Personal profile
Overview
Since completing my PhD on the interface between modernist theatre and philosophy (University of Edinburgh), my research has been particularly preoccupied with questions of the political in performance, explored through the lenses of philosophy, performance theory and practice, that expand across the human and beyond the human.
I'm an editor of the international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed Performance Philosophy journal (https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/about), and I’m a founding member of the Performance Philosophy Network https://www.performancephilosophy.org. I also co-convened, at the Theatre and Perormance Research Association (TaPRA), the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Group for several years (2010-16).
My two co-edited collections Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (Palgrave 2017) and Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in theatre and Performance (Routledge 2018) rehabilitate perceived notions of the political from the point of radical vulnerability, failure, and resilience. And, currently, I'm co-editing two journal themed editions: Performing Powerlessness (Performance Philosophy Journal, April 2022) and On Biopolitics (Performance Research, Summer 2022).
My practice is interdisciplinary, bringing together film, media and performance, and has a particular interest in projects that promote civic engagement. Some of my latest practice takes place in museum and gallery spaces by developing public performances from their archives and artefacts. I've developed a series of public performances at the Petrie Museum (UCL) funded by the Loterry Heritage fund, and various performance projects from a range of narratives at the LIFT archives, the Women Art Collections and the Hackney Empire archives funded by the UEL Archives.
Before joining the University of the West Scotland in 2020, I taught at the Wimbledon Arts College (University of the Arts London) (2018-20) and the University of East London (2010-18). At the University of East London, I held programme leadership roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate drama programmes, and was a co-director of the research Centre for the Performing Arts Development. (2013-17).
Overview
Current Teaching
Performance Contexts: Creative Processes
Performance Contexts: Testing Ideas
Culture and Society
Dissertations
Overview
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Beyond Failure: New Essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, eds. Eve Katsouraki & Tony Fisher (Routledge, 2018)
Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Philosophy eds. Tony Fisher & Eve Katsouraki (Palgrave, 2017).
Journal Editions
Eve Katsouraki, Simon Donger, ed. 'On Biopolitics,’ Performance Research, Vol 27, Issue 1, (Jan 2023).
Eve Katsouraki, Georg Docker, Gerald Siegmund, ed. ‘Performing Powerlessness,’ Performance Philosophy Vol 7. No 1. (April 2022).
Eve Katsouraki & Will Daddario, ed. Performance Philosophy, 2:4, Jan 2019.
Eve Katsouraki; Theron Schmidt; Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca; Kelina Gotman, ed. Performance Philosophy, 2:2, June 2018.
‘Bodies of Failure’, eds. Katsouraki E & Watt D, Somatechnics, 3:1, 2013, Edinburgh University Press.
Overview
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
'Vulnerable Paths to Freedom,' Eve Katsouraki & Simon Donger, in "On Biopolitics," Performance Research, Vol 27, Issue 1, (Jan 2023), pp. 1-6.
'Power and Powerlessness in Performance; An Introduction in Three Parts', Georg Döcker, Eve Katsouraki, and Gerald Siegmund, in Performance Philosophy Journal, Vol 7, No. 1 (April 2022), pp. 1-31.
'Another Image of Existence,' Denise Ferreira da Silva, Valentina Desideri, Georg Döcker, Eve Katsouraki in Performance Philosophy Journal, Vol 7, No. 1 (April 2022), pp. 132-145.
'Powerlessness as Potential,' Gigi Argyropoulou, Georg Döcker, Eve Katsouraki in Performance Philosophy Journal, Vol 7, No. 1 (April 2022), pp. 198-211.
‘Theatre’s Broken Middle’ in Beyond Failure: New essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, ed. Eve Katsouraki and Tony Fisher, (Routledge, 2018).
‘Introduction: Knowing Failure’ Eve Katsouraki & Tony Fisher in Beyond Failure: New essays on the Cultural History of Failure in Theatre and Performance, ed. Eve Katsouraki and Tony Fisher, (Routledge, 2018).
‘Plastic Animals in Praxes of Metamorphosis' in The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, eds. Helena Grehan and Peter Eckersall (Routledge, 2018)
‘Zoedramatics in Bio/Interspecies Performance, “We keep our biologies intimate” eds. Nicolas Salazar Sutil and Ric Allsopp in Performance Research, 22:2, 2017, pp. 74-86.
