022 – 31 Jul 2022
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Presenting paper: Metamorffosis – Multiformale Expeditionen in, mit und durch The More Than Human
27 May 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Presenting paper "Reading the Neoliberal University as a Socialist Production Play"
6 May 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)The focus of the project is on how experimental process and procedure in art and writing, influenced by the avant-gardes of the twentieth century, may be newly imagined in a local and global post-pandemic context. Such modes are no longer linked to specific avant-garde groupings, but offer a means of exploring potential in language and materials, and relationships to the environment, to place. For example, the techniques of Oulipo and Fluxus may be appreciated anew as a means of critiquing and understanding the limitations and potential of human autonomy, including the large-scale effects of humans on the environment. How can process-based writing and site-specific performance help us to understand the wider distribution of agency and meaning beyond the human? Could this lead to better ecological understanding? How can this critique of subjectivity help to inform scientific processes?
Funding awarded through the 鶹 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £33,012
4 May 2022 – 30 Apr 2023
Activity: Other (Contributor)Invited Talk at Centre for Modern Language Research Seminar at the University of Aberdeen
30 Mar 2022
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Has Covid-19 killed the live event? Many in the Creative Industries fear so (e.g. Biado: 2020), and there is evidence to suggest that audiences will only gradually return (e.g. Audience Agency 2021). The creative responses from arts practitioners during the Covid-19 lockdowns are therefore likely to be central to the revitalisation of public engagement with live arts events following the pandemic. Can we say with confidence: ‘Long live the live event!’? Post-Covid, the live event will certainly be different. Our online conference aims to share ideas, experiences and findings around new kinds of art event. We are particularly interested in small scale events which are not mainly pursued online. Together we will explore the diverse creative responses which have emerged to meet the challenges presented by the pandemic in relation to live events, audience engagement and the creation of ‘liveness’. The online conference will bring together arts practitioners, audiences, stakeholders, funders and researchers.
21 Feb 2022 – 22 Feb 2022
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Peer Reviewer for Peter Lang
8 Feb 2022 – 1 Dec 2022
Activity: Publication peer-review (Editorial board member)
2021
Exhibition which explored more than human agency and how non-living things trigger re-imagining our relationship to the world.
29 Nov 2021 – 18 Dec 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)I am presenting a paper on Christoph Schlingensief's theatre production "100 Years of the CDU" (1993, Volksbühne Berlin), entitled Wer, wie, was—Lässt sich Schlingensief heute noch verstehen. Ein Versuch
zu “100 Jahre CDU. Spiel ohne Grenzen
3 Oct 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Invited to screen my film "The BUoy in the Elevator" (a production of NWK).
5 Sep 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Kongressakten der IVG im Jahrbuch für Germanistik - Sektion 21 "Kontinuitäten der Avantgarde seit 1900"
1 Aug 2021 – 30 May 2022
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)Organisation and Facilitating Section on Traditions of the Avantgarde from the 18th century until today and presenting a paper on the experimental blog "Verifiktion".
30 Jul 2021 – 31 Jul 2021
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)An international festival for Gwynedd and Anglesey for exploring new and experimental arts formats (film, music, art, performance, poetry, dance, puppetry, photography et.al.) to sustain arts communities during a pandemic. Part of the AHRC funded research project "Re-Inventing The Live Event".
21 Jun 2021 – 27 Jun 2021
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)A Festival in Gwynedd and on Anglesey exploring new and experimental formats developed by arts practitioners under Covid-19 restrictions for live events (indoors and outdoors). Music, Art, Performance, Dance, Film, Happenings, Talks, Workshops and more.
21 Jun 2021 – 27 Jun 2021
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In this unit students learned about one of the most radical European art movements from early 20th century: Dada. They got an idea how Dada was an artistic response to World War I. By looking at representative art works they gained insights on how Dada’s open-minded and multi-lingual nature generated a transformative force which is still echoing in today’s world. Some DIY activities made them challenge their understanding of art and might have resulted in them re-inventing themselves as a Dadaist. At the end of this unit, we discussed on how language learning is not only about communicating with others from all over the world, but how it is also an entrance point to so far unknown spaces of creativity, critical thinking and fun.
18 Jan 2021
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
2020
Interactive Workshop with collaborating local artists to introduce Fluxus, Neue Walisische Kunst (NWK) and share ideas how art changes with Covid-19.
16 Nov 2020
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Member of TAZ Jury
11 Nov 2020 – 12 Nov 2020
Activity: Membership of committee (Chair)AGS Treasurer
1 Sep 2020 →
Activity: Membership of committee (Chair)For Artistic Practice Based PhD
28 Jul 2020
Activity: Examination (Examiner)Verifiktion ist ein Wortspiel aus den Begriffen Verifikation und Fiktion. Der Begriff soll die Amalgamierung der Bereiche der Wissenschaft und der Kunst verkörpern, ist also der künstlerischen Forschung zuzuordnen. Zugleich nimmt er sich seiner selbst als Paradoxon – ein Verifiktiontext behauptet gewissermaßen auf Grund seiner Fiktionalität einen Sachverhalt zu beglaubigen, also zu verifizieren. Darin angelegt ist auch die Verunsicherung, was ein wahrer Sachverhalt ist und wo die Erfahrung von Wirklichkeit beginnt: im Handeln oder im Denken (=Schreiben).
Hinzuzufügen ist: Wir sind der Freundschaft verpflichtet, eingeschworen auf das Deutsch-Walisische (siehe Veriguhtvränds).
