Clouded in Veins

Breaking down hegemonic orders of knowledge Mariechen Danz's (b. 1980 in Dublin, lives in Berlin) work takes communication and knowledge transfer as its point of departure, placing the body at the center of her process-based artistic practice. With her sculptures, drawings, costumes and installations, which she activates in the course of performances, she investigates the possibilities and limits of language, the legibility of signs and their hierarchical systems. Again and again, Danz's artistic discourse revolves around the subjectivity of all human understanding. Empathy and curiosity take the place of one-dimensional explanatory models. With decolonial approaches, Danz shakes up Eurocentric historical images and hegemonic values and offers a new kind of alternative knowledge transfer - and the joy of improvisation. The catalog Clouded in Veins documents Danz's expansive solo exhibition as part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2021 at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. With texts by Malte Roloff, Angelika Stepken, and Susanne Witzgall. Dismantling Hegemonic Orders of Knowledge Mariechen Danz's (b. Dublin, 1980; lives in Berlin) work takes communication and the transfer of knowledge as its point of departure and places the human body at the center of her process-based artistic practice. In sculptures, drawings, costumes, and installations, which she activates in performances, she probes the potentials and limitations of language, the legibility of signifiers and their hierarchical systems. Danz's artistic discourse insistently encircles the subjectivity of all human understanding, replacing one-dimensional explanatory models with empathy and curiosity. Decolonial approaches let Danz unsettle Eurocentric conceptions of history and hegemonic ideas of value and propose an alternative form of the dissemination of knowledge-and the pleasure of improvisation. The catalogue Clouded in Veins documents Danz's sprawling.