Berit Fischer

Berit Fischer is a transdisciplinary cultural practitioner: an artist, curator, scholar, writer, and an editor. She has been working internationally since 1999. Previously based in New York and London, she now works from Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. from the Winchester School of Art/Southampton University, UK. Her practice based doctoral research asked how curatorial practice can activate spaces and conditions for a micropolitical and holistic making of social empathy as an approach for a post-representational practice. Her research interests include civic engaging, somatic, and listening practices, feminist- and eco-pedagogies, critical spatial practices, and a holistic and experiential knowledge production to permeate the status quo. Her practice often unfolds in forms of affective encounter and relational learning that strives to activate agency and an active micropolitics, fields of action and spaces for critical consciousness raising and engagement.