Jana Papenbroock grew up in New York and studied audiovisual media with a focus on film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. She works within the fields of film, video, installation, theater, radio, cultural education and writing. Her areas of research include inclusive, community-based artistic practices, ecological and anti-colonial counterculture, anti/psychiatry, dis/ability, transculturality and the ethics of enacting aesthetic practices within planetary boundaries to local benefit.
She is based in Berlin. Her video and performative works have been shown in cinemas, museums, theaters, educational contexts, galleries, radio stations and exhibition spaces. Her documentary films, mostly situated within the field of visual anthropology, have been screened and multiply awarded in international film festivals.
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