Sylvia Sadzinski
Curator and Lecturer
Main focus: Queer Curating & Porn Studies
Languages: German, English, Polish, Spanish
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
Topics: queer film studies, curatorial theory, art & society, film studies, queer theory, art in public space, queer feminism, performance art, art & activism, porn studies, art and critical thinking
Services: Talk, Moderation, Workshop management, Consulting, Coaching, Interview
Willing to travel for an event.
Willing to talk for nonprofit.
Sylvia Sadzinski curates, teaches and researches primarily on (queer) feminist topics and questions regarding visual resistance practices, body politics, sexualities and affects and on methods of queer and feminist curating.
Since October 2019, she has been working as programme director and artistic co-director of the feminist art and event venue alpha nova & galerie futura in Berlin. She studied European Cultural History in Bremen and Valencia (Spain) and Literature and Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). She was a research assistant at the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and has been teaching in the field of visual cultural studies, porn studies and gender studies at various universities (including the University of Vienna, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt) since 2015.
From 2017 to 2019 she was curator of the municipal Galerie im Turm in Berlin and curatorial fellow at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien . Since 2012, she has realized various collaborative cultural projects, among others with the nomadic project space and curatorial group Neue Berliner Räume .
Since 2016, she has been running the international nomadic film and discourse series Plonker, Porn, Protest together with Sarah Held, which is dedicated to the critical potential of queer-feminist pornography.
Examples of previous talks / appearances:
11/2021
Im Rahmen des Stadtjubiläums der Stadt Marburg und im Auftrag des Fachdienst Kultur wurde in einem Workshop gemeinsam anhand von Beispielen erörtert, was das Konzept von Queering für die Künste und das Ausstellen bedeutet. Welche Rolle spielt die Identität der Künstler_innen? Welche Kennzeichen könnten es sein, die ein Kunstwerk queer machen? Wie werden gesellschafliche Themen, Blicke und Zuschreibungen auf queere Biografien, politische Verhältnisse und Körper in Queerer Kunst verhandelt?
11/2019
Renegotiating Minoritarian In_Visibilities
Justus Liebig Universität Gießen
08/2017
Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures, and Politics 2017
Singidunum University Belgrade
03/2017
Vortragsreihe Kunst - Forschung - Geschlecht
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
12/2016
4. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz/Kunstuniversität Linz
09/2016
Ästhetik und Geschlecht – Jahrestagung des Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung
Universität Hildesheim
07/2016
The Politics of Performance and Play. Feminist Matters
Leiden University
05/2016
21st Feminist Praxes, Ontologies and Materialities Conference
Central European University Budapest
02/2016
23rd Lavender Languages Conference
American University Washington D.C
11/2015
European Bodies in the Making Conference and Workshop
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
11/2013
Eingeladener Vortrag im Rahmen der Reihe made@viadrina: gender lectures
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)