Karin Michalski hat für uns ein besonderes Filmscreening mit Vortrag organisiert und wird mit uns die Verflechtungen von queer politics, empowerment und affect theory diskutieren.

Karin Michalski works as artist, filmmaker and film- and videoart curator and lecturer in Berlin. She studied Film Directing and Production (creative producing) at the German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) as well as Journalism, Political and Educational Science at the Universities in Mainz and Berlin. With her films and videos such as The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (14 min., 2014, text-based video projection), The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (13 min., 2012), working on it (50 min., 2008, Co-Director: Sabian Baumann), Monika M. (15 min., 2004), Pashke and Sofia (30 min., 2003) and women videoletters – a second text on war and globalization (80 min., 2004, International group video project) she has been invited to numerous festivals and exhibitions.

Since 2001 she has been organising the queer-feminist Film and Video Art Program series clipclub (in collaboration with Renate Lorenz and other curators) and she works as Film and Video Art Curator, creating programs for art institutions, festivals and conferences.
Currently she is working as interim professor for art and media studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM).