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STATIONS (selection)

• since 2021: Initiator, founding member and speaker (together with Frieda Nastold) of the AG Queering: Visual Cultures & Intermediality(specialised society for gender studies) and Teamer(SCHLAU Marburg_Gießen - Education & anti-discrimination on sexual and gender diversity)
• since 2020: Board member (currently: 2nd spokesperson) of the Gender Studies Association and Schreibbegleitung ( Writing support programme for term papers and theses, C. v. O. University of Oldenburg)
• 2020-21: Editorial member of the Working Paper Series gender(ed) thoughts
• since Nov. 2019: Research Associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture (IfKuvK) of the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg
• 2019-21: Editorial board member of On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
• 2019: Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles
• 2018: Archive research in New York
• 2017: Visiting scholar in the Department of Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo
• 2016-21: Teaching assignments at various universities (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, JLU Gießen, Phillips University Marburg and C.v.O. University of Oldenburg)
• 2016-17: Speaker of the research area 4 Visual and Material Culture Studies at the GCSC of the JLU Giessen
• since 2016: PhD student at the GCSC and the Institute for Art Education at the JLU Giessen (ongoing doctorate on Being struck by contemporary photographic art in SuchBEWEGUNG: Aesthetic ambiguity, experiencing ambivalence & possibilities of queer(end)-political engagement)
• 2015-16: Working student at Konzept und Kommunikation - Museumsberatung Dr Beate Bollmann in Oldenburg
• 2013-16: Master's programme at the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg and at the University of Wisconsin-Superior(Art and Media Studies), research assistant & tutor at the Institute of Material Culture (IfmK) and tutor at IfKuvK of the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg, art educator at the Horst-Janssen-Museum
• 2013: Intern at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York
• 2010-13: student assistant at the IfmK at the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg
• 2009-13: Bachelor's programme at the C.v.O. University of Oldenburg(Material Culture: Textiles and Art and Media), student assistant & tutor at IfmK and tutor at IfKuvK at C.v.O. University of Oldenburg

SHORT BIO (English)

Oliver Klaassen is a research associate at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg and a Ph.D. candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) of Justus Liebig University Giessen. In addition, they serve not only as a board member, but also as a speaker of the research working group QUEERING: Visual Culture & Intermediality within the German Gender Studies Association. Last but not least, Klaassen works as a coach/writing assistant in the programme Writing Assistance for Term Papers and Theses (University Oldenburg) and gives workshops on the topics of sexual orientation and gender identity (= SCHLAU Marburg_Gießen). Her current research interests include queer(ing) art studies, history and theory of photography, aesthetic ambiguity in contemporary art, methods of art studies.

STIPENDIEN (selection)

• Fulbright doctoral scholarship & travel grant, doctoral scholarship, Dr. h.c. Waskönig Scholarship, PROMOS Scholarship and Germany Scholarship

Oliver Klaassen is a research associate at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg and a Ph.D. candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) of Justus Liebig University Giessen. In addition, they serve not only as a board member(German Gender Studies Association) but also as an editorial team member(On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture and Gender(ed) Thoughts). Klaassen's current research interests include queer art studies, art and club culture, history and theory of photography, aesthetic ambiguity in contemporary art, as well as queer museum studies and curatorial studies.

• Queer studies in art history
• Theory and history of photography
• aesthetic ambiguity (in) contemporary art
• methodological issues in art studies

(1) MONOGRAPHS

• 2015: "Alles so schön schwul* hier...‽" Reflections on representation-critical potentials, conditions and perspectives for the reorientation of the content of the Gay Museum* in Berlin. Studies in Material Culture (Q-Papers, Volume 18), Oldenburg: Institute of Material Culture, 2015.

