Mariana Martins

textiel , Taal , schrijven , performance , Literair , Experimenteel , collage

Mariana is an artist working at the intersection of experimental writing , collage and performance . She makes use of fabric, paper, and found materials that she weaves together into new narratives. The outcomes often reveal a concern for the absurdity of ordinary life and how violent efficiency, productivity, and functionality for the sake of profit are valued over human connection or connection to nature.

More information at mardrew.art/about

when a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls
when a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls - Find more at mardrew.art/work/when-a-crocodile-eats-the-sun-everything-falls
When a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls
when a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls - Find more at mardrew.art/work/when-a-crocodile-eats-the-sun-everything-falls
when a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls
when a crocodile eats the sun, everything falls - Find more at mardrew.art/work/when-a-crocodile-eats-the-sun-everything-falls
79A - A book, performance and installation about bodies under real estate
79A - A book, performance and installation about bodies under real estate - In July 2024 in the Netherlands, a new law (the Affordable Rent Act), made it so that renting was no longer as profitable for landlords. Many houses started being sold amid the already serious housing crisis. I was made to leave the house at 79A. Our landlord was a company.

Before leaving I collected the following samples into small plastic bags: the door number, floor, ceiling, brick dust, terrace gravel, bedroom wall damp, toilet mesh, rain water, washing machine inlet pipe, the stairs handrail, anti-slip stairs tread, ... Alienated from their origin, these samples are now traces of certain rhythms in the house, memories or bridges to a place that lives in our imaginary.

In the book I investigate the effects of the real estate market on the body alongside a visual archival of the samples. The body here understood not only as our own bodies but also as the body of the house.

Find more at mardrew.art/work/79a
tenho o luxo de escrever poesia todo o dia
tenho o luxo de escrever poesia todo o dia - is an experimental writing project in Portuguese in which I tear up the words I once put into my poems and observe their transformations. I research and explore different methods of ripping text apart and stitching it back together. These explorations include: writing an absurd amount of footnotes, cutting out paragraphs, words, sentences, and syllables, reordering them using different methods, blacking out text, or recycling words from previous poems.

Find more at mardrew.art/work/tenho-o-luxo-de-escrever-poesia-todo-o-dia

Spoken Word Night

Datum:
Locatie: New Grounds
In samenwerking met: The Writer's Guide to the Galaxy

A performance investigating the effects of the real estate market on the body alongside a visual archival of house samples.

https://www.thewritersguide.nl/event/spoken-word-night-2/
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