Intellect

Claudia Kappenberg danced professionally in Europe and New Zealand and completed an MA Fine Art/Film and Video at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 1998. She is a senior lecturer in Performance and Visual Art at the University of Brighton. Her projects comprise single screen work as well as screen-based installations and live site-specific events and have been shown in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. Claudia is co-founder of the White Market project and co-curated the What If… Festival in London in 2010. She runs an international Screendance Network with UK- and US-based scholars and artists and is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Screendance. Research interests include screendance and interdisciplinary performance, site-specific work; theories and histories of the body and historical developments in dance, film and artist’s video; questions of representation within a post-modern framework, feminist debates within post-modernism and questions of authorship.