Rag – Research Art and Gender
Das Forschungsnetzwerk rag – research art gender verbindet Wissenschaft und Kunst trans-disziplinär und trägt so zu einer inhaltlichen Weiterentwicklung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung bei. In diesem Forschungsnetzwerk werden Gender Studies-Forschung und -Lehre in der Schweiz strukturell durch die Zusammenführung von Schweizer, Deutschen und Österreichischen Forscher*innen vernetzt und trinational gestärkt.
Presentation
The network considers academic and artistic approaches as equally valuable and mutually influential forms of knowledge production, critique and intervention. It therefore works across institutional boundaries, bringing together universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes. rag creates spaces for dialogue on current debates around gender and society, both within and beyond academia, in collaboration with artists working in fields such as film, theatre, literature, performance and the performing arts. These exchanges can lead to joint projects, including team teaching and lecture series.
The network generally meets twice a year to exchange ideas on current and future projects and organises one project each year at one of its three locations in Switzerland, Germany or Austria. Current projects by network members are also presented on the art of intervention (aoi) blog.
Events
On 31 May 2024, rag organised the conference Möglichkeitsräume behaupten. Transdisziplinäre Dialoge zu Kunst und Leben at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, under the direction of Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl and Doris Ingrisch.
In September 2025, at the conference of the Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SSEG), rag explored the diverse traditions of kitchen politics within the seemingly private space of the kitchen, also incorporating queer-feminist genealogies of artistic interventions into relations of power and domination.
Contact
Membership of the research network is open at any time. For further information or to join the network, please contact Christa Binswanger at christa.binswanger (at) unisg.ch.
Members
- Prof. Dr. Christa Binswanger (SHSS, Universität St. Gallen)
- Dr. Dominique Grisard (Swiss Center for Social Research; Universität Basel)
- Lea Dora Illmer (Universität Basel)
- Dr.in Univ. Doz.in Doris Ingrisch (mdw-Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)
- Prof.in Dr.in Anne-Berenike Rothstein (Universität Konstanz)
- Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl (Filmakademie Wien; mdw-Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien)
- Dr. Andrea Zimmermann (Swiss Center for Social Research; Universität Bern)