Key Researcher, FWF-PEEK Project, AR-780
September 2023 – March 2026
Shaken Grounds: Seismography of Precarious Presences
Throughout history, worship sites have been constructed where humans connect with the Earth’s interior—volcanoes, fissures, and caves—echoing a geological time beyond individual, human lifespans. Rituals enacted at these sites transform perceptions of time, cultivating a heightened responsibility towards the future.
A collaboration between Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek and Lucie Strecker.
Principal Investigator, FWF-Elise Richter PEEK, V-733, University of Applied Arts Vienna, March 2019 -February 2026
Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Narrations of Bare Bodies
A research project led by Mariella Greil. In dialogue with international specialists from the fields of Performance, Philosophy and Therapy, she explores the various relations and intersections between the three research areas with a focus on practices/forms/methods of Being-In-Contact, investigating, reflecting and synthesising the sharings and differences between them.
Principal Investigator, INTRA, University of Applied Arts, Vienna – February 2021 – July 2023
Passenger Diaries
Performative research on emergent subjectivities in trans-urban space
At a time when social media tempt us to keep diaries disclosed on a global scale, the question arises anew: how to share the intimate quotidian life that unpredictably unfolds day by day? How to find our way into the landscape of days? At the same time, we experience tough and strange days in which all our relationships to our diverse environments (Umwelten) change, and must change. We are already used to calling this change ‘climate change’. But have we yet understood what it really means, and what follows from it? Passenger Diaries is realised by key researcher Mariella Greil, Lucie Strecker, KT Zakravsky, associated researcher Viktor Fuček and guest artists and researchers Daniel M. Büchel, Heinrich Büchel, Thomas Feuerstein, Christina Gruber, Jens Hauser, Radek Hewelt, Elke Krasny, Robert Linke, Werner Moebius, Kira O’Reilly and Andrea Watzinger.
Key Researcher, FWF-PEEK Project, AR-283
May 2014 – April 2019, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line
With ‘arts-based research’ at its heart, Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line stages an interdisciplinary, inter-subjective encounter between the lines of drawing, choreography and writing in order to investigate those forms of ‘thinking-feeling-knowing’ produced within collaborative exchange. An interdisciplinary research collaboration involving artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and artist-writer Emma Cocker in dialogue with a team of international critical interlocutors including Alex Arteaga, Lilia Mestre and Christine de Smedt.
Principal Investigator, PhD – Roehampton University London, supported by a Postgraduate Scholarship for Doctoral Research awarded in January 2009
Being in Contact:
Encountering a Bare Body
In reference to my artistic work, this practice-as-research project explores the concept of bare bodies and how to encounter them in contemporary choreography. The thesis draws on philosophical, bio-political and ethical discourse relevant to my discussion of the emergence of bare bodies in choreographic work, and creates a critical framework for a self-reflexive movement between affect and ethics, sensuous address and response
Principal Investigator, On Collaboration Symposium 2013 | The Performing Arts Department at Middlesex University
fabric of trust
The blog fabric of trust is a collaborative contribution of Mariella Greil and Martina Ruhsam for the symposium “On Collaboration” (http://mdxoncollaboration.blogspot.co.uk).
We developed a 7-steps dialogue project, that stays – in mode and content – focussed on collaborative potentials and troubles.
Feel free to browse and download the collection of texts on the topic.
Associate Researcher – Performance Matters creative research project – A collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Roehampton, and the Live Art Development Agency, 2009 -2013
Performance Matters: Potentials of Performance
Performance Matters is a creative research project exploring the contemporary values associated with performance at a time when it has increased resonance as a cultural phenomenon, and as a concept and metaphor in critical discourse.
The contribution is a dialogue between dancer, choreographer and performer Mariella Greil and movement artist Emily Sweeney.
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