New Professor
at the department Language Arts
Swantje Lichtenstein
Swantje Lichtenstein
Claudia Böhm
23. October 2018
Swantje Lichtenstein tought as Professsor for
Text and Aesthetic Practices at the University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, language arts at the University of Applied
Arts in Vienna and liminal agencies at the Institut for Music and Media/Robert Schuman-Conservatory and as lecturer i.e. at
ifs- international film school, Cologne, KHM (Academy of Media Arts), University of Delhi, Unversity of Cologne etc.
She is a writer, artist, performer, professor, translator and publicist. Her main interest are the
liminal agenicies between poetics, performance, text, sound and theory. Her base is language and text based sound art, electro-acustic
and conceptual writing and recording from a transmedial and feminist perspective. She performed worldwide in different festivals
and locations: reiheM, Cologe, Sound-Text-Festival, Issue Project Room/Goethe Institute New York, non event/Goethe Institute,
Boston, Poetic Voices Africa-Festival, Cologne., Sound Eye-Festival, Cork, International Poetry Festival, Bucarest, Istanbul,
Turkey, Gundalajara/Mexico City, Salon de Poesie/Goethe Institute, European Writers Festival, Yerevan etc.
Artist
Residencies in Nairs/Switzerland, Istanbul/Turkey, Svendborg/Danmark, Johannesburg/South Africa etc.
Publications
(Selection): Von Form von Vorn. Literarisches Hören und performatives Schreiben, Munich 2017, Jono Podmore/Swantje Lichtenstein:
Lewes/Miss Slipper, PSY004, Duesseldorf/London 2016 (Record), Is the artist necessary for making art today, Cologne 2016,
Transkript, Cologne 2016, Ausfindig machen. Sprachkunst und textuelle Verfahren in den Kuensten, Cologne 2015, Kommentararten,
Berlin 2015, Geschlecht. Berlin 2013, Covertext: Context, Cologne 2013, Horae, Berlin 2011 Entlang der lebendigen Linie,
Wien 2010 etc. Translator of V. Place/R. Fitterman: Notes on Conceptual Poetry (Covertext, Berlin 2013) and K. Goldsmith:
Uncreative Writing (Unkreatives Schreiben, Berlin 2017) etc.
