Fluid Materialities is a practice- and research-based field grounded in material processes, artistic research, and situated inquiry.
One of the field’s initial manifestations was a three-month international artist residency—conceived as an independent artistic research project, funded by the European Union and supported by the Goethe-Institut—hosted across multiple sites in Trier, Germany, including Palais Kesselstatt and Campus Gestaltung (KINDLAB) of the University of Applied Sciences Trier. It unfolded between studios, workshops, rivers, forests, and historical architectures, grounding the research in site-responsive and material practices.
The field is carried forward through the publication Fluid Materialities. Rather than documenting outcomes, the book carries the imprints of embodied research through artistic contributions, scores, choreographic notations, situated essays, visual-textual compositions, and conversations. Writers and curators were invited to resonate to the artists’ practices, responding through their own practices of thinking and making.
Contributions by
Sadrie Alves, Çağla Erdemir, Pujita Guha, Katharina Haupt, Martha Hincapié
Charry, Pepa Ivanova, Simon Maris, KUĆĆA, Gohar Martirosyan, Marie-Luise
Meister, Sabina Oroshi, Kate Ruck, Aliya Say
Editor Marie-Luise Meister
Editorial Design Ris Pascoe
Curatorial Editing (Artist–Writer Pairings) Sabina Oroshi
Production Management (Print & Distribution) Katharina Haupt
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Fluid Materialities
Book, 268 pages
Language: English
Softcover
Printed in Latvia by an FSC®-certified printer using environmentally responsible
production processes.
Price: € 35 (plus shipping)
Fluid Materialities was initiated, conceived, and carried by Marie-Luise Meister as an independent artistic research project developed in Trier, Germany.
Collaborators and Supporters
Katharina Haupt, Sabina Oroshi, KINDLAB Trier, Campus Gestaltung der Hochschule
Trier, Palais Kesselstatt, the Günther and Käthi Reh Foundation, the Ministry
for Family, Women, Culture and Integration of Rhineland-Palatinate (MFFKI),
and the St. Josephsstift.
