Marianna Maruyama ~ Keywords: love, labor, translation

Marianna Maruyama is an artist and writer living in The Hague. She works with performance, sound, sculpture, and writing. Her productions, which are often conceptually grounded, cultivate interconnection and entanglement through broad topics including translation, heritage, ecology, and love. She is also deeply interested in Rome and its insect life. She has led and contributed to many research projects and collaborations, often concentrated in The Netherlands, Italy and Lithuania. She collaborates with historians, curators, restorers, composers, data scientists, entomologists, and botanists, among others.

Her work has been performed and exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), documenta14 Parliament of Bodies, Kassel (DE), Manifesta 11, Zurich (CH), The Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL), IMPAKT festival, Utrecht (NL) and CAC Vilnius (LT). Selected publications include: Performing Security (The Fifth Season, 2019); Translation as Method (Kunstlicht, 2017), Three Movements (Casco/DAI, 2013), Farocki’s Living Room (Harun Farocki Institut, 2018). Since 2016, she has been active as an artist-researcher at the invitation of the Sedje Hémon Foundation in The Hague.