Vita

Marietta Kesting supports the Director in coordinating the core project Reduction and its current focus Models and in planning project-related events and publications. Her research focuses on media, arts, technology, and cultural studies — always in dialogue with postcolonial and queer studies.

Before joining the ICI Berlin she held the position of Junior Professor for Media and Art Theory at the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 2016–22 and a Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna from 2008–11 and at the interdisciplinary laboratory ‘Image Knowledge Gestaltung’ at Humboldt University from 2014–16. Her PhD, Affective Images of Post-Apartheid: Documentary Perspectives on Migration, Xenophobia, and Gender in South African Film and Photography (2015), was funded by the DFG and nominated for the Humboldt Prize. From 2015–18 she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, in the FWF project ‘A Matter of Historicity: Material Practices in Audiovisual Art’. She curated film programmes for the cinema of the mumok museum in Vienna and the photo-exhibit ‘Now you see me, now you don’t’ for the National Theatre of Mannheim; she also directed several essayistic films. Kesting has been part of the publishing collective b_books, Berlin since 2004 and a member of the editorial board of FKW *Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture* since 2017. She writes for Texte zur Kunst, Social Dynamics, and FKW Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, among others.

Selected Publications

Books / Edited Volumes

Articles

Publications

Books / Edited Volumes

Articles

  • ‘Roboter-Träume? Der Schlafroboter Somnox’, in digital gender – de:mapping politics: Spekulieren mit 30 Objekten, ed. By Julia Bee and others (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2023).
  • ‘Wer schreibt? Wer spricht? @Glissantbot: More than Human Politics of Languaging in the Post-Colonies’, in Human after Man, ed. By Marietta Kesting and Susanne Witzgall (Zurich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2023).
  • Archive queeren? Prekäre Sichtbarkeiten, instabile Erinnerungen, (Post-)Apartheid’, in Queeres Kino | Queere Ästhetiken als Dokumentationen des Prekären, ed. By Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Philipp Hanke (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), <https ://doi.org/10.37050/ci-22_06>.
  • ‘Bildung zwischen Battlefield und Spielplatz: Über die Ausstellung Bildungsschock im Haus der Kulturen der Welt’, Texte zur Kunst, 20 August 2021 <https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/marietta-kesting-bildung-zwischen-battlefield-und-spielplatz/>.
  • ‚Quarantäne und Affekt‘, co-authored with Gabriele Dietze, in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 17 June 2021 <https://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/blog/quarantaene-und-affekt>.
  • ‚Immersion und Environment: Prolegomena zu einer Affekttheorie‘, in Politik der Emotionen / Macht der Affekte, ed. By Marietta Kesting and Susanne Witzgall (Zurich and Berlin: diaphanes 2021), pp. 163–78.
  • Rezension von Imaginings of Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography, ed. Von Tina Campt u.a. (Steidl 2020), sehepunkte, Rezensionsjournal, edition 21, # 6 (2021).
  • ‘[Dream] Images of Earth in Quarantine – Some Photographs in Times of Crisis without Humans’, in Photography & Culture, Vol. 14, Issue 2 (2021), pp.117
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  • ‘Affective Archives: Re-Animating Family-Photographs in Film’, in Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges, ed. by Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, and Kylie Thomas (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 205–26.
  • ‘Nationale Stoffwechsel: Möbel, Macht und Mythos: Henrike Naumanns Arbeiten’, in Katalog der Ausstellung: Interiorities / Innenleben (Dt. und Engl.), Haus der Kunst, ed. by Anna Schneider (Munich: Prestel, 2020). 
  • ‘Oh, du arme Utopie der gebrochenen Stimmen! Marietta Kesting über “Prekärotopia” im Lenbachhaus, München’, Texte zur Kunst, 11 June 2019 <https://www.textezurkunst.de/articles/oh-du-arme-utopie-der-gebrochenen-stimmen/>.
  • ‘Hybride Medienarchipele in Sondra Perry’s Typhoon Coming on und Louis Henderson’s All that is solid’, in Hybride Ökologien, ed. by Marietta Kesting, Susanne Witzgall, Maria Muhle, and Jenny Nachtigall (Zurich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2019), pp. 167–82.
  • ‘Changing Visual Politics in South Africa: Old and New Modes of Exclusion, Protest, and Offence’, in Media and the Politics of Offence, ed. by Anne Gräfer (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. 91–106.
  • ‘Im Bann des Kreises: Über raster-noton im Kunstbau des Lenbachhauses’, Texte zur Kunst, 111 (2019).
  • ‘Is History a Work in Progress?’, in ‘Macht was’ – Kunst zu 68 und Heute / ’Udělejte něco…’– Umění k roku 68 a současnosti, ed. by Johannes Kirschenmann and Caroline Sternberg (German and Czech), (Munich: Akademie der bildenden Künste München, 2019), pp. 18–28.
  • ‘Jetzt “Andere Menschen Denken”, Über den 3. Berliner Herbstsalon’, Texte zur Kunst, 109 (2018), pp. 160–65.
  •  ‘Goldene Zitronen – (Körper-)Politiken in Beyoncés Lemonade, in Sexualität und Wiederstand in internationalen Filmkulturen, ed. by Julia Köhne et al. (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2018), pp. 334–50.
  • ‘Erase our genetic fingerprints?’, in Visualität und Abstraktion: Eine Aktualisierung des Figur-Grund-Verhältnisses, ed. by Hanne Loreck (Hamburg: Material-Verlag, 2017), pp. 128–143.
  • ‘Trance, Rave, Ritual – The Museum of Trance in Haiti’, in Reale Magie, ed. by Susanne Witzgall (Zurich and Berlin: diaphanes, 2017), pp. 189–212.
  • ‘Operative Porträts und die Spuren von Körpern – Über die Konstruktion pikturaler Evidenz’, in Spuren: Erzeugung des Dagewesenen, ed. by Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, pp. 87–97
  • ‘Performing Histories with Obsolete Media – The Example of a South African Photo-Film’, in Alphaville, 12 (2016–17).
  • ‘Photographic Portraits of Migrants: Framed between Identity Photographs and (Self-)Presentation’, in Photography in and out of Africa: Iterations with a Difference, ed. by Louise du Toit and Kyle Thomas (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 471–94.
  • ‘Migration Zu-Sehen-Geben: Strategien der Sichtbarmachung in zwei südafrikanischen Dokumentarfilmen’, in Zooming IN and OUT: Produktionen des Politischen im neueren deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilm, ed. by Julia B. Köhne and others (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2013) pp. 39–51.
  • ‘Bilder der Migration – Europa und die Anderen. Strategische visuelle Repräsentationen’, in Kulturanalyse im zentraleuropäischen Kontext, ed. by Wolfgang Müller-Funk and others (Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 2011), pp. 45–58.
  • Rezension von Visionary Archive, ‘It All depends #3’, Arsenal Berlin, 2015, curated by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet and Tobias Hering.
  • ‘Aliens und Migranten’, in ‘Ich. Heute. 10 vor 8.’, FAZ-Blog, 8 May 2015 <https://blogs.faz.net/10vor8/2015/05/08/aliens-und-migranten-4507/>.