Elke Gaugele & Mona Schieren
Elke Gaugele is Cultural Anthropologist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is project director of the Austrian Center for Fashion Research, was a research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded a Lise Meitner-Habilitationsstipendium (2005–06) and a Maria Goeppert Mayer chair (2004). Publications include: Fashion and Postcolonial Critique (2019), coed. with Monica Titton; Critical Studies: Kultur- und Sozialtheorie im Kunstfeld (2016), coed. with Jens Kastner.
Mona Schieren teaches Theory and History of Art at University of the Arts, Bremen and is co-director of the Institut Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft. She was guestprofessor at ZHdK Zürich, Università IUAV Venice, Universität Hamburg. Topics of her research include transcultural studies in modern and contemporary art, fiber art, theory and history of body practices and performance studies, collectivity and forms of activism. Her book Transcultural Translation in the Oeuvre of Agnes Martin. The Construction of Asianistic Aesthetics in American Art after 1945, Munich 2016 (German) was recently awarded with the International Publication Prize of the Terra Foundation to be translated in English. She is the editor of RE: BUNKER. Erinnerungskulturen – Analogien – Technoide Mentalitäten, with Katrin v. Maltzahn, (ARGO 2019); Look at me! Celebrity Culture at The Venice Art Biennale, with Andrea Sick (Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2011); She is a member of the DFG research network Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents.