Doris Posch

Doris is Associate Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University (SE). She is Deputy Head and Senior Scientist at the Inter-University Organization Science & Arts at Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg (AT) and Mozarteum University Salzburg (AT). 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, Co-Director and Co-Manager of the annual International Film Festival Kaleidoskop in Vienna (AT) since 2019 and Co-Founder of the curatorial collective of film cultures CineCollective. 

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, decolonial perspective. 

AREAS OF RESEARCH & FIELDS OF INTEREST:

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

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING (COURSE CONVENER and LECTURER):

Moving Image in Multiplicity: Collective Imagination & Decolonial Aesthetics, Transcultural Studies, Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education, Bachelor and Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), winter term 2022

(Co-)Creating! Artistic and creative processes in socio-cultural contexts, Inter-University Organization Science and Arts, Department of Communication Studies, Bachelor and Master Studies, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg (AT), winter term 2022

Aesthetics of Relation and Decolonial Film Theory, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Bachelor Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2022

Cinema and Human Rights – Theory (Co-Teaching with Djamila Grandits), Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), winter term 2022

Postcolonial Film Theory: Caribbean Cinemas, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2022

Postcolonial Theory, Transcultural Perspectives, Decolonial Thought, Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), summer term 2022

Cultural Studies, Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), summer term 2022

Postcolonial Theory & Decolonizing Perspectives, Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), winter term 2021

Cinema and Human Rights – Theory (Co-Teaching with Djamila Grandits), Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), winter term 2021

Cultural Studies, Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights, Master Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), summer term 2021

Who we are. Transcultural and Relational Cinemas, Department of Cultural Studies, Bachelor Studies, University of Art and Design Linz (AT), summer term 2021

Queer-Feminist Collectives in Arts and Culture, Gender Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2021

Close-Up on African Cinemas: Spaces, Mobilities, Visibility, Bachelor and Master Studies, Department of African Studies, Master and Bachelor Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2021

Postcolonial Perspectives on Caribbean Cinemas and Diasporas, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2020

Decolonization: The Early African Cinema, Bachelor and Master Studies, Department of African Studies, Master and Bachelor Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2020

Afrobubblegum: Feminism – Africa – Film, Gender Studies, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2020

African Diasporas: Visual Archives, Global Aesthetics & Art Practices, Bachelor and Master Studies, Department of African Studies, Master and Bachelor Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2020

Africa* on Screen: Constructions and Narratives in Recent Film, Department of African Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2019

African Cinemas NOW! Current Dynamics of African Filmmaking, Department of African Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2019

Introduction to the History of Film in Africa, Department of African Studies, Master and Bachelor Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2019

The Living Gods of Haiti: Maya Deren’s Ethnographic Filmmaking, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2018

The post- and the decolonial - and how to be applied in practice, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), summer term 2018

Screening Africa Today: African Film Cultures and Diasporas, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Master Studies, University of Vienna (AT), winter term 2017

RECENT LECTURES, SPEAKER SESSIONS & 
ARTISTIC PARTICIPATION (SELECTION):

Invited Speaker and Host 1-Day-Workshop: Interactive, Relational, Meaningful: Dialogues on Representations of the Self, Concept and Workshop Facilitator with Ruby Nyaoro, in cooperation with: University of Innsbruck, University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Afro-Asian Institute Salzburg, AT, 21/06/2024

Invited Inaugural Speaker and Host Exhibition Opening: Vernissage: Ich und die Anderen (Me and the Others), Conversation with Artist and Filmmaker Annja Krautgaser, Bildrecht 1, Vienna, AT, 27/02/2024

Guest Lecture: Film Cultures – Barrier-Free, Free Admission, Open Air: When Artforms and Audiences meet in Public Spaces, Guest Lecture in Cultural Work and Cultural Mediation for Elke Zobl, Contemporary Art and Cultural Production, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg/Mozarteum University Salzburg, AT, online, 24/10/2023 

