Bojana Kunst

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Bojana Kunst is a philosopher, dramaturg and performance theoretician. She works as a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she is leading an international master program Choreography and Performance. She was a researcher at the University of Ljubljana and a guest researcher at the University of Antwerp (2002). She was a DAAD guest professor at the University of Hamburg (2009 – 2012). She has lectured and taught seminars, workshops and laboratories in various academic institutions, theatres and artistic organizations across Europe, and has continuously worked with independent artistic initiatives and groups of artists. Her research interests are contemporary performance and dance, art theory and philosophy of contemporary art. She is a member of the editorial board of Maska Magazine, Amfiteater and Performance Research. She published Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism, Zero Books, Winchester, London, 2015 and The Life of Art. Transversal lines of Care (in Slowenian 2021, and German 2023).