Christina Wintersteiger

Austria (residence)
affiliation: Film Academy Vienna at the mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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Christina Wintersteiger (MA BA BA) is a film and literary scholar, curator and author with a focus on queer film theory and monster studies. She studied Film Studies and Comparative Literature in Vienna, Paris and Berlin and is a PhD candidate at the University of Music and Performing Arts - Film Academy Vienna. In addition to her work in film and literary studies (publications, lectures), she works for several film festivals, magazines and research projects, currently in the PEEK project (FWF): Confronting Realities. Working on Cinematic Autosociobiographies (start mid September 2021). In her scholarly work, specifically in the context of her dissertation at the Film Academy Vienna, and in her ongoing education as a psychotherapist, she has concerned herself in depth with reflection on social and cultural environments and their inscriptions in the individual.

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  • (NOT) ENTERING EVERY ROOM - Exploring autosociobiographies via liminal crossing points of social class and the emotion shame (2023) author(s): Barbara Wolfram, Christina Wintersteiger published in: Research Catalogue
    (Not) Entering Every Room, conducted 2020/21 at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, set out to use the emotion shame as a focus to reveal and explore unconscious liminal crossing points in our biographies and perceptions of social class, building on our previous research on cinematic (auto)sociobiographies (2020). We are shaped, guided and scarred by our socialization and the society surrounding us. Each individual history brings with it a different knowledge repertoire about what belonging or not-belonging, „normal“ or „abnormal“ means. Spoerhase (Politik der Form 2017) describes the exploration and disclosure of one’s own biography in relation to social context & class, to one’s body, time & place of birth as “auto-sociobiographical”. He refers to the literary works of Annie Ernaux or Didier Eribon where individual life stories evoke a collective memory of a certain time and place, revealing liminal experiences of social class. One emotion that was mentioned more often than any other in these literary works, was shame. To explore our own histories of experiences and the attached knowledge repertoire, we used the methodology of collective (auto)sociobiographical exploration via a multi-layered artistic approach. Body work (Chechov, Shdanoff), writing improvisations and group explorations via zoom were used to probe the methodology of (auto)sociobiographical exploration in the light of shame and social class. Research on cinematic (auto)sociobiographies is still very new. We aim at contributing a method of exploration to the field of cinematic form and content production informed by artistic research methods.
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