Stacey Sacks

Interested in trans-generational and intra-cultural haunting, Sacks’ artistic research frequently experiments with auto-ethnography and productive discomfort in multi-modal ways, attempting to discover sharper ways of giving attention, making safe space for generative failure. Via a series of inter-disciplinary corporeal and material experiments, the research at root asks questions around how to mobilize Sacks’ own positionality as a privileged body in the anti-colonial conversation. The ongoing research explores if and how clowning generates a kind of ethico-poesis, particularly examining how satire and parody might destabilize and rethink issues relating to power, race, privilege and identity. Or not. 

A professional actor/writer/director/researcher/clown, Sacks has taught and supervised at BA, MA and PhD levels in South Africa, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland and the USA; was a Fulbright Scholar in Connecticut, USA (2021-2022); presented The Walls Have Tongues or… at the Research Pavilion (Venice Biennale, 2017); published their PhD ‘thesis’ SQUIRM (2020), and is co-author of The Clown Manifesto published by Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama  (2015).

Sacks currently occupies the position of Professor of Acting at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH).