Raz Weiner

Dr. Raz Weiner is a scholar of performance studies, politics, and embodiment. His work focuses on traditions, archives and contemporary forms of colonialism, racialisation and queerness, the production of bodies and knowledge, and the co-constitution of human societies and digital worlds. Raz has extensive experience in performance and arts as a trained actor and director, as well as in education and facilitation of multi-cultural groups.

 

Before becoming a research fellow (2023), and a visiting lecturer (2024) at mdw, he was based in the School of Politics and IR at Queen Mary University in London (2020-22) and the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at The Technion in Haifa (2021-3), where he explored data-theatres and collaborated on innovative digital tools to address social inequalities in urban decision making.

 

Publikationen

Published Peer-reviewed Articles

  • Weiner, Raz. 2024. ‘Playing Africans: Kibbutz Educational Performance, 1950s–1990s’. The Drama Review (TDR) 68:3 (T263) https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204324000236
  • Weiner, Raz., Mello Rose, F., Yossef Ravid, B., Rainer Noennig, J., & Aharon-Gutman, M. 2023. ‘Place-bound planning support systems for deliberation: Affording better communication and comprehension’. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231217784
  • Weiner, Raz. 2021. ‘Disorienting Settler-Phenomenology: Architecture Drag and the Dramaturgy of Archive Misalignment’. Contemporary Theatre Review 31 (1–2): 212–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2021.1878501
  • Weiner, Raz. 2020. ‘Of Hills and Wheels Tilda Death Drags Memory’. In Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1, edited by Stephen Farrier and Mark Edward. Methuen Drama. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350082977

Under review

  • Weiner, Raz & Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. ‘How Can Immersive Theatre Inform the Design and Use of Immersive Visualisation Theatres for Smart Cities’, City and Community

Forthcoming submissions for peer review

  • Weiner, Raz & Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. ’Metaphor as Vehicle:  the role of metaphorical embodiment in the mediation of new data visualisation environments for urban planning. Journal of Planning Theory
  • Weiner, Raz & Meirav Aharon Gutman. ‘Between Orientation and Presence: Comparing decision-making in a descriptive model with decision-making in an immersive model. Cities

Published peer-review Book Chapters

  • Weiner, Raz. Lexical entrees ‘Zvi Friedland’, ‘Yosef Milo’, ‘Nisism Aloni’, ‘Udi Ben Moshe’, ‘Yael Ronen’ and ‘Bashar Murkus’; The 2024 Edition of Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Directors and Directing. Ed. Maria Delgado and Simon Williams.

Published Book Reviews

 

 

THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE (Selected works)

 

  • Writer and Performer in the drag lecture performance On Stage the Pain Was Less, The Comedy Festival, Jerusalem 2022
  • Maker of Isolated Case: A data play, A-Genre Festival Tel-Aviv, 2022
  • Translator and director of Gustav by Henrik Bratberg, Habima Theatre 2023, English version, Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival, Norway, June 2022
  • Co-founder of Queervention (London UK), a queer artistic platform of co-resistance: creating a performance for Tate Modern Museum on May 2019, hosting a panel on ‘Queer Jewish humour’ June 2018 at Kings College, and a Raze-Collective produced show Cocktails Before the Revolution in December 2020
  • Directing and dramaturgy in the drag-king show Motherland, Camden People’s Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre, London UK 2019
  • Directing and dramaturgy for Emma Berentsen autobiographic work ‘Ann Meets Jeffery’, Battersea Arts Centre, London UK 2019
  • Dramaturg and director at Mystorin Theatre Group, creating large scale site-specific and immersive theatre experiences (SEVEN Tel-Aviv Central Bus Station 2014; Aftershook VR performance, Jerusalem 2017; Who Killed Arlosoroff? The Musical!  Beit-Ha’air Tel Aviv 2018; Uncaged lockdown-time interactive digital comic thriller 2020 and others)
  • Drag Artist since 2013, maker and actor of the monodrama Life and Times of Tilda Death, Israel Festival, Jerusalem. Transferred to the Jaffa Theatre, Tel-Aviv

 

 

 

 

 


Dr. Raz Weiner

Postdoc Fellow

 

E-Mail: weiner@mdw.ac.at