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Fabrizio Massini, MA
Fabrizio Massini
T: +43-1-4277-43857

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Fabrizio is a university assistant/PhD candidate at the University of Vienna and a performing arts practitioner. Based in China between 2009-2019, Fabrizio’s performance practice includes his activity as producer, curator and dramaturg. Between 2016-2019 Fabrizio served as Artistic Director at Ibsen International. He given guest lectures at institutions including the Danish National School of Performing Arts, University of Sydney, University of Oslo and University of Florence. He collaborated with several European and Chinese organizations including Beijing Fringe Festival, Beijing Theatre Olympics (2014), Guangzhou Dance Festival, Shanghai Dance Biennale (2019).

Research interests include: performance practices in the Chinese-speaking region; experimental and postdramatic performance; dance theatre (tanzteater) and dance dramaturgy; feminist and queer performance; documentary film and theatre; performance artivism (art+activism).

Winter term 2024
Winter term 2023
150116 UE Cultural Studies Research Methods in Chinese Studies - Interview as method in the Cultural Studies

Massini, F. (2023). “Conceptualizing Mǐngǎn: strategies and challenges to navigate ‘sensitive areas’ in the Xi Jinping era. Manuscript in preparation. In Feminist Activism in Post-2010 China NIAS Press.

Massini, F. (2023). "When" does "Chinese feminism" become "performance"?. Manuscript in preparation In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Performance Routledge, Taylor & Francis.






Massini, F., & Riccucci, E. (2007). Un’esperienza interculturale nella provincia di Firenze: la settimana dell’amicizia Italia-Cina. In Verso uno spazio multiculturale? : Riflessioni geografiche sull'esperienza migratoria (pp. 375-388). Pàtron Editore.

Matters of "sensitivity": feminism and performance practices in postmillennial China

Fabrizio Massini (Speaker)

4 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ibsen as a "medium": contemporary Norwegian playwrighting on the Chinese stage

Fabrizio Massini (Speaker)

25 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Feminism and artivism in post-millennial China: performance and "sensitivity"

Fabrizio Massini (Speaker)

3 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tides and Undercurrents: transnational encounters between Europe and East Asia

Fabrizio Massini (Speaker)

31 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-43857

fabrizio.massini@univie.ac.at