muSa michelle mattiuzzi is a performer, visual artist, writer and filmmaker based in Berlin. She works across a range of media and modalities – often with the body and voice – dealing with presence, physicality, and communication. Unspoken contracts, colonial violence, official archive, personal fictions, and plantation memories – these are a few of the elements that find their way into her work. How to perform an official archive is one way of talking about what I do, whether I am making a video, a performative text, analog photo, drawings, a sound work or a performance. Translation is the method I use to prepare for an encounter; it is not just a process of reformulating a message from one language into another. Translation is an intensive labor, context-dependent process, as well as a form of critical fabulation.
muSa michelle mattiuzzi is a performer, visual artist, writer and filmmaker based in Berlin. She works across a range of media and modalities – often with the body and voice – dealing with presence, physicality, and communication. Unspoken contracts, colonial violence, official archive, personal fictions, and plantation memories – these are a few of the elements that find their way into her work. How to perform an official archive is one way of talking about what I do, whether I am making a video, a performative text, analog photo, drawings, a sound work or a performance. Translation is the method I use to prepare for an encounter; it is not just a process of reformulating a message from one language into another. Translation is an intensive labor, context-dependent process, as well as a form of critical fabulation.