Marie Glassl works as a dramaturg, curator, author and translator. Since her studies in literature and philosophy inFrankfurt a.M. and Venice, she works primarily at the interface between the performative arts and discourse. Her practice and research are particularly focused on materialities of language and current entanglements of aesthetics and language politics as well as early Italian feminist art tradition. In 2024 she is artistic director of the interdisciplinary project On Wasted Grounds that she organizes together with Diaphanes.
She is co-editor of the transdisciplinary and multilingual magazine DIAPHANES where she also presents a series of interviews with current thinkers from the arts and discourse. She has been speaker and moderator for conferences and festivals between the arts and science withAkademie der Künste Berlin, Migros Museum Zürich, Chronos Foundation andBolzano Danza. In her performative practice she collaborates with transdisciplinary artists and institutions worldwide like Emma Waltraud Howes, Constanza Macras/ Dorkypark or the Venice Biennale.
She translates poetry and political theory fromItalian and English e.g. texts by Ines & Eyal Weizman, Allison GrimaldiDonahue and NourbeSe M. Philip. From 2024 she translates the works of AliceCeresa into German and is co-editor of an upcoming Performance Reader togetherwith Johannes Odenthal.