Paper: Collective Ways of Thinking, Being and Seeing: Imagining Possible Futures in the Arts, 5th International Geomedia Conference, Digital Geographies of Hope, Tampere University, FI, 20-22/09/2023

Invited Speaker: Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night) (Christoph Hochhäusler), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Thea Ehre and Timocin Ziegler, Stadtkino Vienna, AT, 07/07/2023 

Interpreter: Where are we now? Kulturwissenschaftlich arbeiten 1993–2043, Interpreter for Rita Segato, Conference, International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), University of Art and Design Linz, Jugendstilhörsaal of MedUni Vienna, IFK Vienna, AT, 14-15/06/2023

Keynote Lecture: Queer Spaces in Film Cultures – Rafiki, Keynote Speaker at BOKU-KINO: Film Series and Discussion, Open Air Film Screening, Türkenschanzpark, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, AT, 14/06/2023

Invited Speaker, Interpreter: Les cinq diables (The five devils) (Léa Mysius), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Léa Mysius, Stadtkino Vienna, AT, 12/05/2023 

Invited Host: When Spring Came to Bucha (Mila Teshaievea, Marcus Lenz), Austrian Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Mila Teshaieva, ethnocineca, International Documentary Film Festival, Cinema De France, Vienna, AT, 09/05/2023

Invited Host: Koreni (Roots) (Tea Lukač), Austrian Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Tea Lukač, ethnocineca, International Documentary Film Festival, Cinema De France, Vienna, AT, 08/05/2023

Invited Speaker: À bout de souffle (Breathless) – Homage to Jean-Luc Godard, Panel Discussion with Thierry Jobin and Doris Posch, hosted by Cedric Huss, 25th Festival du film francophone, Votiv Kino Vienna, AT, 21/04/2023

Presenter, Host: Masterclass: Is it possible to depict reality in documentary filmmaking? (Lässt sich in einem Dokumentarfilm die Wirklichkeit abbilden?), Invited Speaker: Fridolin Schönwiese, KunstQuartier, Salzburg University, AT, 26/01/2023

Speaker: it works and IT WORKS II (Fridolin Schönwiese), Introductory words and Post-screening conversation with Michael Hagleitner and Fridolin Schönwiese, Salzburg Film Premiere, Filmkulturzentrum Das Kino, Salzburg, AT, 25/01/2023

Introductory Lecture: Urban Scapes and Intersectional Groundings in Lingui (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun), Kaleidoskop, Vienna Premiere, Filmcasino, Vienna, AT, 04/12/2022

Invited Host: THE NEST COLLECTIVE, Artist Talk with Sunny Dolat, Exhibition: LOVING OTHERS, Models of Collaboration, Künstlerhaus Vienna, AT, 03/11/2022

Invited Speaker: Stories from the Sea (Jola Wieczorek), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Nora Czamler, Eva Hausberger, Rubén Rocha, Serafin Spitzer and Jola Wieczorek, Stadtkino Vienna, AT, 20/05/2022

Invited Host: Resources and the Body: Global Webs of Exploitation, Panel Discussion with Olande Byamungu, Saeed Taji Farouky and Daniel Kötter, Redakion der Achte, Vienna, AT, 15/05/2022

Invited Speaker, Interpreter: Un Monde (Playground) (Laura Wandel), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Laura Wandel, Stadtkino Vienna, AT, 29/04/2022

Invited Speaker: Who’s Afraid of Alice Miller? (Daniel Howald), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Daniel Howald and Annina Butterworth, Village Cinema Vienna, AT, 23/04/2022

Invited Speaker, Interpreter: La Traversée (The Crossing) (Florence Miailhe), Austrian Film Premiere, Post-screening conversation with Florence Miailhe, Tricky Women – Tricky Realities, Tricky Women Animation Festival, Metro Kino, Vienna, AT, 12/03/2022

Introductory Lecture: Queer Film Cultures in African Spaces: I am Samuel (Peter Murimi), Human Vision Film Festival, Dornbirn, AT, 05/03/2022

