Freda Fiala

writer, researcher and curator focused on performance-based artistic practices


Teaching

I teach performance history and theory, in relation to both artistic and institutional practice. My approach is informed by the relations of theory and practice, as well as by questions of cultural exchange and collaboration, and the notion of a ‘global art history’ with its canons and networks.

 [2024/25] Tanzquartier Wien / University of Vienna tfm / MDW Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien /  Dance Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava: ”Doing things with Theory [III]. Together with Adam Czirak, in collaboration with Alexandra Baybutt, Maja Hriesik, Anna Leon, Julia Ostwald. (Interdisciplinary course for BA & MA students in the fields of practice and theory).

[2024]
University of Vienna: “Networked Bodies. Performance and its history/ies in East Asia” ( Theatre Film and Media Studies BA).

[2023/24] Akademie der Bildenden Künste / Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: “Queering the canon – looking at the multiple histories of performance art” (Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies).

[2023/24] University of Vienna: “Performing MyOther. Exoticising and self-exoticising as performative practices” (Theatre Film and Media Studies BA).

[2023/24] Tanzquartier Wien / University of Vienna tfm / MDW Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien /  Dance Department of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava: ”Doing things with Theory [II].” Together with Adam Czirak, in collaboration with Alexandra Baybutt, Maja Hriesik, Anna Leon, Julia Ostwald. (Interdisciplinary course for BA & MA students in the fields of practice and theory).

[2022] Tanzquartier Wien / University of Vienna tfm / MUK Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien: “Doing Things with Theory [I].” Together with Adam Czirak, in collaboration with Esther Balfe, Alexandra Baybutt, Anna Leon. (Interdisciplinary course for BA & MA students in the fields of practice and theory).

[2021/22] University of Vienna: “Nonhuman Theatre? East Asian Perspectives” ( Theatre Film and Media Studies BA and MA).

[2020/21] P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), Individual Theory Mentor.