MMag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ Doris Posch

Doris is Senior Scientist at the Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges and Deputy Head of the Focus Area Society & Sustainability | Contemporary Art and Cultural Production at Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg. Since 2017, Doris is a lecturer at the University of Vienna (AT), the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), the University of Art and Design Linz (AT), Paris Lodron University Salzburg (AT) and Mozarteum University Salzburg (AT). Doris is Co-Founder of the curatorial collective of film cultures CineCollective and from 2019-2023 Co-Founder, Co-Director and Co-Manager of the annual International Film Festival Kaleidoskop in Vienna (AT).

Doris holds a PhD in Theatre, Film and Media Studies from the University of Vienna (AT). She studied at the Université de Montréal (CA) and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE) and graduated both in Theatre, Film and Media Studies and in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Vienna (AT). She also studied Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT). From 2015-2019, Doris was a Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU) (US), a Visiting Researcher at Concordia University in Montreal (CA), a fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Marietta Blau fellow.

In her doctoral thesis entitled Cinema of Relations: Emerging Film Cultures of Haiti (2021), Doris focused on the aesthetics, narratives, imaginaries, non-linear history, and trans-generational knowledge transmission in current visual cultures of Haiti, its diasporas, and the Caribbean at large. In her current research, Doris focuses on collective practices and relational agencies in film and visual cultures, and in the arts from a transcultural, intersectional and decolonial perspective. Doris explores current collective formations considering the reasons of an increasing constitution of and practice within collective networks and artistic alliances, the resulting emergence of collective work processes and its underlying potential of agency in multivocality in the domains of aesthetics, narration, audiovisual and performing art production, multiplicity of cultural knowledge formation, transfer, and reception, including audience building.

Teaching and research interests

Global Film and Media Theory and Aesthetics
Curatorial Studies and Collective Curating
Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
Film Festival Research
Critical Film Historiography
Audiovisual Archives
Caribbean Cultural Theory
Decolonial Perspectives
Transdisciplinary Research
Intersectional Research
Gender Studies
Mobility Studies
Transcultural Studies
Translation Practice

Websites

Co-Director (2019-2023): Kaleidoskop – Film und Freiluft
Curator (since 2019): CineCollective – Filmkulturen & kuratorische Praxis

Publications (selection)

Posch, D. (2023): Prozessorientiert # Transdisziplinär # Ergebnisoffen. Reflexionen zu einem Labor zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft, in: Egger, B., Posch, D., Prlić, S. (eds.) (2023) WANDLE! Reflexion des transdisziplinären und künstlerisch-forschenden Labors Wandeln, p/art/icipate – Kultur aktiv gestalten :: p/art/icipate – Producing culture actively, Issue 14, Salzburg, Focus Area Contemporary Arts & Cultural Production, Paris Lodron University/Mozarteum University Salzburg. Online access: https://www.p-art-icipate.net/prozessortiert-transdisz-ergebnisoffen/.

Egger, B., Posch, D., Prlić, S. (eds.) (2023) WANDLE! Reflexion des transdisziplinären und künstlerisch-forschenden Labors Wandeln, p/art/icipate – Kultur aktiv gestalten :: p/art/icipate – Producing culture actively, Issue 14, Salzburg, Focus Area Contemporary Arts & Cultural Production, Paris Lodron University/Mozarteum University Salzburg. Online access: https://www.p-art-icipate.net/issue/14-wandle/.

Egger, B., Posch, D., Prlić, S. (2023) Intro/Outro – weiterwandeln, weiter wandeln, in: Egger, B., Posch, D., Prlić, S. (eds.) (2023) WANDLE! Reflexion des transdisziplinären und künstlerisch-forschenden Labors Wandeln, p/art/icipate – Kultur aktiv gestalten :: p/art/icipate – Producing culture actively, Issue 14, Salzburg, Focus Area Contemporary Arts & Cultural Production, Inter-University Organization Science and Arts, Paris Lodron University/Mozarteum University Salzburg. Online access: https://www.p-art-icipate.net/intro/.

Zobl, E., Anzengruber, K., Kobel, S., Pachner, T., Reiterer, S., Posch, D. (2023) Zukunft mit Zukunft, Klima, Kunst, Kultur – Experimentierräume und Vermittlungsformate, Praxis-Handbuch Räume kultureller Demokratie (2019-2023), Focus Area Contemporary Arts & Cultural Production, Inter-University Organization Science and Arts, Paris Lodron University/Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Posch, D. (Translation): Hurbon, Laënnec (2023) The figure of the zombie and the memory of slavery across the Atlantic, in: Atlantic Studies, 20:3, 400-408, DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2022.2146958.

Posch, D. (2022) TWO PALERMO (Antoinette Zwirchmayr), in: Film Catalogue, New York Anthology Film Archive, New York, 06/2022.

Posch, D. (2022) ECHODROM – Nachts im Bach (Gudrun Krebitz), in: Festival Catalogue, Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film, Czernin, Graz, 04/2022.

Posch, D. (2021) “I’m hungry for connection” – Artistic Collectivity and Ceremonial Encounters in African-Caribbean Relations, in: Englert, B., Harisch, I., Thomsen, S. (eds.) Human, Intellectual and Cultural Mobilities between Africa and the Caribbean – From the Late 19th Century to the Present, Routledge, 83-113.

Posch, D. (2021) “Diesen Film zu drehen war eine sehr emotionale Sache.” Regisseur Lukas Ladner im Interview mit Doris Posch, in: TAKE #13, Magazine for Film Professionals, Bozen, IDM Südtirol Film Fund & Commission, 42-47.

