Mariana Aboim
Mariana Aboim is an artist and PhD researcher at the Royal College of Art, London. She tutors on the (de)Fine Art and in the autonomous practices at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam. Mariana's practice-led research builds on the ways the endurance of white cisheteropatriarchy manifests itself on the body. Mariana uses a recorded [spoken] word to exercise speculative non-fiction as genre, articulating what she calls 'material intangibilities' to challenge the tendentious ways in which the corroborability of experiences is still dominated by western centered frameworks. Mariana conducts her investigation through an assemblic production of moving and still image, deploying methods that allow working with the viscerality of affect on practice-based approaches to what it can mean to draw theories with fine art [rather than about fine art]. Mariana further proposes how exploring nonconscious semiotic affective processes through 'practice' reveals paths towards absent non-hetero futurities being materialized in the present.