Sara Manente

Practicable - BUDA Art Center

March 2024

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Sara Manente. Venice, 1978

Sara Manente studied dance and semiotics before moving to Brussels, where she works as an artist and researcher.

Drawing on the imagery and matter of living cultures and mycelium brought into relation with live arts, her more recent projects reflect on the possibility of contamination between pedagogy, research, performance and publication resulting in a variety of formats: from the choreographic and sculptural work of MOLD, in which organic and inorganic materials perform together a larger idea of bodies, to the editorial and curatorial practice of ROT, magazines and Gardens. In 21-22, she’s been organizing Technologie des champignons an open school with mycelium in collaboration with Far° Nyon. This year, together with Sébastien Tripod and Deborah Robbiano, she is working on RUINED, a mycological building and degrading process that iterates in different architectures.

The situations she promotes are highly collaborative. In 2019 she receives a research grant from the Flemish Authorities for Wicked technology/Wild fermentation: “by linking practices of fermentation, feminism and artistic research, I am interested in putting together techniques that transform thought, perception and doing (of togetherness) in live cultures and live arts.”

She was artist in residence at Wiels in 2021. She has been part of a.pass since 2008, as participant in the postmaster programme and Research Center as well as curator and dedicated mentor. She taught at KASK, ISAC, ZUYD, DOCH, ZHDK and EXERCE.

From 2012 to 2019, she has been collaborating with Marcos Simoes for the performances and workshops: This place, x: I liked B better/ y: I am 29 too, Tele Visions and Lava. She has been working with and performing for Juan Dominguez, Kate McIntosh, Aitana Cordero Vico, Jaime Llopis, Nada Gambier, Gaëtan Bulourde, Andrea Maurer, Begüm Erciyas and Beatrice Balcou.