The following centers and collaborative research projects are engaged in this focus area:

• FOR 229: Cinepoetics – Center for Advanced Film Studies (since 2016)
• ERC Project: Early Modern European Drama and the Cultural Net (DramaNet) (2011-2016)
• International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures (since 2008)
• ERC Project: The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (2012-2017)
• GRK 2638: Normativität, Kritik, Wandel (since 2021)
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Junior Research Group: Bilder der Krise - Affektrhetoriken des Audiovisuellen (since 2017)
• SFB 1512: Intervenierende Künste (since 2022)

Activities

2024

• July 17-18, 2024, Symposium: Miriam Akkermann (FU Berlin): (Virtual) Presence!? Musical performances in hybrid spaces, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
• July 9, 2024, Talk: Akustische Störungen, SBF 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• July 5, 2024, Workshop:  Interventionsraum: Körper in Bewegung, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• July 1, 2024, Talk: Silke Felber (FU Berlin/Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), Semplicemente complicato? Thomas Bernhard auf italienischen Bühnen, Italienzentrum
• June 27, 2024, Talk/Performance: Helena Uambembe, Interventionsraum: "Translate", Performance Lecture von Helena Uambembe, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• June 19, 2024, Interventionsraum: Alanna Lynch, Silke Felber, Intervening (with) Smells II, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• June 5-7, 2024, Workshop: Somatische Landschaft, SFB 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• June 4, 2024, Opening: Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
• May 7-8, 2024, Workshop: Aspects of the Street, Theater, and Performance, SFB 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• May 2, 2024, Workshop: "Cine Latinoamericano", GRK 2245: Temporalities of Future in Latin America
• April 16-July 16, 2024, Lecture Series, Intervenierende Künste. Politische und ästhetische Potentiale, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• February 6–8, 2024, Workshop Part 2: Butterflies That Drink Turtle Tears* – Some Attempts to Create Syntropically, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• January 16–18 2024, Workshop: Butterflies That Drink Turtle Tears* – Some Attempts to Create Syntropically, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste
• January 15, 2024, Talk: Conversa com | Gespräch mit Lia Rodrigues, SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste

2023

• November 10, 2023, Workshop and Performance: Transforming a Mediaeval Saga Into a Contemporary Ballad and Dance Performance, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities Research Area 2: “Travelling Matters”
• October 10–11, Workshop: Klanglandschaft, Sonderforschungsbereich 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• Maz 2-5, 2023, Workshop: Failure as Practice, Sonderforschungsbereich 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• January 21, 2023, Lecture Series: Crushing the Canon*? Interventionen im Staatsballett, Sonderforschungsbereich 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• January 19, 2023, Lecture Series: Film und die Kritik der anthropologischen Differenz (Prof. Dr. Sabine Nessel), GRK 2638 "Normativität, Kritik, Wandel"

2022

• December 7, 2022, Laboratory: Marina Naprushkina und die Neue Nachbarschaft, A02 "Geteilte Protokolle: Versammlung in der zeitgenössischen Kunst"
• December 1, 2022, Discussion: "If I only were that warrior" (USA/I/ETH,2015), Italienzentrum
• November 19, 2022, Laboratory: Dis|As|Sociation, A04 "Musikalische Polyphonie als experimentelle Sozialität"
• November 18, 2022, Workshopreihe: Asja Lacis' Manifest „Neue Richtungen in der Theaterkunst“ (1921), Sonderforschungsbereich 1512 "Intervenierende Künste"
• February 21, 2022, "Mit Wundern rechnen" im Deutschen Theater – Von der Gier zur Gegenseitigkeit? Zur aktuellen Diskussion über ethnologische Objekte, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• January 20, 2022, Lecture series: "Mit Wundern rechnen" im Deutschen Theater – (Un)sichtbare Religion: Politiken religiöser Vielfalt im urbanen Raum, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"

2021

• December 17, 2021, Workshop: Challenging the Canon of the Arts and their Disciplines. A Workshop on Transdisciplinary Methodologies, GRK 2638: Normativität, Kritik, Wandel
• November 15, 2021, Talk series: "Mit Wundern rechnen" im Deutschen Theater, Sonderforschungsbereich 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten"
• July 6–7, 2021, Workshop: Earth, World, and Cinematic Thinking / Architectures of Imaginations, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• July 1, 2021, Workshop: Staging Viral Theatres, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities
• June 3–4, 2021, Workshop: Responsive Bodies. Ethics of Temporal Community in Contemporary Dance, Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities 
• January 20, 2021, Workshop: Tracing Relationsships: Audiovisual Essays, Aesthetic Experience and Poetic Practice, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• December 4, 2020–June 21, 2021, Event series: Temporal Communities and Digitality – Theatre Doing During the Pandemic, organised by Doris Kolesch of Research Area 2 "Travelling Matters", Exzellenzcluster Temporal Communities

2020

• December 15–16, 2020, Workshop: Digital Approaches to Film Aesthetics: Computer-based Analysis and Expressive Movement, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• November 18, 2020, Workshop: Mapping the Sensible: Distributions, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• May 7, 14 and 28, 2020, 10:00 a.m., open lecture: Ein Streifzug durch die Geschcihte der Schauspielkunst 
• February 9, 2020, Workshop: Into the Wild? Film Studies and Transitions into "Openness", Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• January 7–8, 2020, Workshop: Bildlichkeit, Ästhetik, Agency: Ansätze einer Poiesis des Videospielens, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder

2019

• November 27, 2019, Lecture: Herumtreiben: Zeit, Ort und das Crip-Queere in Else Lasker-Schülers Schauspiel 'Die Wupper', Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien
• October 31–November 2, 2019, Workshop: Beyond Spectatorship?, Cinepoetics – Poetologien audiovisueller Bilder
• Winter term 2018/19, Lecture series: Zwischen Liebe und Revolte – Studentische Lebensformen im Film der Nachkriegszeit, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin
• February 15, 2019, Workshop: 100 Years of Korean Cinema – A North-South Korean Encounter, Institut für Koreastudien der Freien Universität Berlin zusammen mit Korean Film Council
• February 12, 2019, Lecture: "PEGIDA als kollektive Performanz. Die Dresdener Demonstrationen im Lichte einer theaterwissenschaftlichen Aufführungsanalyse", CRC 1171 "Affective Societies: Dynamics of social coexistence in mobile worlds"

2018

• November 30–December 1, 2018, Symposium: Re-Constructing Performance Art: Processes and Practices of Historicisation, Documentation, and Representation (1960s-1970s), Research project "Between Evidence and Representation: History of Performance Art Documentation from 1970 to 1977"
• June 21–24, 2018, Closing Conference: "Dynamics of Interweaving Performance Cultures", International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures"

2017

• May 13, 2017, Workshop: In Flux – Browsing the Collections. Practice-Based Research between Universities and Museums II, Freie Universität Berlin, metaLAB at Harvard, Harvard University, Boston

2016

• December 8, 2016, Discussion: Hooked on Translation, Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung und Theater e.V.
• December 7, 2016, Performance: EAT ME UP! Performance as Cultural Cannibalism - Improvisational Space, International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures"
• October 21–22, 2016, Conference: Profitable Aesthetics. Performative Strartegies of Involvement, Third Annual Conference of the ERC-Project "The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre"