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About
Katharina Ludwig is a writer, poet, theorist, artist, and editor.
Their research interests span from poetry, political and social poetics, micro press publishing, art history, literary and poetic analysis and critical theory to psychoanalysis and philosophy. Further their work is concerned with trauma, gender, class, postcolonial theory, disability and crip studies.
Katharina has worked on the topic of narrative holes and the insurrectionary poetics of the ‘wounded text’, engaging with the textual wound as a political and writerly strategy in opposition to authoritarian systems, the building of archives of voices excluded from canonical histories, fragmented, incoherent, disjunct and multi-linear narratives and temporalities, polyvocal writing and storytelling, communal histories, holes in texts and narratives, the hole in texts as sites of resistance, textual wounds, wound related medical histories, critical discussions of possibilities and aspirations of healing, mysticism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and the revolutionary potential of poetry.
Building on this, more recently their research trajectories have expanded towards theories of violence, bodies in revolt/revolting bodies, revolutionary movements, and global histories and practices of revolution and revolt.
Their first single authored book ‘The Hole: An Insurrectionary Poetics’ will be published at the end of 2025 through a collaboration between Ma Bibliothèque and Cutt Press. The work will be published as one collection of experimental, critical texts narratively connected by recurring characters and themes in classical but elegant book form with Ma Bibliothèque. The narrative however will be supported (or one could say, the narrative will be interrupted) by a compendium of three parallel published opuscules, each containing one essay, affordably printed, but nonetheless beautifully designed, by Cutt Press. The book and opuscules will be available to readers either as a bundle or separately.
Their poetry chapbook ‘The Girl Without’ (working title) is forthcoming with Baulk Press, also at the end of 2025.
Katharina’s work has been published, shown, performed, and read internationally. Often their work leaves the page and takes shape as reading performances at conferences, art venues, and such. Their literary writing and poetry can be found at a.o. 3am Magazine, Zeno Press, Tripwire Journal, Strings Magazine, antiphony journal, Ma Bibliothèque and Nightboat Books. They have written and published on topics such as women’s mysticism, medieval physical abject engagements with wounds, discussions of multi-disciplinary (poetic) approaches toward trauma and narratives. Their scholarly writing has been published in academic journals in the frameworks of medical humanities, trauma studies, psychoanalysis, and artistic research.
They hold a PhD in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024), for which they were awarded a full-time scholarship from Cusanuswerk e.V.. They have an MFA Fine Art, also from Goldsmiths (2013) and funded by the Annegret und Hans-Richard Meininghaus-Stiftung, and a BA in Design from Design Academy Eindhoven (2009).
In addition to their own practice and research Katharina works on editorial, curatorial, and educational projects and is co-editor of VORTEXT, a poetry mail subscription magazine.
pronouns: they/them, she/her