Performative and Media Anthropology | Projects

Kiss Lab

2026 | with Dr. Annika Strauss

The Kiss Lab is a participatory art and encounter format that explores physical proximity, touch, and nonverbal communication as social and cultural practices. During the event, a temporary space is created in which visitors become co-creators of a collective performance.

Sex on Stage

2025 | with Dr. Annika Strauss

Intimacy, eroticism, and sex on stage, in films, in literature... And what happens in our minds and with our own intimacy, eroticism, and sexuality when we consume all of this? The 6-part workshop attempts a joint, biographical and topical search for clues on the subject of the media representation of intimacy, eroticism, and sexuality. What do our own emotional worlds, ideas, and desires have to do with the society in which we live?

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Public Anthropology

2022–2027 | with Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger, Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz et al.

The network is pursuing three goals with its activities: First, it aims to trace the highly diverse approaches and practices in the field of Public Anthropology in the historical context of the anthropological disciplines. Second, it strives to establish an internationally connected Community of Practice in the field of Public Anthropology in Germany, reflecting the practices and conditions of public-oriented scientific research and work. Finally, the network seeks to establish sustainable cooperative structures between European and non-European Social and Cultural Anthropology, in which scholars from both disciplines work together on social challenges based on their ethnographic expertise(s), strengthening the exchange with existing networks.

“Encounter”: media workshops, collaboration with the public library Tempelhof-Schöneberg and the Mauerpark Institut e.V.

2019–2021 | with Dr. Judith Albrecht, Dr. Victoria Kumala Sakti, Dr. Sarah Fichtner, Dr. Boryano Rickum, et al.

The Media Workshop is a platform for dialogue which combines media training with a deeper reflection on life in a diverse urban community. Together with the Mauerpark Institut e.V., the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the FU Berlin, and residents, the project has created a pool of local protagonists, artists, researchers and students who have enriched the project with a wide range of cultural backgrounds.