In my PhD project I diffractively connect Karen Barad’s agential realism and Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetic theory through a case study in cymatics (the visualization of wave effects), asking what aesthetics can contribute to discourses on posthumanism, ecology, and relationality. In doing so, I study the performance of boundaries between human, nature and technology. Particularly, I am researching how these presumably clear differentiations come about and are troubled both in scientific and aesthetic practices, and how these practices engage with any indeterminacy of these boundaries. Ultimately, I am interested how engaging with such indeterminacy allows to address the relationality of the world in a way that isn’t solely geared towards human benefit, but towards sustainable modes of living within a more-than-human world. 

On a theoretical level, diffractively connecting Barad and Adorno, I think aesthetics as a critical, performative and material-discursive practice of engaging with a range of phenomena, not limited to any conventional understanding of art. In turn, I argue that such a practice of aesthetics allows to better understand the performative making of boundaries, theorized by agential realism, particularly their latent indeterminacy, which is crucial to understand relationality.

In addition to my research I work as a freelance production manager and dramaturge. In recent projects I collaborated among others with the performance collective neco_nart, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen and Ensemble Modern.

I hold a master’s degree in Dramaturgy from Goethe University Frankfurt and a bachelor’s degree in European Studies from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.