Guest Lecture: Collective Curatorial Practice, Guest Lecture with Marie-Christine Hartig, act responsibly together - Collaborations with an Impact, GreenWebspace, online, 25/01/2022

Invited Host: Talk on Diversity, Speakers: Clive Nwonka, Wendy J.N. Lee and Dela Debulamanzi, B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Online + Frankfurt/Rhine/Main, DE, 16/10/2021

Performance Lecture: Le dit du cinéma africain…, RECALL [REWIND], Fragmente, curated by CineCollective, Le Studio, Vienna, AT, 05/10/2021

Inaugural Presenter and Host Event: Award Ceremony Cinema, Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Urania Kino, Vienna, AT, 20/09/2021

Invited Speaker: The Trouble with Being Born (Sandra Wollner), Post-screening conversation with Sandra Wollner and Ingrid Burkhard, Austrian Film Premiere, Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT, 16/06/2021

Artistic Participation: NOVA. Future thoughts on surviving together, (queer-)feminist futurist LARP – Live Action Role Play, written and run by Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska, Kunsthalle Vienna, part of the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor, curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Oier Etxeberria, Kunsthalle Vienna, AT, 18/12/2020-25/04/2021

Guest Lecture: Aesthetics in African Cinemas, Guest Lecture in Contemporary History for Eric Burton, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck, AT, online, 19/04/2021 

Artistic Participation: PEARLS WITHOUT A STRING (Constanze Ruhm), installation, 2020, 72 min., color, sound, in the context of the exhibition WHEN GESTURE BECOMES EVENT/KO GESTA POSTANE DOGODEK/WENN DIE GESTE ZUM EREIGNIS WIRD, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and Alenka Gregorič, Künstlerhaus Vienna, AT, 08/12/2020-07/04/2021

Invited Introductory Lecture: Édouard Glissant: Poetics of Relations and Worldmaking in Plurality, Exhibition Maja Vukoje, Auf Kante, Belvedere 21, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Vienna, AT, 18/03/2021

Guest Lecture: The Politics of Homosexuality: Queering Narratives & Filmmaking Aesthetics, Guest Lecture in Gender in African Political History for Anaïs Angelo, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, AT, online, 19/01/2021 

Invited Speaker: Moving Within and Beyond: Imagining Spaces, Narrating the Cultural, Speaker and Host 1-Day Workshop with Katharina Müller, Summer School, Encounter and Perspective – Intercultural Film Education, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, AT, 25/08/2020 

Guest Lecture: Performative Interventions, Intersectional Perspectives: Film Curating in Public Space, Guest Lecture at the Department of American Studies for Christian Quendler, University of Innsbruck, AT, online, 28/05/2020 

Invited Inaugural Lecture: Bab al-hadid/Cairo Main Station and Cairo as seen by Chahine, Opening of the Retrospective Youssef Chahine – Icon of Egyptian Cinema, Film Archive Austria, Vienna, AT 13/02/2020

Invited Introductory Film Lecture: Détruire, dit-elle/Destroy, she says (Marguerite Duras), Retrospective Women Filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, Film Archive Austria, Vienna, AT, 09/02/2020 

Invited Introductory Film Lecture: Je Tu Il Elle/I, You, He, She (Chantal Akerman), Retrospective Women Filmmakers in the 1960s and 1970s in Europe, Film Archive Austria, Vienna, AT, 09/02/2020 

Guest Lecture: Film Cultures and Curatorial Practice in Public Space, Guest Lecture with Marie-Christine Hartig at the Department of Cultural Management & Gender Studies for Elisabeth Mayerhofer, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, AT, 31/01/2020

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

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, Programmbereich Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kulturproduktion, Interuniversitäre Einrichtung Wissenschaft und Kunst, 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, Programmbereich Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kulturproduktion, Interuniversitäre Einrichtung Wissenschaft und Kunst, 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.