Academic, Performance Practitioner, Pedagogue
About
Kerstin completed her PaR (practice-as research) PhD in 2008, entitled 'On hair, fishtails and voices - resisting femininity in contemporary performance practice' and was awarded by Lancaster University. She worked at Anglia Ruskin University till January 2012. In her position as senior lecturer at ARU, co-organised the Research Unit Representation, Identity and Body (RIB), within the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences. She is also a member of the TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) working group 'Performance and the Body'.
As active performance practitioner Kerstin is a founder member of Factory Floor, a network of women solo performers and writers, as well as a member of MaMSIE (mapping maternal subjectivity, identity and ethics), an international, interdisciplinary network and research project.
Her most recent performance works include: Middles, Ends, Beginnings (2012) - an autobiographical performance; Date, Mate, Fake, Bake - a one-on-one 'dating' performance (2009/10); Mapping Maternity - a 12-hour durational performance (2008/09/10); Bloody Rosa - Part 1 - a 5-hour durational, site-specific solo performance (2008)
She has presented work on international festivals/conferences in Cyprus, USA, Germany, Ireland and Slovakia.
Publications include:
Bueschges, K. (2009) Dialectical Images of Femininity, in: Platform – postgraduate e-journal of Theatre & Performing Arts, Vol. 4 (1) Staging Gender(s), online: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Drama/platform/index.html
Bueschges, K. (2009) Inside/Insight Me: a performative provocation in response to Anna Furse’s Glass Body: reflections on becoming transparent, in: Tyler, I. & Gatrell, C. Feminist Review Issue 93: Birth, London: Palgrave Macmillan
Bueschges, K. (2009) A performative response to Magdalena Makeup, in: Simic, L. Lena Simic – Maternal Matters and Other Sisters (Artist Catalogue), Liverpool: The Institute for the Arts and Practice of Dissent at Home
