Diaspora (An Illuminated Video Essay)

Ben Spatz; Eda Erçin; Agnieszka Mendel; Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz

doi:10.33303/gpsv2n1a1

Authors

Ben Spatz University of Huddersfield
Eda Erçin University of Exeter
Agnieszka Mendel Independent artist
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz Wellesley College Emerita; The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Author Biographies

Ben Spatz, University of Huddersfield

Ben Spatz is author of What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research (Routledge 2015); AHRC Leadership Fellow (2016-2018); editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research; and Senior Lecturer at University of Huddersfield. For more information on the Judaica project, please visit: urbanresearchtheater.com.

Eda Erçin, University of Exeter

Eda Erçin, currently an advanced PhD researcher in Drama and Performance Practice at the University of Exeter, is a long-term theatre artist and social researcher who has specialized in practice as research, physical auto (biographical) performance, and everyday performance of gender

Agnieszka Mendel, Independent artist

Agnieszka Mendel is a singer, actress, voice and theatre teacher, traveler, ethnologist, and photographer who for fifteen years worked closely with the Gardzienice Centre for Theatre Practices in Polan

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, Wellesley College Emerita; The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz is a visual artist based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Professor of Art at Wellesley College (emerita) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and a 2007 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow