Katie Schaag
Katie Schaag is a theorist, artist, and writer making work for the page, stage, gallery, screen, and social context. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a specialization in performance studies and visual cultures and a minor in fine art and creative writing. Her first scholarly book project, “Conceptual Theatre,” theorizes minoritarian avant-garde closet drama, conceptual art, and digital media. Her second project, “American Plasticity,” theorizes plastic’s queer materiality. Her scholarly writing is published in Inter Views in Performance Philosophy and forthcoming in Modern Drama, and her public multimedia essays appear in Edge Effects and Yes Femmes. Her creative writing usually takes the form of experimental scripts and scores, which she remediates into site-specific performances, artist’s books, theatrical situations, and audio installations. Her poems and plays have been staged at Hemsley Theatre and published by Requited Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Oxeye Press, and elsewhere; and she has performed or exhibited her work at Woman Made Gallery, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Little Berlin, and elsewhere. In addition to her solo art practice she has a collaborative practice with SALYER + SCHAAG; their four-month participatory project Performing MMoCA was part of Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s 2016 Wisconsin Triennial. She co-founded the Art + Scholarship Mellon Workshop and the Madison Performance Philosophy Collective, and co-curated a series of Theory-Practice Collaboratories and Mad Theory symposia. She is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.