(2) EDITION

Anthologies

• 2023: QUE(E)RULATE! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Science. Berlin: Neofelis. (with Lena Radtke & Andrea Seier) (in preparation)

Journal issues

• 2022: gender(ed) thoughts special issue on Queering: Minoritarian In_Visibilities in Art & Visual Culture Renegotiated, Autumn/Winter. (in preparation)

• 2021: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12: AMBIGUITY: Conditions, Potentials, Limits (with Isabella Kalte, Jens Kugele, Margarita Pavlova, Çiçek Tanlı, Lucia Toman & Eva Zimmermann)
• 2020: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 9: LOVE: Politics, Practices, Perspectives. (with Max Bergmann, Marie-Christine Boucher, Taya Hanauer, Jens Kugele, Çiçek Tanlı & Lucia Toman)
• 2019: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture Issue 8: Distribution. (with Max Bergmann, Marie-Christine Boucher, Taya Hanauer, Jens Kugele, Çiçek Tanlı & Simon Ottersbach)

Working Papers

• 2021: Rauber, Anne: Gendered Hygiene - Medicalised femininity through intimate hygiene; Gender(ed) Thoughts, Working Paper Series, Vol. 1. (with Christoph Behrens, Maximiliane Hädicke, Solveig Lena Hansen & Susanne Hoffmann)
• 2020: Jäntschi, Katharina: Investigating representations of femininity in the series Game of Thrones from a feminist media theory perspective; Gender(ed) Thoughts, Working Paper Series, Vol. 2. (with Christoph Behrens, Maximiliane Hädicke, Solveig Lena Hansen & Susanne Hoffmann)

(3) JOURNAL ARTICLES

with peer review

• 2021: I Spy with my Little Eye... Queer(ing) Counter-Surveillance Tactics of Camouflage and Opacity in Dean Sameshima's Art. In: InMedia. The French Journal of Media Studies [Online], 9.1 | 2021. InMedia [Online], 8.2. | 2020, Online since 22 October 2021, connection on 26 October 2021.
• 2014: Exhibition as Queering Space. Reimagining and queering museum spaces of hetero- and homonormative tradition. In: 360° - The student journal for politics and society on the topic of risk 2, 44-53.

without peer review

• 2021: (Re-)Negotiating Ambiguity's (Added) Value(lessness). In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12. (in collaboration with Sampada Aranke, Marie Sophie Beckmann, Ashton Cooper, Jakob Claus, David J. Getsy, Fatma Kargin, Erica Rand, Tillmann Schorstein, Sophie Sexon, William J. Simmons, Siim Sorokin & Lukas Mathis Töpfer)
• 2019: A Radical-Ambiguous (Re-)Vision of America's West. David Benjamin Sherry's Eco-Queer-Feminist Critique of America's Changing National Parks in his photo series Climate Vortex Sutra (2014). In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 7.
• 2014: Abstract of the bachelor thesis "Alles so schön schwul* hier...‽" Reflections on representation-critical potentials, conditions and perspectives for the reorientation of the content of the Schwules Museum* in Berlin. In: Forsch! Studentisches Online-Journal der University of Oldenburg I (2), 2014, 36-44.

Introductions/Editorials

• 2021: Editorial: Ambiguity: Conditions, Potentials, Limits. In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12. (in collaboration with Isabella Kalte, Jens Kugele, Margarita Pavlova, Çiçek Tanlı, Lucia Toman & Eva Zimmermann)
• 2020: Editorial: LOVE: Politics, Practices, Perspectives. In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 9. (with Max Bergmann, Marie-Christine Boucher, Taya Hanauer, Jens Kugele, Çiçek Tanlı & Lucia Toman)
• 2019: Editorial: DISTRIBUTION. In: On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture Issue 8. (with Max Bergmann, Marie-Christine Boucher, Taya Hanauer, Jens Kugele, Çiçek Tanlı & Simon Ottersbach)

(4) EDITED VOLUMES

with peer review

• 2019: Swimming Against the Hetero- and Homonormative Tide. A Queer Reading of Wolfgang Tillmans' Photo Installation (2004-2009) in the Panorama Bar at Berlin's Berghain. In: Jakob Ladegaard and Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen (eds.), Context in Literary and Cultural Studies, London: UCL Press, 135-155.

