Photo above by Sarah Walker
Artistic Statement:
I believe in "art that hurts, provokes and rises in revolt to make the world a better place" (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Berlin). As a performer and artist, I look for new ways to work collaboratively, cross borders and interdisciplinary boundaries that engage audiences in a twenty-first century way. My work is in a constant state of change and evolution, but it intersects at theatre, movement and multimedia. Through use of surrealism, absurdism, direct audience address and performance, it explores patriarchal and capitalistic power structures that have made us all complicit. It always asks the question, how does our past inform our present? And specifically, how does a feminist, intersectional lens help us interrogate the systems we live in?
April Albert is an international theatremaker, performer and lecturer. She creates feminist, political performance work that interrogates how the historical and cultural resonates in our current social and political experiences. She received an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King's College in London. She then began a PhD in Audience Reception Studies, Cultural Policy and Theatre in Germany and the UK, at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After a move to Melbourne in 2010 she moved her PhD research to the University of Melbourne, but children, loss and life eventually got in the way. She paused her PhD and continued to be an independent researcher, presenting at International Theatre conferences in Europe. Growing up in both the US and Europe, April is multilingual and has studied and performed in Germany, the UK, US and Australia. She is currently a free-lance lecturer in Theatre, Devising, Cultural Policy, Creative Research Methods and Arts Management in Naarm (Melbourne) . She divides her time between Australia and Europe.
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands I live, work and create. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I celebrate and acknowledge the rich history of art-making and storytelling that's happened on the lands of the Kulin Nation.
Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
All photos below by Matto Lucas
I believe in "art that hurts, provokes and rises in revolt to make the world a better place" (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Berlin). As a performer and artist, I look for new ways to work collaboratively, cross borders and interdisciplinary boundaries that engage audiences in a twenty-first century way. My work is in a constant state of change and evolution, but it intersects at theatre, movement and multimedia. Through use of surrealism, absurdism, direct audience address and performance, it explores patriarchal and capitalistic power structures that have made us all complicit. It always asks the question, how does our past inform our present? And specifically, how does a feminist, intersectional lens help us interrogate the systems we live in?
April Albert is an international theatremaker, performer and lecturer. She creates feminist, political performance work that interrogates how the historical and cultural resonates in our current social and political experiences. She received an M.A. in Text and Performance Studies from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and King's College in London. She then began a PhD in Audience Reception Studies, Cultural Policy and Theatre in Germany and the UK, at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After a move to Melbourne in 2010 she moved her PhD research to the University of Melbourne, but children, loss and life eventually got in the way. She paused her PhD and continued to be an independent researcher, presenting at International Theatre conferences in Europe. Growing up in both the US and Europe, April is multilingual and has studied and performed in Germany, the UK, US and Australia. She is currently a free-lance lecturer in Theatre, Devising, Cultural Policy, Creative Research Methods and Arts Management in Naarm (Melbourne) . She divides her time between Australia and Europe.
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands I live, work and create. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I celebrate and acknowledge the rich history of art-making and storytelling that's happened on the lands of the Kulin Nation.
Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.
All photos below by Matto Lucas
CV available on request - a.albert@ gmx.co.uk