Between Reality and Fiction

Kristina Hagström-Ståhl is a researcher, director, and translator, who works at the intersection of critical theory and artistic practice with interests in feminist and decolonial theory, performance and philosophy, questions of visuality, dramaturgy, and translation, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts. Kristina publishes internationally, and has a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Recent work in directing includes August Strindberg’s/Margareta Hallin’s Den Starkare (Strindbergs Intima Teater, 2020), Sophocles’ Antigone (Gothenburg City Theatre, 2019), and Kristian Hallberg’s Här skulle vi leva, tillsammans (Folkteatern Göteborg, 2017). Kristina is the 2020 Hildeman Fulbright Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle. Between 2015 and 2020 she was PARSE Professor of Performative Arts at the University of Gothenburg.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Christiane Jatahy is an award-winning author, theater director and filmmaker. She has degrees in theater and journalism, and she holds a postgraduate in Art and Philosophy. Her works are in dialogue with different artistic areas, and she has created several plays that question the boundaries of reality and fiction, actor and character, theater and cinema. Among her productions are Julia (2011), What if they went to Moscow? (2014), The Walking Forest (2016), and Ithaca (2018).