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Biography
Maria Thrän is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and teacher working with sound, materiality, and performance. Their work asks how bodies, voices, and non-human entities carry memory, care, and resistance — treating the voice as a sensor: a receiver that reads the world, registers what is felt but unspoken, and transmits embodied knowledge across bodies and difference. Through sculpture, voice, transmission, and ritual, and thinking alongside Raven Chacon's question: who gets amplified, who remains unheard, and whose presence is asked to adjust. For Maria, care is not a gesture of smoothing over — it is interference, a signal that interrupts and reorients.
Maria is interested in creating relational systems within installation — spaces for performers and audiences to inhabit together, where care as interference becomes a connective field that draws bodies into relation through the touch of vibration, and where this exchange transmits embodied knowledge across difference. Maria is currently pursuing their Ph.D at DXARTS; their work has been awarded, exhibited, and broadcast internationally in Berlin, Milan, Frankfurt, Marfa, and New York, and presented at the PSi and 4s Conference.
Research
Selected Research
Courses Taught
Sound, Rhythm, and the Political Language of Human and Non-Human Entities
University of Arts and Design, Offenbach am Main, Germany — May 2025
Collaboration with Samuel Hertz
A two-day collaborative workshop exploring sound as a political, ecological, and relational force across human and non-human worlds. Participants engaged with rhythm, memory, and technology (Arduino, solenoids, Max/MSP) to prototype sonic processes and reflect on how sound shapes shared space.