Posch, D. (2021) “Diese Verlorenheit junger Menschen berührt mich.” Regisseurin Evi Romen im Interview mit Doris Posch, in: TAKE #12, Magazine for Film Professionals, Bozen, IDM Südtirol Film Fund & Commission, 42-47.

Posch, D. (2019) Exiled Gaze – Der exilierte Blick, Filmisch-künstlerische Positionen zu aktuellen Exilgeschichten / Exiled Gaze – La Mirada Exilada, Posiciones fílmicas y artísticas respecto a historias de exilio actuales, in: Molden, B. (ed.) Gekreuzte Geschichten – Erfahrungen des Exils in Mexiko und Österreich / Historias Cruzadas – Experiencias del Exilio en México y Austria, Vienna, bahoe, 89-123.

Posch, D. (2019) Visa-vis, in: Molden, B. (ed.) Gekreuzte Geschichten – Erfahrungen des Exils in Mexiko und Österreich / Historias Cruzadas – Experiencias del Exilio en México y Austria, Vienna, bahoe, 131-135.

Posch, D. (2019) “Ich bin ein großer Fan des Melodramas,” Doris Posch im Gespräch mit Milo Rau, in: Kolik.Film. Sonderheft 31, April 2019. Print. Online access: http://www.kolikfilm.at/sonderheft.php?edition=201931&content=texte&text=1.

Posch, D. (2018) Emerging film cultures: Spotlight on post-disaster Haiti, International Journal of Cultural Studies, 21:1, Special Issue: (Re)locating Media Production, Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers and Helen Morgan-Parmett, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 27-41, DOI: 10.1177/1367877917704490.

Posch, D. (2018) Mille Soleils und Touki Bouki: Filmische Verortungen im Dazwischen, in: Heinrich, C., Kahl, T. (eds.) (2018) Litterae – magistra vitae. Heinrich Stiehler zum 70. Geburtstag. Forum: Rumänien, Berlin, Frank & Timme, 397-412.

Posch, D. (2018) Guérilla Kino & Eat My Body: Filmkulturen in Haitis Diasporas, in: Huber, A., Glaser, T., Silberbauer, A. (eds.) (2018) Performing Translation, Praktiken des Wissens in/um Musik – Theater – Film, Vienna, Hollitzer, 101-114.

Posch, D. (2018) Oral Storytelling, the Gaze and the Everyday: Documentary Filmmaking in Haiti, in: Fendler, U., Vatter, C. (eds.), Cultural Dynamics in African Cinemas of the 21st Century. Agents, Formats, Genres / Dynamiques culturelles dans les cinémas africains du XXIe siècle. Acteurs, formats, réseaux, Saarbrücken, universaar, Saarland University Press, 113-128.

Posch, D. (2018) “Etikette Kokette” (Martina Mina, Photo Exhibition 2018), in: Open Studio Day – Vienna Art Week, Vienna, 11/2018.

Posch, D., Schiefer, K. (2018) 8x8x8 Einblicke in einen Parcours durchs Jetzt, in: Rückblicke/Ausblicke: 8x8x8 – A Formula for Diversity in Austrian Film?  – dotdotdot, Vienna, 02/2018.

Posch, D. (2017) Speaking Nearby – Postkolonialer Film in Theorie und Praxis, Porträt zur Filmemacherin, Theoretikerin, Schriftstellerin und Komponistin Trinh T. Minh-ha, in: mdw Magazin, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, 2017/03, 48-51. Online access: https://www.mdw.ac.at/magazin/index.php/2017/03/01/speaking-nearby-postkolonialer-film-in-theorie-und-praxis/.

Posch, D. (2017) Cultural Heritage and Popular Cultures: The Revolution Won’t Be Televised And Its Global Reception, Critical Interventions, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture, 11:3, Editors: Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap, London, Routledge, 301-317, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2017.1401384.

Posch, D. (2017) Archive Everything, Mapping the Everyday, Gabriella Giannachi. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2016, 240pp. rezens.tfm, Vienna, 2017/2.

Posch, D. (2017) “rote Erde weisser Schnee” (Christine Moderbacher, Austria 2017, 71 min), in: Online Catalogue, sixpackfilm, Vienna, 12/2017.

Posch, D. (2017) “Queers under Water – Dissolving Textures” (Martina Mina, Photo Exhibition 2017), in: PHOTO::VIENNA | WERKSCHAU 2017 – EDITION #4, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, 10/2017.

Posch, D. (2015) The Jollywood Manifesto: Trans-local Film Cultures in Haiti’s Emerging Cinemas, in: Media: Theory and Practice, Култура /Culture/Kultura, 10/12, Skopje, 157-171.

Posch, D. (2014) The Postcolonial in science fiction film theory and analysis: Contact zones and its hybrid translations in Aningaaq and Gravity, in: Hasitschka, W. (ed.): Performing Translation. Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst, Pädagogik und Wissenschaft, Vienna, Löcker, 252-271.

Posch, D. (2014) Postkoloniales Filmschaffen, Gegenwärtige Filmregisseurinnen des Afrikanischen Kinos der Subsahara, Saarbrücken, AV, 208p.

Posch, D. (2014) Transkulturalität oder: ‘Kein Mensch ist nur eine Sprache,’ in: qu[art], Magazine of the Austrian Students’ Union, 4/2, Vienna: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 18-19.

Posch, D. (2013) Ansehnlich und zum Anfassen: Ein Streifzug durch das Sinnliche des Kinos – The Rhythm of Claire Denis, in: Frauensolidarität, Love, Sex & Reality, 126/4, 26-27.