Keren Zaiontz

Keren Zaiontz is Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Film and Media and Cultural Studies Program at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Her research examines how contemporary art and performance is remapping modes of spectatorship, shaping progressive social movements, and charting the right to the global city. She has co-edited special issues on the cultural politics of festivals and mega-events for the journals Canadian Theatre ReviewContemporary Theatre Review, and PUBLIC. Her books include Theatre & Festivals (2018), part of the Theatre & series, and Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas (forthcoming, 2019), co-edited with Natalie Alvarez and Claudette Lauzon, part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Contemporary Performance InterActions series.


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[UNTITLED] Water, Perspex, Soil, etc. : Gloss

The auteur at the heart of her text yearns to close the gap between the art object and herself, the art star. At least, she wants the appearance of having forsaken aesthetic detachment. And we’re with her.