Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir

M.A.

Univ.-Lekt.in

Telefon: +43 1 71133 2761

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2014 PhD candidate, University of Münster, Germany. Member of the Graduate School ‘Practices of Literature’. Title: “Subversive Esotericism and Aesthetic Radicalism. The Myths and Rituals of Viennese Actionism.” Thesis submitted on 11.05.2021
Since 2020 Working with a project group on the translation and publication of international avant-garde manifestos. Funded by the University of Iceland Research Fund.
Since 2018 Member of Kunstverein Format (*.strk).
2016–18 PhD Research Stay at the University of Vienna.
2016 smartNETWORK Grant for international Research Stay.
2016–18 Villigst Scholarship, Germany.
2015–16 Lecturer in German Studies at the WWU Münster.
2015–16 DAAD Research Grant.
2012–13 Erasmus Exchange at Humboldt University, Berlin. Winter- and summer semester.
2011–13 M.A. in Literary Studies at the University of Iceland.
2011 Teaching assistant in Literary Studies at the University of Iceland.
2007–11 B.A. in Literary Studies at the University of Iceland.

“Gestating Bodies. Performing Masculinity in Viennese Actionism”. To be published in the peer-reviewed journal Correspondences, a special issue on ‘Masculinities, Sexualities and Esotericism’. Forthcoming
“Ósiðlegir gjörningar og róttækar launhelgar. Um klám, sataníska tilbeiðslu og lífhyggju í Abreaktionsspiel Hermanns Nitsch” (Indecent Performances and Radical Mysteries. On Pornography, Satanic Worship and Vitalism in Hermann Nitsch’s Abreaktionsspiel). Published in Ritið. An Icelandic peer-reviewed journal devoted to the humanities. 2017

Encountering the Nonhuman. Narrating Techno-Hybrids between Otherness and the Utopian at CIVA festival. Vienna, Austria. 2021
Divine Madness. Reality and Consciousness in Günter Brus’ Zerreißprobe at the 7. ESSWE Conference, “Western Esotericism and Consciousness. Visions, Voices, Altered States”. Amsterdam, Holland. 2019
Transgressing Boundaries. Aspects of Reality in Otto Muehl’s Oeuvre at the 6. EAM Congress, “Realism(s) of the Avant-Garde and Modernism”. Münster, Germany. 2018
Bitchcraft. The Occult in Feminist Pornography at the 6. ESSWE Conference, “Western Esotericism and Deviance”. Erfurt, Germany. 2017
Manifesting the body. The Vienna Actionist Project Die Blutorgel at the 5. EAM Congress, “Quest and Investigation”. Rennes, France. 2016

Organized exhibitions and events at Format (*.strk) in Vienna. 2019–2021
Co-Curated the exhibition “Prismatic Devices” as a part of The Wrong biennale. Shown at Format (*.strk) in Vienna. 2019
On the organisation committee for the symposium “Dissidence and Subculture” at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. 2014