Marianna CHRISTOFIDES

• TOP >
• Residency Program >
• Invited Creators >
• Marianna CHRISTOFIDES

Marianna CHRISTOFIDES

Participating Program	Exchange Residency Program (Creators from abroad)
Activity Based	Berlin
City	Tokyo
Period	2023.9-2023.11

Purpose of the residency

Growing from my interest in how abrupt and disastrous forces become a trigger for generative energy release, I will be looking diachronically and trans-disciplinarily into microforms of resilience, insular spirits of struggle and lone visionaries. What common denominator can volcanology, rituals pacifying mountain spirits, the birth of an island, a sea contaminated by mercury, poetry, women’s movements and farming on radioactive land as a lifelong form of protest share? In cinematic, sculptural, essayistic and performative ‘exercises’ I will continue observing expressions of fortitude in relation to long-lasting social and environmental ‘aftershocks’ following calamitous events that haunt times of supposed calm.

Plan during the residency

• Material and archival research, and conduction of interviews
• 16mm filming/ on-site field recordings
• Collaboration with scientists, activists, artists, and craftsmen
• Open studio/ artist talk
• Presentation of the fifth variation of the ongoing film lecture performance “exercises in becoming uncertain”

Creator Information