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Biography
Ben Spatz is a nonbinary scholar-practitioner and a leader in the development of new artistic and embodied research methods. They are Reader in Media and Performance at University of Huddersfield (UK) and author of three books: What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum 2020). Ben is founding editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research and the Punctum imprint Advanced Methods. Their work has been presented at more than thirty institutions in eighteen countries. For more information, please visit: <www.urbanresearchtheater.com>.
Research Expertise and Interests
• Performer training and performance technique
• Theatres of musicality and song
• Intersections of performing, martial, healing, and ritual arts
• Audiovisual and embodied practice research methods
• Critical race studies, gender studies, new materialisms
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, City University of New York
Award Date: 30 Sep 2013
External positions
External PhD Supervisor, University of Gothenburg
External PhD Supervisor, University of York
External PhD Supervisor, University of the Arts Helsinki
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ancestors: an illuminated video
Spatz, B., Ercin, N. & Mendel, A., 5 May 2021, In: International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. 17, 1, p. 46-55 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Artistic research and the queer prophetic
Spatz, B., 1 May 2021, In: Text and Performance Quarterly. 41, 1-2, p. 81-105 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Earthing the Laboratory: Speculations for Doctoral Training
Spatz, B., 31 Aug 2021, In: Performance Research. 25, 8, p. 33-41 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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He Almost Forgets That There is a Maker of the World
Spatz, B., Ercin, N., Gatt, C. & Mendel, A., 11 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Embodied Research. 4, 2, 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
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Illuminations
Spatz, B., 11 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Embodied Research. 4, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Technique and Identity: In Apprenticeship to Black Studies
Ben Spatz (Speaker)
1 Dec 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Somaticizing the Camera
Ben Spatz (Speaker)
19 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Thresholds: Race, Artistic Research, and the Forms of Knowledge
Ben Spatz (Speaker)
22 Jul 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Making a Laboratory: What Method for Erotohistoriography?
Ben Spatz (Speaker)
11 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Queering Annotation: Entanglements of Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research Video
Ben Spatz (Speaker)
14 Jan 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk