{"id":571,"date":"2019-08-01T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=571"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:03:32","slug":"katie-schaag","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/katie-schaag\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Schaag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katie\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Schaag<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>is a theorist, artist, and writer making work for the page, stage, gallery, screen, and social context. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a specialization in performance studies and visual cultures and a minor in fine art and creative writing. Her first scholarly book project, \u201cConceptual Theatre,\u201d theorizes minoritarian avant-garde closet drama, conceptual art, and digital media. Her second project, \u201cAmerican Plasticity,\u201d theorizes plastic\u2019s queer materiality. Her scholarly writing is published in\u00a0<i>Inter Views in Performance Philosophy<\/i>\u00a0and forthcoming in\u00a0<i>Modern Drama<\/i>, and her public multimedia essays appear in\u00a0<i>Edge Effects<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Yes Femmes<\/i>. Her creative writing usually takes the form of experimental scripts and scores, which she remediates into site-specific performances, artist\u2019s books, theatrical situations, and audio installations. Her poems and plays have been staged at Hemsley Theatre and published by Requited Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Oxeye Press, and elsewhere; and she has performed or exhibited her work at Woman Made Gallery, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Little Berlin, and elsewhere. In addition to her solo art practice she has a collaborative practice with SALYER +\u00a0<span class=\"il\">SCHAAG<\/span>; their four-month participatory project Performing MMoCA was part of Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\u2019s 2016 Wisconsin Triennial. She co-founded the Art + Scholarship Mellon Workshop and the Madison Performance Philosophy Collective, and co-curated a series of Theory-Practice Collaboratories and Mad Theory symposia. She is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie\u00a0Schaag\u00a0is a theorist, artist, and writer making work for the page, stage, gallery, screen, and social context. She earned her PhD in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a specialization in performance studies and visual cultures and a minor in fine art and creative writing. Her first scholarly book project, \u201cConceptual Theatre,\u201d theorizes minoritarian avant-garde closet drama, conceptual art, and digital media. Her second project, \u201cAmerican Plasticity,\u201d theorizes plastic\u2019s queer materiality. Her scholarly writing is published in\u00a0Inter Views in Performance Philosophy\u00a0and forthcoming in\u00a0Modern Drama, and her public multimedia essays appear in\u00a0Edge Effects\u00a0and\u00a0Yes Femmes. Her creative writing usually takes the form of experimental scripts and scores, which she remediates into site-specific performances, artist\u2019s books, theatrical situations, and audio installations. Her poems and plays have been staged at Hemsley Theatre and published by Requited Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Press, Oxeye Press, and elsewhere; and she has performed or exhibited her work at Woman Made Gallery, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Little Berlin, and elsewhere. In addition to her solo art practice she has a collaborative practice with SALYER +\u00a0SCHAAG. She is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech.","protected":false},"featured_media":577,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}