Claudia Kappenberg is a performance and media artist and Principal lecturer at the University of Brighton UK. Her work borrows from the everyday, appropriates, recycles and remakes, to challenge the familiar credo of productivity and outcome through a deliberate squandering of effort and time. Productions are turned into process and functionality into play. At the heart of the practice is an interrogation into that which makes us human.
Her work has been shown internationally across Europe, the US and the Middle East in the form of live, site-specific events and screen-based work. Kappenberg is founder editor of The International Journal of Screendance. Her writing has been published in, Anarchic Dance (Routledge 2006), International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Routledge 2009), Art in Motion: Current Research in Screendance (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2015), The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (Oxford University Press 2016), Syncope in Performing and Visual Arts (Editions Le Manuscrit 2017) and Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice (Intellect 2018).