Marialena Marouda

Marialena Marouda is based in Brussels, Belgium. Her performance practice focuses on relational knowledges and their performances. She works with storytelling, voice and sound to create immersive sonic environments that summon encounters with more-than-humans. Her work develops over the long term and is research-based, taking place outside and beyond the black box, often developed in situ. As a member of The Oceanographies Institute, which she initiated in 2018, she currently studies human-ocean kinships. Marialena studied philosophy and visual arts at Columbia University in New York USA, and continued her studies at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany. She was a participant of the program for artistic research Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (a.pass) in Brussels. She works internationally, in collaboration with organizations such as KAAP, BUDA Kortrijk, wpZimmer, workspace Brussels, Q-O2, Hiros, Wandering Arts Biennial/nadine, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Sophiensaele Berlin and the Athens Biennial. In January 2022 she curated the symposium Songing with Our Ancestors: Hydrofeminisms in collaboration with VUB Crosstalks, Kaaitheater and Q-O2. As a dramaturg, she has been collaborating with choreographer Fabrice Mazliah on The Manufactured Series, a series of six duets, each between a human performer and an objet. As a writer and critic, she has written for the journals MASKA and Etcetera among others.

https://oceanographies.com/

www.poetryexercises.de

Marialena teaches in Installation/Performance (MA).

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