Daniela Hahn

Daniela Hahn received a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on movement experiments in art and science around 1900. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center “Performing Cultures” and at the Center for Movement Research at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2011, she has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Graduate School “Interart Studies.” Her research and teaching is dedicated to performance and visual art situated within socio-cultural and science-historical contexts, focusing on documentary art, artistic research, and the intersections between art and science. Her book, Epistemologien des Flüchtigen. Bewegungsexperimente in Kunst und Wissenschaft um 1900, will be published in the fall of 2013. In her current research project, “After the Fact. Politics of the Document in Contemporary Art,” she investigates the concepts of the document that underpin the documentary in art and its changing condition in the era of digital images. The project seeks to illuminate the processes of producing and circulating documents within artistic practices, as well as the aesthetic and epistemological procedures which define documentary modes in art and their claims to facticity.