Klara Kofen UK/DE

Klara is an artist, dramaturg, writer, and researcher whose work is concerned with histories, speculative, counterfactual, real and imagined and the way technological interfaces shape our relation to time and affect.

As the artistic director of Waste Paper Opera since 2015, she creates sound-based multimedia performances that challenge traditional boundaries between live art, music, and technology. Her research is rooted in her background in early modern history, particularly the history of science and the French Revolution. She has written on diverse subjects including trade secrets and artificial intelligence, the origins of meteorology, mystic sects in the seventeenth century, baroque gesture, and transhumanism in opera.

In the field of opera, Kofen collaborates as a dramaturg and writer with renowned baroque ensembles including Ensemble Molière and Opera Settecento. Her scholarly work explores post- and transhumanist themes in futurist and neofuturist opera, reflecting her broader interest in how historical and speculative narratives inform our relationship with technology and performance.

Her multidisciplinary approach combines rigorous historical research with contemporary technological exploration, creating works that question established narratives while proposing new ways of understanding sovereignty, time and affect. She occasionally investigates international trade shows.

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