Josefine Wikström

Josefine Wikström is a critic and researcher living in Gothenburg. Her research focuses on dance and performance in contemporary art from art philosophical and historically materialist perspectives. She is the author of the book Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of performance (2021), Objects of Feminism (2017 together with Maija Timonen); Kritik av konstens frihet (2022 together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West) and Autonomins Sken: Om Kalliasbreven och frågan om estetikens politik hos Friedrich Schiller (2024 together with Gustav Strandberg and Kim West). She has been published in journals such as Radical Philosophy, Third Text, Performance Research Journal and Texte Zur Kunst. She writes regular dance critique for Dagens Nyheter and serves as one of the editors of the experimental philosophy- and art- platform SITE Zones. She works as a senior lecturer in the theory and practice of contemporary performative arts at the Academy of Music and Drama, at Gothenburg University.