MARIANNE HOFFMEISTER
GENERAL INFO
- LOCATION
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Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid
- DATE
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Fall 2020
- TYPOLOGY
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WRITING RESIDENCY — PIMOA CTHULHU
- ARTIST
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Marianne Hoffmeister Castro - Chile
- CONTRIBUTOR
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This is Jackalope
ABOUT
The First Tentacular Writing residency was based on the idea of tentacular frameworks, of imaginaries that connect and relate the different inhabitants of this or other worlds and their environments. Through the resource of writing new images of desirable worlds can be projected, attending to, cultivating and caring for the relationships between their agents, both human and non-human, and their ecosystems. We invited artists to create a written work of indefinite length and open genre with which to generate narratives on the margins and from which to imagine new ways of understanding (post)nature and our place in it.
GHOSTLY ECOLOGIES
Marianne Hoffmeister was the selected artist in residency, who developed her project “Ghostly Ecology”. Her writings and drawing were published in This is Jackalope #3 publication. Her essay is a speculative and narrative piece rooted on the concept of the phantasmatic -ghostliness or spectrality- to suggest that there are other ways of being that dwell on the limits of understanding, outside the limits of our own subjectivity. In the experimental essay, spectrality operates as a metaphorical tool to embrace a world that is made of oblique perceptions, disorientations and hiddenness.
Spectral Futures, Drawing by Marianne Hoffmeister
