Sigrid Merx
Dep. Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen - Media en Performance S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr Sigrid Merx (1975) is an Assistant Professor Theatre Studies at Utrecht University where she teaches in the BA program Media and Culture Studies and in the MA program Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy. June 2009 she finished her PhD thesis on video and the (re)presentation of time in the Proust-cycle, a series of four performances by Flemish director Guy Cassiers. In this thesis, drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s work on time-images, she developed a conceptual framework to analyze time in intermedial performances. She was co-convener of the IFTR working group ‘Intermediality in theatre and performance’ from 2010-2013.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Merx, S. (2006). Swann's way: video and theatre as an intermedial stage. In F. Chapple & C. Kattenbelt (Eds.), Intermediality in theatre and performance (pp. 67-80) (14 p.). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Merx, S. (2006). Verdubbeling en transformatie. De rol van video in de Proust-cyclus van Guy Cassiers. In H. Havens & C. Kattenbelt (Eds.), Theater en Technologie (pp. 48-60) (13 p.). Amsterdam: Theater Instituut Nederland.
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Merx, S. (2011). Public Pie: Performing Public Space. Performance Research, 16 (2), (pp. 132-137) (6 p.).