20 Apr 2020 →
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2019
Presenting Paper on Artistic Research Project "The Redundancy", entitled: "Künstlerische Forschung im Unvereinbaren. Die neoliberale Universität als sozialistisches Produktionsstück"
10 Sep 2019 – 11 Sep 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Giving a Lecture Performance on my Artistic Research Project "The Redundancy" at "Cracking the established Order" conference in Leicester.
26 Jun 2019 – 27 Jun 2019
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This public lecture is part of a Gallery series of public talks on "Art and Words". My lecture performance will introduce the audience to aesthetic strategies of the Dada-movement (early 20th century) within the tradition of the Avant Garde. Here, I will particularly focus how Dada coaxed the creative power of words beyond their common mean to communicate meaning.
8 Jun 2019
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by Weber, Virno, Fraser, Negri and Hardt, the paper will critically engage with aesthetic tactics and strategies for institutional critique and transformation in contemporary theatre and performance. Here, I will discuss works by German Christoph Schlingensief, and the Stuttgart based project The Institution as “instituent practices” (Raunig).
2 May 2019
Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)Sich einrichten. Zur Poetik und Semiotik des Wohnens seit 1850", Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kulturtheorie und Semiotik (SGKS)
11 Apr 2019 – 13 Apr 2019
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Book Launch: Anna Saunder "The Memorialization of the GDR".
Author (Prof. Anna Saunders) in conversation with Sarah Pogoda
31 Jan 2019
Activity: Other (Contributor)This student-led research and outreach project aims to create a documentary film on stories of German migrants in Gwynedd and Anglesey. The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures won an intern who will reach out to the German speaking Community in North Wales, research people´s migrational biographies. Collaborative the intern will shoot a documentary to give this group of North Wales community its voices and images. In challenging times for migration stories we want to strengthen our links with the community.
28 Jan 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
Activity: Other (Advisor)Presentation on my Artistic Research Project in the context of the one day networking workshop "Building a Collaborative Artistic Research Alliance"
24 Jan 2019
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)
2018
I will talk about my involvement with Artistic Research and Public Engagement (e.g. with the "Bellotograph Project in Sheffield 2015 - www.bellotograph.jimdo.com -, or the Exhibition "Lighthouses into Futurity" in 鶹 2018). My talk will include critical revision of activities and future prospects for Artistic Research and Public Engagement by drawing on post-marxist theories on New Labor and Creative Industries.
25 Oct 2018
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Exhibition and Event 29.8.2018-12.9.2018 in Pontio, 鶹, tri-lingual (Welsh, German, and English), including short stories, minute films and talk with artist.
Exhibition introduces the work of Germany´s most influential living writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge to a Welsh audience for the first time.
Alexander Kluge is one of the main figures in New German Cinema, Critical Theory and Storytelling in the 21st Century.
Exhibition includes a booklet.
29 Aug 2018 – 12 Sep 2018
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Video Interview with influential German writer, film maker and intellectual Alexander Kluge
21 Jul 2018
Activity: Other (Contributor)Presenting paper on "Reden über das Bild als Archäologie des Selbst bei Christoph Schlingensief"
18 May 2018
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Presented academic introduction into the Film "Marianne and Juliane" ("The Two Sisters"/ Die bleierne Zeit)
6 May 2018
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)Presentation on Heiner Müller´s speech "Die Wunde Woyzeck" (1985) and his understanding of Woyzeck in class struggle
20 Jan 2018
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)I am organizing and chairing a panel on theories of the avant garde
1 Jan 2018 – 2 Aug 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2017
This project aims to test the following two hypotheses:
1. Interactive video games are an impactful way to disseminate research and educate the public on the complexities of climate science.
2. The choice of language used to communicate climate science can have a significant impact on the success of communicating climate science.
1 Dec 2017 – 31 Aug 2018
Activity: Other (Contributor)WIGS was established in 1988 with the aim of bringing together female Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland and supporting them in all aspects of their professional life. Membership is open to any woman who is currently teaching, studying, or working in any area of German Studies, or who has done so in the past.
1 Jun 2017 →
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Welsh Crucible is an award-winning programme of personal, professional and leadership development for the future research leaders of Wales.
Funded by a consortium of Welsh universities, in partnership with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, there is a high demand for places on Welsh Crucible from researchers who are beginning to demonstrate excellence in their respective fields.
Every year, 30 researchers are selected to participate in a series of residential workshops or ‘skills labs’ where participants explore how they can benefit from working with researchers in other disciplines, how their research can have greater impact, and how they can build international research careers in Wales. Participants continue to build collaborations with each other beyond the formal programme and the Welsh Crucible alumni network enables connections to be made between cohorts.
25 May 2017 – 14 Jul 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)26 Apr 2017
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)Co-Editor of edited volume: Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde
1 Feb 2017 – 31 Dec 2018
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)Co-Editor of "Christoph Schlingensief und die Avantgarde"
21 Jan 2017 – 30 Sep 2018
Activity: Editorial activity (Editorial board member)
2016
Invited Paper to talk about the relations between art, avant-garde and politics in the work of Christoph Schlingensief
5 May 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)Co-Organisor with Jasmin Degeling, Dr. Lore Knapp. Participant with Paper Chair for Introductory Panel and Final Remarks
1 Feb 2016 – 4 Feb 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)
2015
Artistic Research project which explored practices of commemoration in the UK and Germany in respect to the end of WWII. Practices and theories of post-memory were explored by academics, artists, students and the public in three different events (Happening, Round-Table and Artistic Workshop).
8 May 2015 – 12 May 2015
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Projects
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01/10/2023 – 31/10/2027 (Active)
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01/06/2021 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/12/2017 – 01/08/2019 (Finished)