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Bechstein Luana
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University of Art and Industrial Design Linz
My research focuses on the intersection of aging studies and gender/queer studies. My work is concerned with images of the body and aging. In particular I focus on questions of identity and subjective construction, artistic processes and art as a means of self-awareness, self-expression and as a field of sensual knowledge on its own. I work with theories of new materialism and affect studies. As a scholar of cultural studies and as an artist it is important to me that I stay close to everyday life – both in my theoretical work and in my art. This is a critical part of my own scientific and artistic aging studies.
Keywords: images and concepts of aging, old age, materialities, art practices, affect theories
Curriculum Vitae
Luana Bechstein (M.A.) is a scholar in cultural studies, science of art and artist herself. Currently she is a PhD candidate at the University of Art and Design in Linz. Her research, under the title “Sensual experiences of Aging”, addresses the potential of art to evoke the individual, sensual experiences of aging, and develop a new way of thinking about old age. One goal of the thesis project is to consider how this affective-aesthetic knowledge can be further connected with other sciences such as gerontology and communication studies, and transferred into specific issues such as training programs for caregivers.
Luana Bechstein completed her master’s degree in cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on alternative images of aging in contemporary art works. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and biology at the University of Hamburg and has a B.A. in applied cultural studies from the Leuphana University Lüneburg. She lives in Berlin with her partner and dachshund.
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