About Me
Antje Budde
Creator Educator Artistic Researcher
Hiddensee 2022
Antje Budde (安琪。布德) is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and studies studied theatre sciences (Theater/Wissenschaften), cultural communication and modern Chinese Studies at Humboldt-University in Berlin and at the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院), Beijing.
Antje has co-founded several artistic collectives and labs, grounded in critical practices of queer-feminist artistic research.
Antje’s research in recent years focussed on digital literacy, digital dramaturgy in/as experimental performance, the interdisciplinary concept of the performing arts/media as “being for others”, disappearing technologies/ anArcheology/ sustainability, and the development of a critical and innovating praxis and philosophy of A/I (artistic intelligence) in the context of AI imperialism/ colonialism and the harmful disentanglement of the material reality from the virtual.
Recent Publications (selected)
Budde, Antje. “Moving. A/I in Projects of the Digital Dramaturgy Lab squared(DDL2) “Virtual Ecologies. Digitalitäten und Ökologien im Tanz” (Virtual Ecologies. – Digitalities and Ecologies in Dance) Ed. Yvonne Hardt, Marisa Joana Berg, Anna Chwialkowska, Ulrike Nestler. Jahrbuch Tanzforschung 23, Transcript Verlag Bielefeld 2024. 143-164.
Kulinna, Martin (photo) and Antje Budde (text) “Der Osten ist Gelb. Fahrrad und Alltag in China“ (The East is Yellow. Bicycle and the Everyday in China) Martin Kulinna (Ed.) Journal No.10. 36p. Stiftung Photographie SchwarzWeiss. Neubrandenburg. Germany. 2024.
Budde, Antje and Gustavo Sol. “PLAYStrong–Engineering POETICstates: On Facilitating Mental Health through Bio-Signal Interfaces and Brechtian Learning Strategies" Critical Stages/Scènes critiques The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT – June/Juin 2022: Issue No 25. Web.
Candy Otsíkh:èta and Antje Budde “Accountability. Intervention. Community. - On the making of a two-spirit music video for Toronto Pride Summer 2021” Special Issue. Ethics & Socially Engaged Theatre. Canadian Theatre Review. Issue #192. Fall 2022. pp.14-21.
Budde, Antje, Mark Chignell, and Jamy Li. 2021. arttech: Performance and Embodiment in Technology for Resilience and Mental Health. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’21 Companion), October 23–27, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. pp.310–314. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481728
Budde, Antje "Affecting the Apparatus: Queer Feminist Re/Decodings in the Digital Dramaturgy Lab, Toronto." In: Diamond E., Varney D., Amich C. (eds) Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times. Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2017
Recent Activities (selected)
March-June 2026, DAAD Visiting Professorship at the Institute for Cultural Policy, UNESCO Chair for Cultural Policy and the Arts in Transformation, Hildesheim University. Artistic-research project: "Decolonizing body politic: The Plate Camera Artistic Intervention Game. - Playfully engaging community with media histories of cultural policy making and g(local) self-imaging as public performance and communal exhibition"
2025-2026, Co-creator and co-facilitator, Decolonize Knowledge Flow – Collaboration between University of Toronto and Warwick University/ Workshop Series.
August 2025 Panelist on Research Methods TREPEx: Innovation in action. – The Conference Integrating Arts and Science to Innovative Healthcare. University of Toronto
July11, 2025 Budde, Antje (keynote) “Human Skin, Digital Mask: Exploring A/I (artistic intelligence), Building Decolonial Allyships and Queerly knowing Otherwise” Conference 10-12 July, 2025. African Theatre Association (AfTA). Stuttgart, Germany.
Budde, Antje (2024) “Embodied liveliness/Lebendigkeit Collective A/I and media anarcheology in a) performing and b) decolonizing a plate camera” FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology. June 23-28, Windsor. Canada.
2018-2025 Recent Artistic Lab projects see Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared
