Presented by the Goethe-Institut
Vienna-based German artist and filmmaker Katrina Daschner is in Toronto working on a new film and exhibition. Last year, she was honoured with her most comprehensive exhibition to date called "BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders” at Kunsthalle Vienna, showing her works from 1990 to the present. On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue accompanying the retrospective, she will spend an evening at the Goethe-Institut Toronto presenting her queer, gender-fluid and feminist artistic practice across film, art and performance, from Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen to BC’s Antimatter Festival.
Daschner works with a variety of closely related media, including sculpture, textiles, music, performance, community work and, most importantly, film, with collaborations at the heart of her artistic practice. At the Goethe, Daschner will show excerpts of the decade-spanning short film series "Hiding in the Lights,“ talk about how her films take shape and how they are presented in art spaces and discuss questions of queer solidarity and desire.
Katrina Daschner is a German-born artist and filmmaker living in Vienna. In her projects, she primarily investigates sexuality, power structures, and queer-feminist (body) politics, as well as the transfer of theatrical acts and performances into the context of exhibitions and films. She presents her projects in exhibitions, at film festivals, and in theatres.
She studied sculpture and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has founded and hosted performance spaces such as Salon Lady Chutney and CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL. Between 2003 and 2008, she was part of the band SV DAMENKRAFT. Daschner has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a theory curator at Tanzquartier Vienna (TQW), a centre for contemporary choreography and performance. Her work has won prizes like the Otto-Mauer-Preis, the Diagonale Film Prize for Innovative Film, the Outstanding Artist Award for Experimental Film, and many more.
Katrina Daschner will be in conversation with
Lauren Howes, Managing Director of DOC Institute Ontario, former Executive Director of Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival and of Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Lauren Howes was the Goethe-Institut Toronto’s guest curator at the Arsenal Berlin Living Archive.
Thank you to the Austrian Cultural Forum for the co-promotion.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on Global Feminisms and German film
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