Mariechen Danz
Born in Dublin, 1980 and lives in Berlin, Germany
The human body is at the center of Mariechen Danz’s practice, which utilizes sculpture, drawing, costume design, and performances, among others, to consider the transmission of knowledge. By considering the legibility and hierarchy of signs, Danz merges Mesoamerican glyphs and modern manufactured materials such as incised metal plates that resemble computer motherboards. Her work attempts to heighten the worth of subjectivity in discourse, and acknowledge that even technology is an emotional economy. Even value systems have become sentimental in the ways fertility totems and amulets of the ancients held personal and ceremonial value. Her performances summon science-fiction, cult ritual, the gendered body and the ways in which language has the ability to be simultaneously expressive and incapable of immediate translation.
