Dr. Annika Haas
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Dr. phil. Annika Haas Post-Doctorate StaffUniversitätsplatz 1, 31141 HildesheimKulturcampus Domäne Marienburg, Haus 3 (KC.Hs3.0.01)+49 5121 883-21138
About
Annika Haas is a media theorist and a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice" (since December 2023). She studied Media Studies in Potsdam and Istanbul as well as Art and Media at the Berlin University of the Arts and the California Institute of the Arts. In 2022, she obtained her PhD with the thesis Avant-Theorie. Hélène Cixous' écriture du corps at the Berlin University of the Arts. Numerous collaborative projects and experimental teaching formats characterise her way of doing theory at the intersection of media cultural studies and art.
From 2020 to 2023, Annika Haas was a research associate at the Institute for History and Theory of Design at the Berlin University of the Arts. Previously, she was a research associate in the DFG Research Training Group "The Knowledge of the Arts" (2017-2020), an associate researcher in the doctoral program "Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices" at the Collegium Helveticum Zurich (2018-2022), and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire d'études de genre et de sexualité at the Université Paris 8 (2020/21).
Beyond Repair: Artistic Practices and Critique in Times of Crisis
Situated at the intersection of media theory and affect theory, this research project examines contemporary artistic practices and critiques in response to extended periods of crisis. Given the irreparably broken project of (colonial) modernity (Mignolo 2007), repair, reparation and cultural repair techniques are common, albeit ambivalent and limited, responses in times of crisis. This research project explores artistic practices that seek to imagine habitable worlds 'beyond repair' (Haghighian 2019) in the face of overlapping geopolitical conflicts, ideological polarisation, ongoing colonial violence and precarity (CURE 2025, Attia & BAK 2021, Berlant 2022, Stuelke 2021). The focus is on scenes of crisis in the context of techno-capitalism. What alternatives to repair and techno-solutionism do these practices bring to attention?
Techno-solutionist ‘repairs’ often neglect the irreparable damage that becomes apparent in scenes of crisis, and which are currently studied in the fields of media theory and affect theory: Widening discursive divides (Abend/Richterich 2019, Zuboff 2022), techno-capitalism that fuels “self-devouring growth” (Livingston 2019), and the expansion of exploitative technical infrastructures that perpetuate historical forms of violence such as “electronic colonialism” (Rezaire 2018), “recursive colonialism” (Parisi & Dixon-Román 2020), and “techno-precarity” (Adair et al. 2020). — Do artistic practices constitute their own form of critique in this research context? The artistic practices at the centre of this project depart from the recognition of irreparability. They engage with various scenes of crisis and their relationship to the material, epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of dominant, Western notions of technology. — (How) do artistic practices and forms of critique change in times of crisis? What role do technologies play in this context?
Together with three artists from different geopolitical contexts, these questions will be discussed in collaboratively developed settings that are informed by field research on methods of polyvocal discourse formation in the arts, specifically methods of group critique from the context of higher art education in Southern California since the 1970s.
Selected Publications
Please find a full list of publications and projects under the following link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1710-467X
Monographs
2024: Feeling Bad AFK, publication on the occasion of the exhibition Ungovernable Ingredients, silent green Kulturquartier Berlin, 18.-20.12.2024.
2023: Avant-Theorie. Hélène Cixous’ ‹écriture du corps›. Dissertation, Universität der Künste Berlin, Fakultät Gestaltung
https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-2161
Edited Volumes in English
2021: How to Relate: Wissen, Künste, Praktiken / Knowledge, Arts, Practices, ed. with Maximilian Haas, Hanna Magauer, Dennis Pohl, Bielefeld: transcript.
open access online
2020: Théo rit: A Mimetic Approach to Writing Difference(s) with Hélène Cixous, in: Change Through Repetition. Mimesis as a Transformative Principle Between Art and Politics, hg. v. Babylonia Constandinides, Simon Gröger, Elisa Leroy, Doris Rebhan, Berlin: Neofelis, 111–126.
