Jana Maria Dohmann - Weaving Social Texture

Weaving Social Texture

Jana Maria Dohmann

Weaving Social Texture is a collective research project that seeks to inspire interaction. Over the course of her show, the participatory installation will grow into a collective tissue of decisions, all of which are driven by individual, or mutually coordinated choices. A basic set up pre-installed by the artist serves as a point of departure for the collective, essentially improvised work.

Further reference is provided by a set of scores, that frame the action, adding a few fundamental guidelines. Everything else derives from the moment, from free decisions, acts and deeds – that is, from participatory typing, knotting, and interweaving. The explorative situation is supported by a fragmentary reference library, holding ready a subjective anthology of ecological, philosophical, and cultural knowledge. The resulting sculptural structure investigates the potential of collectivity and social negotiation – and thus raises a question on which the future of our planet depends.

About the artist

Credit: Anne Freitag

Jana Maria Dohmann is an independent artist and art mediator living and working in Berlin. Her intermedial practice hovers between performative research, somatic methodology and installation art. Based on poetic scores and experimental arrangements, her participatory sculptures explore issues of collectivity, collaboration, as well as the element of physical touch. Jana‘s work has been shown at Kunstverein Kärnten, Galerie KUB, Leipzig and the Somatic Academy, Berlin. As part of her collaborative practice, she has worked as a performer for Tino Sehgal at the Volksbühne Berlin and Albertinum in Dresden. Her solo show “PAYBACK” is currently on show at Galerie Sindelfingen. She developed a format for performative art mediation for documenta14, has worked with the Boros collection and is presently attending the MA program “Cultures of the Curatorial” at HGB Leipzig.