Torsten Jost
Torsten Jost, Dr. phil., is a theatre/performance scholar currently serving as academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research focusses on interweaving performance cultures and on spectatorship as epistemic practice.
Subjects: Theater
Biography
Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence"Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie
Universität Berlin. After receiving his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in
2017, he joined the faculty of the university’s Theater and Performance Studies
Department, where he teaches courses in the bachelor’s and master’s degree
program. In 2018, Jost was invited as a guest lecturer by the Shanghai Theater
Academy, China. His dissertation, which was nominated for the Ernst-Reuter-
Prize, was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag under the title "Gertrude Stein:
Nervosität und das Theater" (2019, Gertrude Stein: Nervousness and the Theater).
Together with Erika Fischer-Lichte, he has coedited numerous books on theater
and performance in German and English, including "The Politics of Interweaving
Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism" (2014); "Theatrical Speech
Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments" (2020);
"Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World" (2021); "Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography (2022); and "Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Vol. I & II" (2023).
Education
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Dr. phil., Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2017
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Interweaving Performance Cultures
Spectatorship as Epistemic Practice
Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures
Epistemologies of Performance
Websites
Books
Articles
Growing into epistemic knowledge through performance: Rosanna Raymond’s “Soli I Tai—Soli I Uta” at Berlin’s Ethnological Museum
Published: Sep 29, 2021 by ORBIS Litterarum
Authors: Torsten Jost
Subjects:
Theater
This article explores Rosanna Raymond’s performative intervention titled “Soli I Tai—Soli I Uta” (Tread on the Sea—Tread on the Land) at the Ethnological Museum Berlin in 2014. It analyzes how Raymond’s performative intervention dramaturgically put different epistemic systems and “ways of knowing” into a contrasting relationship and thus enabled spectators to gain declarative epistemic knowledge, that is to say, knowledge about knowledge and different “ways of knowing.”