Katja Hilevaara
Lecturer
Theatre and Dance
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Katja Hilevaara is a practitioner-researcher and teacher, whose work reflects on, and engages with acts of memory/mis-memory as creative critique, constraint-led performance and ideas surrounding maintenance, enchantment and becoming. Katja's performance and installation work has been presented in London and around the UK and Europe, in sites such as the Rag Factory and Resistance Gallery in London, and at venues such as the Camden People’s Theatre, Drill Hall, BAC, ICA and the Shunt Lounge, also in London; as well as Manchester Green Room, Edinburgh Traverse and Studio T in Utrecht.
Research Interest
Interested in exploring ideas surrounding domestic labour and the ethics of delight, image-making, place and the ephemerality of performance
Publications
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the world rests on a tortoise Saner, Göze and Hilevaara, Katja. 2009. the world rests on a tortoise. In: "Let’s Murder the Moonshine: 100 Years of Futurism", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
