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BIOGRAPHICAL
Currently based in Leipzig / slowly building networks and practices / recently finished the Master of Fine Arts Program Body, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative (MFA KTPP) at ABK Stuttgart / in the past years learning from and working with Discoteca Flaming Star (Cristina Gómez-Barrio & Wolfgang Mayer), Paula Kohlmann, Sergio Zevallos, Ines Kleesattel, Niall Jones, Liz Rosenfeld, Yara Richter, Toni Böckle, Stella Ruszkowski, Ludgi Porto, Moriz Stangl, Mona Gablenz, Mara Engelsberger, Aline Xavier Mineiro, Madeleine Bovidae, Una Herbst, Lea Lenk, Vesna Hetzel, Rainer Ganahl, and others.

Study biography: school in Munich, graduating with Abitur (2015) / studying Fine Arts and Art Education (BFA) at the Academy for Fine Arts in Stuttgart (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) plus German Studies at University of Stuttgart (2016-2021) / MFA Program Body, Theory and the Poetics of the Performative at ABK Stuttgart (2021-2024) / German Studies and Literature Studies (MA) University Leipzig (since 2024)

Projects, residencies, publications and exhibitions until now include:

→ solo and group text performances, experimenting with body, audience, voice and writing.
Performing ‚Intimacy is a monster‘ (part of the scorpio season research) (not public, 2024)
Performing ‚GORGE OUS MANIFESTO‘ at Apropos Lesebühne Leipzig (2024)
Performing ‚Mouth Meditation. To say yes, to say no.‘ at Hangar (2023) and PILOW (Performance in lots of ways) (not public, 2024)
Performing ‚writing tools poem‘ at the show of the publication ‚baby universe’ at Sommeraustellung AdBK München (2023)
Performance/Playshop ‚text + body = action?‘, two sessions (not public, 2023)
Performing ‚this is hybrid kloud, a body and moving space for practicing t3xt, sound and magic.‘ at Performance Night (not public, 2022)
Lecture performances at local gallery projects and festivals such as ‚temporary Gallery 28e‘ (2018) and ‚Nachtsichtfestival‘ (2018)

→ ‚Cassandra • choose the truth’, a music & theater performance created with Jule Bröcker, Reto Weiche, Martijn Susla, Vili Polajnar (2023-24)

→ ‚INTIMACY PIRATES’, lecture performance, part of the JETZT! Festival of Kulturregion Stuttgart, in cooperation with Kulturkabinett Stuttgart (2024)

→ ‚DEPERSONA‘, a short film by Kira Held and leon Liehr in which I performed/acted. (2024)

→ Co-Editing and organizing member of [kon] paper, an interdisplinary magazine for literature and culture (since 2024) >> https://kon-paper.com

→ Collaborative Sound Project ‚I am so available’ with Iris Eckert (2023-24)
>> https://iriseckert.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-so-available-ft-kai-kr-mer

→ Collaborative Performance ‚RUNNING RIVERS & SKINNED WORDS, THE PRESSURE TO PERFORM & THE ATTEMPT TO LOVE—Eine Aufführung in drei Akten.‘ with Mona Gablenz (part of master thesis/final work) (2024)

‚(WORDS) Ich will Nein sagen‘, a self-published anthology on artistic writing (availabe on request) (part of master thesis/final work) (2024) >> https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7oAdk6IH96/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

→ Short-term resident at hangar.org (Barcelona), part of the exchange grant program between Baden-Württemberg and Catalunya (2023) >> https://hangar.org/en/kai-kramer/

→ part of the seminar ‚artists writing‘ initiated by Sarah Lehnerer at AdBK München, including a publication ‚baby universe‘ and performances held and created at AdBK (2023-24)

→ Co-founding and Co-editing ‚MATRATZE MAGAZIN’ a (inter-universitary) magazine for text and photographic works students, published once a year (2018-2023)
>> https://www.instagram.com/matratzemagazin/

→ Co-organizing and collaborating in a research project for creating an experimental tool for transdisciplinary exchange on forests, called ‚Waldweb‘ >> https://forest.convivial.garden (2022-2023)

→ ‚Apotheca Shady Hearts‘, group performance of students of KTPP, developed for ABK Rundgang (2023)

→ ‚edging the self‘ & ‚edging the self in circles‘, a series of performances developed with Liz Rosenfeld (2023)

→ Internship at Jara Rocha in Barcelona, developing piece for the radio Dublab.bcn together (2022) >> https://www.dublab.es/shows/naturoculturas/03-10-22

→ ‚In the efforts of time | Nice & easy – nice & rough‘, performing in a piece by by Niall Jones (2022)

→ ‚watch me watching you drinking at the bar‘ (2022), a performative group show of students of KTPP at ABK Rundgang

→ part of the collaborative artistic research project ‚transfem0711‘ with Lea Lenk (since 2022) >> https://transfem0711.hotglue.me

→ Publishing text pieces, for example in ‚[kon]-Paper‘ magazine for literature and culture (issue 8, 2021) and in the project ‚artagainstfgc’ (2021)

→ Solo show und publication in „The Great Infinity Today“, an Exhibition und publication series of the class of Prof. Ricarda Roggan in collaboration with the class of Prof. Patrick Thomas (Akademie- award at Rundgang 2018)

I move, I rest, I try to do less