without peer review

• 2022: Ambiguous photo art & queer(end)-political engagement: A provisional toolbox for suchBEWEGENDE image approaches. In: Melanie Dietz / Nicole Kreckel (eds.), Reading political images: A toolbox for image decodingBielefeld: transcript (forthcoming)
• 2022: Queer(end)ing Relationality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Fleeting forms of intimate encounters & Dean Sameshima's being alone (2020-21). In: Katrin Köppert / Irina Gradinari / Julia Bee (eds.), digital:gender - de:mapping politics, Leipzig: Spector Books. (forthcoming)
• 2022: STAYING IN SEARCH MOVEMENT BY CONTEMPORARY PHOTO ART. A plea for a responsive research practice in art historical ambiguity studies. In: Barbara Paul / Andrea Seier (eds.), Defending Affectedness. Practices of Self-Politicisation in Art and Media, Berlin: Neofelis (in preparation).
• 2021: Photographic Ambiguity and Camouflaged Queerness: An Attempt to Determine an Exemplary Relationship. In: Ansgar Schnurr et. al. (eds.), Shaping ambiguity. Ambiguity and the formation of democratic attitudes in art and pedagogyBielefeld: transcript, 253-271.
• 2020: The Queerest Space of All is the Void: On the connection between traces and lesbian feminism in Kaucyila Brooke's artistic counter__documentary The Boy Mechanic/Los Angeles (since 2005). In: Britta Hoffarth / Eva Reuter / Susanne Richter (eds.), Gender and Media. Spaces, Interpretations, RepresentationsFrankfurt/New York: Campus, 300-322.
• 2014: Queering the Museum: Reflections on potentials, conditions and perspectives of queer-feminist critique of representation for museum and exhibition practice. In: Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (ed.), Pfadabhängigkeit | 2013, Speicher | 2014. Proceedings of the student conference for interdisciplinary research ZUfo, Nordersted: BoD - Books in Demand, 269-310.

(5) REVIEWS

• 2018: A Thin Line Between DOOR & TRAP: Why (Neo-)Liberal Trans* In_Visibility Matters [Review on: Gosset, Reina, Eric A. Santley and Johanna Burton (Ed.): Trap Door. Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Cambridge/Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017]. In: KULT_online 56.
• 2017: Für eine Ethik des dialogischen Sehens in der Kunstgeschichte und den Visual Culture Studies [Review on: Falkenhausen, Susann (Ed.). Beyond the Mirror. Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015]. In: KULT_online 52.
• 2017: Verque(e)ren Everyday and Scientific Practices [Review on: Paul, Barbara and Lüder Tietz (Ed.). Queer as... - Critical heteronormativity research from an interdisciplinary perspective, Bielefeld: transcript, 2016]. In: KULT_online 50.

(6) MISCELLANEOUS

• 2022: "De-self-understanding the self-evident." A text and sound contribution to the painting "Selbstbildnis des Künstlers mit seiner Familie" (c. 1704) by Nicolas de Largilliére, project "Gegenreden" in the permanent exhibition "Remix 20/20. Die Sammlung neu sehen" at the Kunsthalle Bremen.
• 2021: The scholar-led.network manifesto. Scholarly publications in open access, operated, promoted and managed by the scholarly community. Zenodo. (with focus group scholar-led.network)

• 18.12.2021: #4EuropeanGenderStudies: Practices and Politics of Queer-Feminist Solidarities in Academia / ONLINE-Roundtable Discussion / Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien (with Andrea Geier & Beate Binder)
• 02.07–03.07.2021: QUE(E)RULIERT! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Science / Interdisciplinary ONLINE Conference / Institute of Art and Visual Culture, C. v. O. University of Oldenburg (with Lena Radtke)
• 18.12.2020: #4EuropeanGenderStudies: Politics and Future Strategies / ONLINE-Roundtable Discussion / Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien (with Andrea Geier, Katrin Köppert, Beate Binder, Sarah Elsuni, Hannah Fitsch & Muriel González Athenas)
• 04.12.2020: 10th Gender Research Day (ONLINE) / Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies (ZFG), C.v.O. University of Oldenburg (with Sylvia Pritsch & Pia Schlechter)
• 12-14 November 2019: Renegotiating Minoritarian In__Visibilities / International and interdisciplinary conference / GCSC, JLU Giessen (with Catheriné Ludwig-Ockenfels, Jana Tiborra & Katharina Wolf)
• 18-19 January 2018: Exploring Political Dimensions of the Visual / Interdisciplinary Methods Workshop / GCSC, JLU Giessen (with Astrid Groholsky, Laura Holderied & Katharina Stornig)