reading sample
2018: Windtunnel Bulletin no. 7, ed. with Sarine Waltenspül, Zürich: Forschungsschwerpunkt Transdisziplinarität, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
open access online
Papers and Essays in English
2024: "Hélène Cixous's Textual Bodies in the Archive and Beyond: ‚I note at top speed what presents itself all the time.‘", in: Vanessa Gravenor, Hanne Loreck (Hrsg.), Archives of the Body, Hamburg: HfBK 2024,
open access online
2022: "Self-Hyphen-Publishing" in: Lerchenfeld Nr. 63, Oct. 2022
2022: "Not a Spectacle. Navigating the Broken Arena. Annika Haas on Nikita Gale at 52 Walker", New York in: Texte zur Kunst online, Jun. 3rd, 2022
2021: with Emily Apter: "Translation: A Relational Practice" in: How to Relate: Wissen, Künste, Praktiken / Knowledge, Arts, Practices, Schriftenreihe „Wissen der Künste“, hg. mit Maximilian Haas, Hanna Magauer, Dennis Pohl, Bielefeld: transcript, 144–159.
open access online
Lectures, Conferences, Workshops
| 9.-11.10.2025 | Beyond Repair: Proceeding in Brokenness, The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities, University of Augsburg |
| 10.-12.10.2024 | „My Body, My Data, My Choice? Data Bodies in the Uncanny Archive“, Conference of the Society for the Study of Affect, Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (USA) |
| 25.-28.09.2024 | Workshop-Chair bei Konferenz „Glitch Assembly“, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, Universität Mainz, together with Lisa Andergassen, Lisa Rein, Martin Beck, Julia Preisker, Irina Raskin. Download Workshop-Zine |
| 25.-26.04.2024 | „The Alphabet of Data Body-Feelings“, Tagung Archive des Körpers, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg |
| 17.06.2023 | „Liquifying Language“, Workshop, Matter of Flux Festival, Art Laboratory Berlin Download Workshop-Zine |
| 25.05.2023 | „Durch den Körper. Hélène Cixous’ Philosophie und Schreiben“, Hessische Theaterakademie Ringvorlesung 2023, with Fanti Baum, Frankfurt/M. |
| 25.04.2023 | „Auto-Archives“, lecture at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, as part of Dissenting Knowledges, Oxford X UdK Berlin Creative Collaborations |
| 22.-23.02.2022 | „Letters of Joys. Reading, Writing and Corresponding with Hélène Cixous“, Lecture & Workshop am Trinity College, Dublin University. At the invitation of the Metaphysical Society |
| 17.-18.11.2021 | Medienhaus Lectures: „Performance. Peformance? Performance!“, together with Henrike Uthe, Universität der Künste Berlin |
| Juli 2021 | „Excavating the Present.“, together with Christopher Weickenmeier. Workshopreihe in der Klosterruine Berlin |
| 28.05.2021 | „Hyperrêve. Hélène Cixous lesen.“, together with Esther von der Osten. lecture workshop as part of Der Alltag der Dekonstruktion at the Universität Zürich, organized by Philippe P. Haensler, Stefanie Heine, Philipp Hubmann und Thomas Traupmann |
| 05.-07.07.2018 | „How to Relate: Aneignen – Vermitteln – Figurieren.“ Jahrestagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Das Wissen der Künste“. together with Maximilian Haas, Hanna Magauer, Dennis Pohl; Universität der Künste Berlin |
Spokesperson
Prof. Dr. Jens Roselt
Coordination
Dr. Sonja Dinter
Postal address
Universität Hildesheim
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2477 „Ästhetische Praxis“
Universitätsplatz 1
31141 Hildesheim
Location
Kulturcampus Domäne Marienburg
Domänenstraße, Haus 3
31141 Hildesheim