Yvonne Rauter, BA MA
About the Person
Since 12/2024 | Fellow of the doctoral college „Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalization", Research Focus "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts", University of Innsbruck
Since 04/2024 | Doctoral studies in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and History, University of Innsbruck, dissertation field: Philosophy, supervisors: Andreas Oberprantacher and Iris Laner
Since 2023 | Youth Worker in Innsbruck
2020-2023 | Youth Worker in Merano, areas: youth centers, work training, conception of workshops and training courses, networking, social media
2016-2022 | Internship, project collaboration and subsequently employee at the Women's Museum in Merano; areas: scientific collaboration, conception of exhibitions and editing, reception, mediation & development of mediation programs, supervision of the specialist library, social media
2015-2019 | MA Gender, Culture and Social Change, University of Innsbruck & completion of courses in the MA Philosophy, University of Innsbruck
2012-2015 | BA Philosophy, University of Innsbruck
PhD Project
Curating the in-between : (how) is that possible? A philosophical intervention in exhibition work in the museal context
What is the in-between? Is there one or more? Where is it located? What significance does it have for exhibition work in the museal context? What changes and new possibilities can arise? And how can it be dealt with philosophically?
The phenomenon of the in-between opens up spaces and places in a wide variety of contexts. These are characterized by differences, challenges, tensions, rifts, transitions, possibilities, interfaces and seams. The dissertation project explores the potential, role and significance of different forms of the in-between for the future of exhibition work in the museal context. The aim of the dissertation project is to develop an analysis of this potential as part of a philosophical intervention and then, building on this, to present a draft exhibition concept that shows how the in-between can be applied in exhibition work.
The project is embedded in a professional and scientific context that has increasingly dealt with the following topics in recent years: with questions about the future of museums, the how-to and best practices; with critical positions in the museal context (such as feminist, postcolonial and libertarian); with contemporary, innovative, future-oriented and inclusive ways for exhibitions and museum work, as well as with the question of the in-between, which is repeatedly posed in various (philosophical and other) contexts.
Starting from a critical-phenomenological approach that describes and analyzes various relevant in-betweens, the dissertation relates these to various possible critical attitudes and perspectives on curating a museum exhibition. Using an intersectional feminist curatorial approach that combines several concrete practical approaches and elements of exhibition work, a draft exhibition concept will then be designed and presented. In this way, the examination of the phenomenon of the in-between, its potentials and a concrete possibility of implementation, inscribes itself into the debates and the future of exhibition work in the museum context as well as philosophical reflection.
Research Interests
- Feminist theories and practices
- Political philosophy
- Cultural and social philosophy
- Postcolonial theories
- Philosophy of aesthetics and art
- Exhibition theory and practice
- Museum Studies
Other
2024-2025 | p2i Online Course: Empowering researchers to innovate, Postdoc Academy, University of Cambridge
2020-2021 | Basic training for managers of volunteer-run public libraries in South Tyrol
Selected Publications and Conference Contributions
(2024) Instagram nutzen zum sharen*teilen von Forschungsarbeit und Museumsausstellungen – (wie) geht das?, Workshop, Art education colloquium “Sharing*Teilen”, University of Salzburg, 15.-17.11.2024
(2021) Vera Bianchi: Feministinnen in der Revolution. Die Gruppe Mujeres Libres im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, Rezension, in: Förderkreis Archive und Bibliotheken zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung e.V., Mitteilungen 59, Berlin.
(2017) Lieber GLEICHberechtigt als später!, Brochure for the traveling exhibition of the same name, Bolzano (together with Sandra Sordini)
Scholarships and Awards
Since 2025 | Doctoral scholarship of the University of Innsbruck
2019 | Winner of the GenderFemPrize 2019 for thesis work in the fields of gender studies and women’s studies at the University of Innsbruck for the master’s thesis: Gender order(s) in the field of tension between anarch_a_femin_ism. Insights into positions and debates in northern Italy in the 1980s
Contact
Doctoral College "Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalization"
Research Area "Cultural Encounters - Cultural Conflicts"