Biography
Hayat Erdogan is a Curator, Dramaturge and Scholar. She works as a Lecturer for Theory, Dramaturgy and Performing Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since season 2019/20 she is Artistic Director of the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich.
Hayat Erdogan studied German and English Literature (M.A.) at the University of Stuttgart and Dramaturgy (MA) at the Academy for Performing Arts in Ludwigsburg. In 2015 she began her doctorate in Philosophy at the Art University in Linz. During her studies she worked as amongst other things translator and dramaturge. In 2008 and 2009 she was a fellow at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich and Trieste. From 2010 - 2012 she was a collaborator of the International Institute of Political Murder - IIPM and a researcher in the SNF-project "Das Spiel mit den Gefühlen".
From 2014 - 2018 she was a member of the Theatre Commission of the City of Zurich.
From 2014 - 2016 she lead the artistic-research project "Polytropos - Dada on tour" within the project "Connecting Spaces" in Hong Kong and Zurich. From 2015 - 2018 she worked as a curator at the Cabaret Voltaire.
Publication
Selection
Past Artistic Research Projects:
www.connectingspaces.ch/projects/lab/polytropos/
polytropos.ch/
blog.zhdk.ch/trans/das-spiel-mit-den-gefuhlen/
Past Curatorial Work:
https://www.cabaretvoltaire.ch/de/fun-fury/word-up-past.html
Publications:
Erdogan, Hayat (2016): Kritik der unpraktischen Vernunft, In: Hans Arp Museum Rolandseck & Cabaret Voltaire (Hg.): Genese Dada, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, p. 102-113.
Erdogan, Hayat (2017): With you I breathe. Some Thoughts and Observations on Collaboration, In: Müller, Patrick & Krämer, Nuria: With. A Bookazine on Collaboration between Cultures, Art Forms, and Disciplines, Zurich University of the Arts, p. 330-343.
Erdogan, Hayat (2018), In: Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich (Hg.): Übertragung und Medialität, Journal für Psychoanalyse 59, Zürich: Seismo Verlag
- gemeinsam mit Olaf Knellessen: "Der Ausdruck, dass da nichts ist auszudrücken, nichts womit auszudrücken, kein Verlangen auszudrücken, zusammen mit dem Zwang auszudrücken." Beckett, Übertragung pur. p. 8-29.
- Laudatio für Dr. Eva Holling "Übertragung im Theater. Theorie und Praxis", S. 183-189.
Erdogan, Hayat (2021): Revolution im Wald. Eine Compilation, In: Lüscher, Ingeborg, Armand Schulthess, Periferia Edizioni.