(1) GUEST LECTURES

• 19.01.2022: DECIDEDLY UNDECIDABLE. On the interplay of ambiguity & queer(end)-political engagement in contemporary photographic art / Online series of lectures Transitions. Inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on gender studies / ZFG, C.v.O. University of Oldenburg
• 21.01.2021: Introduction to Queer Theory / Online lecture Bildung - Differenz - Subjekt / Institute of Educational Sciences, C.v.O. University of Oldenburg
• 14.06.2018: Thinking-&-Feeling-Photography. A Toolbox for a Queer Reading of Radically Ambiguous Politics of Representation / Series of lectures How to Do Literary and Cultural Studies: Methods of Analysis / Institute for English Studies, JLU Giessen
• 07.11.2017: Swimming Against the Tide: A Queer Reading of Wolfgang Tillmans' Panorama Bar Installation (2004-09) at Berlin's Nightclub Berghain / Queer Studies Research Network / State University of New York at Buffalo
• 26.06.2017: US-American 'landscapes' as a symbol for the unlimited possibilities of queer worlds of experience in David Benjamin Sherry's photo series Climate Vortex Sutra (2014) / Series of lectures exploring decolonial and queer feminisms / Institute of Sociology & Institute of English Studies, JLU Giessen

(2) CONFERENCES

• 2018
  • 'A Place, Promise, That Has Not Yet Been': Queer Environmental Ethics in David Benjamin Sherry's Climate Vortex Sutra (2014) / Territories that Matter: Gender, Art and Ecology (23.11-24.11.2018) / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Huesca Convention Centre, Madrid
  • On the topicality of radical-ambiguous aesthetics in queer photography / That's aesthetics! - X. Congress of the German Society for Aesthetics (14.02-17.02.2018) / Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main

(3) SUMMER SCHOOLS

• 2017:
  • Thinking and Feeling Queerness through Wolfgang Tillmans' Cameraless Photo Series Freischwimmer / Summer School for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics (SSSCP) (21.08-27.08.2017) / Research Centre for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center) / Singiduum University, Belgrade
  • "Swimming Away from Normative Fixations" The Politics of Wolfgang Tillmans' Cameraless Photo Series Freischwimmer in the Context of Techno and Rave Club Culture / The Hermes Summer School for Literary and Cultural Studies (12.06-16.06.2017) / Aarhus University

(4) RESEARCH DAYS

• 23.05.2018: QUE(E)Rschwimmen. Wolfgang Tillmans' radical-ambiguous Politics of Representation (commented by Dr Antke Engel) / Research Day of the GGS Section Social Inequality and Gender / Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Economics and Law (GGS), JLU Giessen
• 08.02.2017: On the queer-feminist potential of radical-ambivalent invisibilities / Briefings2^- Innovative Research in the Fields of Art Education, Media Studies, Art Studies, and Visual Culture / Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

(5) WORKSHOPS

• 23.02.2019: Enduring queer states of radical ambiguity. An art education experiment / Ambiguity. Forming democratic attitudes in art and education / Conference organised by the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and JLU Gießen in co-operation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) / K20 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
• 26.04.2016: "Queerseum" On the role of the museum as a discursive venue for negotiating gender and sexuality / Exhibition OFFEN GEFRAGT! What exhibitions don't usually talk about / bau_werk Halle, Oldenburg

(6) ROUNDTABLES

• 01.11.2021: Resisting Hypervisibility through Body Neutrality? (ONLINE) / Centre for Media and Interactivity, JLU Giessen

• Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien/Gender Studies Association
• Society for Media Studies
• German Society for Aesthetics
• Network Gender & Diversity in Teaching
• Digital Focus Group Scholar-Led (independent publication projects)
• Section Media and Gender, Centre for Media and Intermediality (ZMI), JLU Giessen