Viktoria Tkaczyk

Dilthey Fellowship Research Group Leader

Dr., Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung

Residence: September 1, 2011–August 31, 2016

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Viktoria Tkaczyk is Assistant Professor of Arts and New Media at the University of Amsterdam, and a Dilthey Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (Volkswagen Foundation). Her research and teaching interests are dedicated to theatre and performance art situated within broadly defined cultural, media and science-historical contexts. The current project group on "The making of acoustics in 16th to 19th Europe" is focused on the reciprocal effects of the ongoing establishment and differentiation of acoustics as a scientific discipline on the one hand, and acoustic knowledge production through religious, cultural and artistic practices on the other.

Viktoria Tkaczyk was born in 1976. She completed her study of theatre studies, modern German literature and sociology in Munich, Madrid and Berlin. Her dissertation, “Heavenly Folds. On the Theatricality of Flying in the Early Modern Period” was written in the frame of the graduate seminar "Body Performances" (Freie Universität Berlin), it was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize in 2008 and the Book Award of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis in 2012. From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a research fellow on the project "Theatrum Scientarium. Performativity of Knowledge as Agent of Cultural Change", and she taught at the Institute for Theatre Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2011, she carried out her research as a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the Atelier de Recherche sur l’Intermédialité et les Arts du Spectacle (CNRS) in Paris.

Selected publications

Tkaczyk, Viktoria. "Performativität und Wissen(schaft)sgeschichte." In: Theorien des Performativen: Sprache – Wissen – Praxis. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme, eds.: Klaus W. Hempfer. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011.

Tkaczyk, Viktoria. "Cumulus ex Machina. Wolkeninszenierungen in Theater und Wissenschaft." In: Spektakuläre Experimente. Praktiken der Evidenzproduktion im 17. Jahrhundert, eds.: Helmar Schramm, Ludger Schwarte, Jan Lazardzig. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.

Tkaczyk, Viktoria. "Von fliegenden Bildern und Gedanken." In: Imagination und Repräsentation. Zwei Bildsphären der Frühen Neuzeit, eds.: Horst Bredekamp, Christiane Kruse, Pablo Schneider. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2010.

Tkaczyk, Viktoria. "La parole et l’apprentissage par Coeur. " Théâtre/Public 201 (2011)

Tkaczyk, Viktoria. "Die ‚Vor-Stellung’ hat nicht stattgefunden. Zur Kulisse als Kulturtechnik im 17. Jahrhunder." In: Welt-Bild-Theater. 2 Vol. Vol. 1: Poetiken des Wissens und der Bilder, eds.: Kati Röttger. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2010.

Viktoria Tkaczyk

Dilthey Fellowship Research Group Leader

Dr., Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Funded by the Volkswagenstiftung

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