Mariana P. C. Dias

Mariana Pinto Coelho Dias (Lisboa, 1981) is a portuguese transdisciplinary artist, with artistic work in the field of sound art, experimental video, performance art, and audio-visual installation. Focused on sound studies, more specifically in the Acoustic Ecology, her work is prompted by the desire to contribute to balancing the weight between ‘sound images’ and ‘visual images’ in our perception of the world. Exploring the practices of videoperformance and soundscape composition, she is developing an artistic research project entitled “Anthropophony: listening to the soundscape of an ‘expanded (human) body’ through videoperformance practices”, which seeks the possibility of a consistent engagement between ‘visual’ and ‘sound images’ for the perception of an ‘expanded (human) body’. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon (FBA-UL), a research fellow from The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and a member of The Artistic Studies Reseach Center (CIEBA).