In the closing event of the Archive as Strategy research strand, Vienna-based curator and author Luisa Ziaja discusses the notion of post-representational curating in the light of the series’ premise of the political potential of archives. She will put special emphasis on agency-oriented concepts of curatorial and artistic knowledge production and questions related to the dramaturgy of objects and the performativity of archives. Luisa Ziaja will be joined in conversation with Lina Dzuverović.

Luisa Ziaja is an art historian and Curator of Contemporary Art at the 21er Haus in Vienna.  She has curated numerous independent exhibition projects addressing the relationship between contemporary art, society and history. Ziaja was an assistant curator at the Generali Foundation from 2001-2004, and has been co-director of the postgraduate program in exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna since 2006.

Ziaja has been a lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts; Technical University, Vienna (2008/09); the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2004/05) and the Vienna Art School (2004–06). She is on the board of schnittpunkt – exhibition theory & practice, and regularly publishes in catalogues, anthologies and magazines on contemporary art, curatorial practice and exhibition theory.