‘A Life Not Worth Living: On the Economy of Vulnerability and Powerlessness in Political Suicide’ in Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy, ed. Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki (Palgrave 2017).
‘Epilogue: The ‘Trojan horse,’ Or from Antagonism to the Politics of Resilience’ in Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy ed. Tony Fisher and Eve Katsouraki (Palgrave 2017).
'Editorial - Performance Philosophy', Katsouraki E; Schmidt T; Cull Ó Maoilearca L; Gotman K, 2017, Performance Philosophy, 2:2, pp. 162 -171.
‘Affirmative Antinomies of Naturalist and Realist Theatre’ eds. Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh, inPerformance Research, 19:2, 2014, pp. 63-73.
‘Violating Failures: Rosa Luxemburg’s Spartacus and Dada Anti-manifestation,’ in Somatechnics, ed. Eve Katsouraki and Daniel Watt 3:1, 2013. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 50-71.
‘Bodies of Failure: An Introduction’, Eve Katsouraki and Daniel Watt, D. Somatechnics, 3:1, 2013, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-8.
‘Žižek’s Death Drive, the Intervention of Grace, and the Wagnerian Performative: Conceptualising the Director’s Subjectivity,’ in Žižek and Performance, ed. Broderick Chow and Alex Mangold (Palgrave, 2014).
‘Aesthetic Encounters of a Collective Consciousness,’ in Embodied Consciousness: Technologies of Performance ed., Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young (Palgrave, 2013).
‘Acting Transmutations: From Imitation to Interpretation,’ Origins of Dramatic Modernism in England 1870-1914, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Gregory Tague (Academica Press, 2010).
‘Between the “performative” of Nietzschean philosophy and Modernist Theatre Practice,’ Ethical Encounters: Boundaries of Theatre, Performance and Philosophy, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe and Daniel Watt (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).
External positions
External Examiner MA Scenography, The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London
1 Sept 2016 → 30 Sept 2021
External Examiner MA Theatre Arts, Middlesex University
1 Sept 2015 → 30 Sept 2019
External Assessor for validating the MA Scenography, The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London
29 May 2015 → …
External Assessor for validating MA Theatre Arts, Middlesex University
11 May 2014 → …
Keywords
- B Philosophy (General)
- Directing
- Acting
- Performance theory
- Modernist Theatre
- Theatre Histories
- Civic Engagement
- Activist Performance
- Participatory Performance Practices
- Museums and Galleries
- Performing Archives
- Practice as Research
- JC Political theory
- Performance Philosophy
- Sustainability
- Animal Performance
- Medical Humanities
- Bio-art performance
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions -
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Vulnerable paths to freedom
Donger, S. & Katsouraki, E., 12 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Performance Research. 27, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Another image of existence: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Valentina Desideri on their practice of poethical readings, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the need for a radical reevaluation of modern politics. An interview by Eve Katsouraki and Georg Döcker
da Silva, D. F., Desideri, V., Döcker, G. & Katsouraki, E., 22 Apr 2022, In: Performance Philosophy. 7, 1, p. 132-145 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Power and powerlessness in performance: an introduction in three parts
Döcker, G., Katsouraki, E. & Siegmund, G., 22 Apr 2022, In: Performance Philosophy. 7, 1, p. 1-31 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Powerlessness as potential: Gigi Argyropoulou on artistic self-organisation in times of crisis, the micro-physics of power in theatre occupations, and how performance can learn from children. An interview by Eve Katsouraki and Georg Döcker
Argyropoulou, G., Döcker, G. & Katsouraki, E., 22 Apr 2022, In: Performance Philosophy. 7, 1, p. 198-211 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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Chair of the conference workshop: Arts-based Methods and Climate Change, Climate and Culture Summit, Turning the Tide: Learning from Arts and Climate Initiatives in Scotland
Kosmala, K. (Member of programme committee), Katsouraki, E. (Invited speaker), Scott, J. (Invited speaker) & Affelt, D. W. (Invited speaker)
25 Apr 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference