Prof. Dr.
Kai van Eikels

Kai van Eikels is a philosopher, theater and literature scholar. After visiting professorships in Gießen, Berlin and Hildesheim, he is currently a senior academic advisor at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum. His research focuses on anarchic, self-organized collective forms; art and labor; politics of the performative; synchronization, time and materiality; cuteness. Publications include "The Art of the Collective. Performance between Theater, Politics, and Socio-Economics" (2013); "Art works - Aesthetics of Postfordism" (with the Art + Labor Network, 2015); "Synchronize. An Essay on the Materiality of the Collective" (2020););

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