Annette Jael Lehmann

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Annette Jael Lehmann (* 1965 in Berlin ) is professor for modern and contemporary art, visual culture and theater at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Annette Jael Lehmann studied general and comparative literature , art history , American studies and philosophy in Berlin, Oxford and Berkeley and received her doctorate in 1996 from the Free University of Berlin under Eberhard Lämmert . From 1990 to 1993 she was a project manager at the Center for Technological Cooperation (ZTZ) in Berlin. Between 1995 and 1998, she was visiting professor at the University of California (UCLA), the School of Critical Studies, the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the School of Arts, Letters and Sciences (USC). She then worked in the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 447: "Cultures of the Performative" (1999 to 2005) and completed her habilitation in visual culture at the Free University of Berlin in 2005. In addition, she managed the "Center for Interdisciplinary Art Studies and Aesthetics" until she was appointed professor for Visual Culture and Theater at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin in 2007. Her research and teaching focuses include modern and contemporary theater, modern and contemporary art, visual culture, performance art and aesthetics, as well as application-related projects in the digital humanities. Her occupation ranges from the history of performance art from a global perspective, environmental art, installation and video art, aesthetics and politics of the visible and invisible to models and aesthetics of creative practices and processes of mediation between analog and digital art and cultural practice. Further research topics include areas such as avant-garde arts in the area of ​​tension between archive, knowledge and cultural communication, which are dealt with across disciplines in international research associations. Her academic work in research and teaching is characterized by a strong focus on knowledge transfer and interdisciplinary, application-oriented practical projects, which particularly characterize her collaborations and projects with national and international institutions in the arts and culture. Annette Jael Lehmann lives in Berlin with her family and two children.

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2016–2017 Global Humanities Senior Fellow at Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • 2015 Senior Research and Teaching Stay at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2005 mentee, ProFiL program, mentoring, training, networking, Free University of Berlin, Technical University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Potsdam, Germany, mentor: Prof. Monika Grütters
  • 2004 Visiting Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford , England
  • 2003 laureate (1st place) of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , Germany
  • 2001 Visiting Research Fellow, Getty Research Institute , Los Angeles, USA
  • 1997 Fellowship, Literary Research Center Huntington Library, Pasadena, California, USA

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Black Mountain Research , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2016. ISBN 978-3-7356-0264-0
  • Exposures. Visual Culture, Discourse and Performance in Nineteenth-Century America , Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-86057-165-1
  • Art and New Media. Aesthetic paradigms since the 1960s , UTB / Francke, Tübingen 2008. ISBN 978-3-7720-3367-4
  • ed. with Jutta Eming and Irmgard Maassen: Mediale Performanzen. Historical concepts and perspectives , Rombach printing and publishing house, Freiburg 2002. ISBN 978-3-7930-9344-2
  • In / Visibilities of Difference. Contributions to the gender debate in the arts , Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2001. ISBN 978-3-86057-046-3
  • Under the sign of the Shoah. Aspects of the poetry and language crisis with Rose Ausländer and Nelly Sachs , Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 1999. ISBN 978-3-86057-147-7

Essays

  • Black Mountain and Beyond - Research Practices between Universities and Museums, in: Stedelijk Studies, Spring '16, Between the Discursive and the Immersive, Amsterdam, 2016
  • Environmental Art. Productive Paradoxes and Participatory Practices, in: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Daniela Hahn (eds.), Ökologie und Künste, Munich 2015, 31–50
  • Life and Death in Peep Boxes, in: Jürgen Martschukart, Stefan Wildt (eds.), Violence and Visibility. Historical, Cultural, and Political Perspectives from the 19th Century to the Present, Chicago 2013, 311–329
  • Black Box Inside Out. Perceptual processes in an immersive space, in: Meike Kroenke, Yvonne Spielmann (eds.), Space and Identity in Cultural Change, Bielefeld, 2007, 59–74
  • Mediated Motion. Installation spaces and performative aesthetics using the example of Olafur Eliasson, in: Sybille Krämer (ed.), Performativität und Medialität, Munich 2004, 347–370
  • Between scene and showroom - image staging as places of performative constitution of reality, in: Uwe Wirth (ed.), Performance. Between philosophy of language and cultural studies, Frankfurt a. M. 2002, 347-365

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Short bio at "diejungeakademie.de" (award winner 2001)
  2. Annette Jael Lehmann. In: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de. February 4, 2009, accessed October 23, 2016 .
  3. Annette Jael Lehmann | BIO. In: annette-jael-lehmann.de. Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
  4. Annette Jael Lehmann | RESEARCH INTERESTS. In: annette-jael-lehmann.de. Retrieved October 23, 2016 .
  5. Annette Jael Lehmann | BIO. In: annette-jael-lehmann.de. Retrieved October 23, 2016 .