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Cordula Daus

is a writer-artist whose work explores place, sexuality, and the body. Language as material drives her process. Emerging from long-term field studies, her practice often involves collaborations with scientists and other artists. Her novel Sehr was published by Ritter Verlag in 2024. Currently, Cordula is an Elise Richter PEEK fellow at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she leads the artistic research project outerwoman.

Since 2000 Cordula has founded invented institutions such as S.OG Büro at Berlin/Alexanderplatz, BCNova! (The New Barcelona), and the New Society for Applied Toponymy, through which she performed and published experimental publications such as the series Toponymisches Heft (Fantôme Verlag Berlin). Her books and performances have been presented at brut Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Literaturhaus Wien, the Research Pavilion #3/Venice, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica/Barcelona, Conceptual Poetics Day, Akademie der Künste/Berlin, rumbalotte Berlin, among others.

Cordula holds a PhD in Art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, an MA in Digital Arts from Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, and an MA in Cultural Studies (major), Art History, and Theater Studies from Humboldt University Berlin. She has been a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Furthermore, she has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Muthesius University of Fine Arts Kiel, and the Literaturinstitute in Hildesheim, and has given lectures, workshops, and conference talks internationally.

Together with Alexander Damianisch, Emma Cocker, and Lena Séraphin, Cordula Daus co-founded the Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research (SIG/SAR). Since 2019, Cocker, Daus, and Séraphin have facilitated a series of gatherings and events for artists and researchers, taking place both online and onsite at the Research Pavilion in Venice and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Together with choreographer Charlotta Ruth, she initiated the ongoing art project Questionology, which premiered in 2021 at brut Wien.