Campus #7 Workshop directors

Melmun Bajarchuu moves at the borders of art, theory and politics as a thinker and discourse partner and takes on diverse roles in collaborative artistic processes, including critical companion, curator and production manager. She is driven by the desire for diversity in artistic expression and the questioning of existing structures and associated power relations and exclusion mechanisms. She is particularly interested in the interweaving of theories and practices in the context of post-structuralist, post- and decolonial, and queerfeminist issues. She is involved in the Initiative for Solidarity in Theatre and with the produktionsbande for intersectional perspectives and fairer working conditions in the performing arts. Since 2020, she has been a peer-to-peer consultant in the field of anti-discrimination at the Performing Arts Program Berlin (PAP).

Priscilla Brasil is a Brazilian filmmaker and producer. Her work is influenced by Werner Herzog, the Cohen brothers and the Dardene brothers. She has directed numerous award-winning documentaries and feature films. Since 2010 she dedicated herself mainly to audio projects, shooting video clips for many Brazilian bands and artists*.

Patrick Thomas works as a filmmaker and media artist. He studied media art and sculpture in Munich, Lisbon and Leipzig. In 2019 he was invited to a postgraduate research fellowship at the University of São Paulo in Brazil to research the topic of cultural resistance in Brazilian cinema and cineclubs.

His artistic practice and involvement include video stage design and curatorial projects in the visual arts as well as in theater. As a media education facilitator for film and video, he works with children and young people in various contexts, including for Gato Aleatório in Portugal and for Fahrender Raum in Munich. He is the founder of the experimental film lab MOVIMENTO and the artist network THE RANDOM COLLECTIVE.

Patti Shaughnessy is a Canadian-based director, performer, curator and artistic producer. She is a graduate of the Acting Program at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto and an alumna of the Native Studies Program at Trent University in Peterborough, ON.
Since 2012, Patti has worked as a teacher and director with the National Theatre of Greenland, where she studied with Makka Kleist. In Canada, Patti directed Kisaageetin (I love you, j’taime), a retrospective of Tomson Highway’s compositions and plays at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and the world premiere of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Cottagers and Indians at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. Patti is pleased to be stepping in as director for Waawaate’s Fobister’s play OMOGAAMAAN, which will be performed at the “Water, Earth, and I” Festival.
She is the co-founder of the O’Kaadenigan Wiingashk Collective, a multidisciplinary arts collective that has produced and presented several Indigenous art projects.
Patti is Anishnaabe (Ojibway) from the Curve Lake First Nation and a descendant of Irish immigrants who settled in the Peterborough region around 1823.

Mathias Reitz Zausinger works as a filmmaker and video artist. He studied philosophy with a focus on postcolonialism and the history of ideas in the early modern period, as well as visual arts in Berlin and Munich. Starting from a critique of the political dimension of imaginative spaces, his films and installations are interested in the persuasive power of narratives and images written in moments of political and ideological transformation. The documentary scenes and reenactments focus on the aesthetic diversity of voice and spoken language. Since 2019, together with Patrick Thomas, the cinema debut “BOALÂNDIA”, a documentary about contemporary forms of cultural resistance in Brazil and about a young generation of artists* and activists who give themselves a voice and write their own history with the means of film, is being created.