Raz Weiner

 

 

Raz Weiner forscht zu Performance und politischer Theorie. Im Fokus steht hierbei, performative Techniken in die Wissenschaftsfelder Sozialforschung, Digital Queer Humanities und Urban Studies einzubeziehen. Zuletzt hat er mit dem Smart Social Strategy Lab an der Technion Haifa und der School of Politics and IR an der Queen Mary University London zusammengearbeitet. Seine Forschung zielt darauf, die Perspektiven und Methoden der Performing Arts durch disziplinenübergreifende Austauschformate und Practice Research zu erweitern.

 

 

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.

 

 

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