Nancy Mauro-Flude
Australia (residence), Australia, Canada (citizenship)
research interests: performance, performance reserach, dance, ethnography, Theories of Embodiment, art theory, Theory, Oceania, materiality, theory in performing, criticism, crossdisiplinary, anthropology, somatic methodologies, somatics, artistic research methods
affiliation: RMIT University
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Dr Marcia Nancy Mauro-Flude is a performance artist and theorist, whose research focuses on core questions relating to embodied cognition, machine learning, ecological systems theory and how stygian feminism can inform the holistic advancements of these fields. She leads the ‘Next Nature: Engineering Flora Fiction and Data Fauna’ studio, at the College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University. Represented by Bett Gallery, her work has been featured at: Transmediale; Ars Electronica, Museum of New and Old Art, Kunsthall Vienna, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, most recently was recently recognised as a finalist for the Tasmanian Women’s Art prize. Research Fellow at the Institute of Network Cultures. Founder of Desponias Coven, a feminist led web server, atelier and experiential pedagogy science fiction mothership. Nancy’s contributions comprise of art making, dancing, curating, somatic enquiry, nonfiction and scholarly writing.