ABSTRACT

We interviewed Florian Malzacher in November 2019 via Skype. In January of 2020, we met for coffee when Florian came to New York for the Under the Radar festival. We had been reading Florian’s publications: his edited collection Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy (2017) was especially relevant to developing our thinking in this book. Florian’s work on political theater, performing knowledge, and activism has been influential and inspiring to many people.