Marian (mau) Schoettle is a transdisciplinary project artist who animates material culture—its presence, meaning, and capacity.  mau reimagines humble artifacts like clothing, textiles, tools, shelters, and installations and propels them into the liminal space that exists between the literal and the poetic. The work explores states of environmental and psychological flux and instability while seeking orientation, communality,  and agency.   mau conflates incongruous and disparate elements in order to catalyze new pathways of understanding.

COLLABORATIONS AND DIVERSE PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS

2020 – 2023  transfer_translate_decipher   intermodal communication

2020 – present   mML_dRiFt   eco-feminist  collective mau schoettle, Mary Abma, Lisa Jacobson

2022   Mumble and Murmur  installation of textile cyanotype, silk panels, found objects, gift giving with chickens. in  Residency,  Islote, Puerto Rico

2022  Pressure Drop, video. Artscape, Toronto   https://vimeo.com/679355071

2021   the Hyper Object,  Port City Projects.  installation in cramped abandoned mining office – domesticating the hyper object, quarrying the earth beneath our feet.  Residency, Manship Art Foundation Gloucester. Port City Projects.  

2019  Compression, Port City Projects.  speculative public engagement project conflating leisure, migration, and disaster preparedness. Cargo debris bag, paddles, reactive beach tarp, sandbags, and fishing poles jury rigged on a concrete city plaza. Collaborative public storytelling, open process. Nuit Blanche, Residency Artscape, North Sugar Beach Plaza, Toronto, Canada. https://vimeo.com/674606664      https://vimeo.com/674197786      https://vimeo.com/679352300  

2018  DECALEZ,  Port City Projects.   open process public engagement project about placemaking and departures, mapping, mending, and storytelling.  Blackened globe, ropes and pulleys, tarps, stories, diagrams, and reassembled garments were hoisted, sewn, and annotated in an open storefront. Residency Dos Mares, Marseille, France.                      

2018 New Love,  theater and performance collaboration on stories of contemporary western queer desire with Tony Whitfield+.  Spinning enormous kitchen table, 7 performers, mutable clothing, projected images of flooding and sound. (costume, soft props, audience engagement)  La MaMa Theater & Howl Gallery, NYC. https://vimeo.com/292571838

2018 In My Mind We Are Always Naked, participatory gallery performance of New Love with Tony Whitfield + – we are dressed with our desires and fears. Howl Gallery, NYC. https://vimeo.com/308698184

2014 Clouet Gardens Project,  Port City Projects.  open process public project in the Clouet Gardens – an occupation of unorganized territory in a conflict zone of disputed entitlement. Bureaucratic file cases, parachutes, a surveillance beacon, a swing and telephone dangling from the old oak tree, a steering wheel, a train whistle, tents and the full text of the lawsuit against 94 Oil and Gas Companies.  The Fringe Festival, New Orleans https://www.clouetgardensproject.org

2013 The Mine Project / DaDa SPILL,  Port City Projects.  a massive security breach is played out with our unwitting complicity in a participatory crowd project within an abandoned cement mine. An absurdist cavern of bureaucracy including paperwork, customer service, flashlights, interpretive guides and a phisherman. Data storage is transposed as new geological strata in this dark-humored crowd project with collaborator Kate Hamilton, 28 volunteers, 300 participants. The Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale, NY   https://www.themineproject-dadaspill.net

2010 The White Garden Watermill International Summer Program, with Robert Wilson and Andre Bartenev. Residency Watermill.

2009 Refractions, costumes, Clyde Forth Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC https://vimeo.com/13238820
A la Pintura, costumes, Clyde Forth Dance Theater, La Roulette, NYC https://vimeo.com/13372016

2010 – 2018 POST INDUSTRIAL FOLK WEAR PROJECTS  Clothing as a catalyst for urban disruption and engagement on the sidewalks of Berlin, in a Chashama Storefront NYC, and Conflux Psychogeography Festival in Brooklyn.

2011 -2023 gift giving – mau engages with interpersonal and interspecies gift giving at the Women’s March NYC, Millions March NYC, Climate March NYC, Occupy NYC,  with chickens, in the woods, on the street.

1992 – 1998 TROPIST FOUNDATION, Amsterdam, NL, Dutch artist collective.
The Riddle in the Old Church – 1996 interactive phosphorescent light/sound/object installation in a medieval church, Ouderkerk, Amsterdam, NL.
The Messenger/ Hermit II – The Mess Age 1995 installation with transistor radios, parabolic dishes, and spinning camera obscuras –  exploring perception, memory objects, erasure of time  Residency Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic.

PRESENTATION – CLOTHING, OBJECT,  GALLERY INSTALLATION (SELECT)

2000 – 2023  Smithsonian, Philadelphia, Bellevue, Milwaukee Museum Craft Shows  
2014 States of Security Clothing and hybrid tools, KMOCA Kingston, NY
2014 GROUNDSWELL, sound/object site installation, Olana & Wave Farm, Hudson.
2011 The Arab Spring, paper cutouts, The Shirt Factory Kingston NY
2011 In Situ, material culture, KMOCA Kingston NY
2010 STORM/Structure: Dress Cartography Series NYC, London, Paris, Amsterdam
2001 Blue Dress/ Form and Feel, 10 cyanotype dresses. Julie: Artisans’ Gallery, NYC
1999 Circles and Squares: Folded and Punched, clothing, Bernard Toale, Boston
1998 Flow Visualization, clothing, Julie: Artisan’s Gallery, NYC
1998 Fishing in Muddy Water, clothing, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
1996 Night Walk 11 photographic dresses. Galerie MARZEE, Amersfoort,
1993 Kinderspel, installation,  solo exhibition Signalement. The Textile Museum of the Netherlands, Tilburg
1992 The Dilated Eye, sound/light/object installation, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
1986 Private Thoughts/Public Speaking, with Fran Cotter, Battersea Art Center Gallery, London.                               1983 – 2013 Julie: Artisan’s Gallery, yearly exhibitions NYC

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS  (University)
1984 – 1995  Art and Design Academies: Gerrit Reitveld in Amsterdam, The Royal College of Art in the Hague, University of Art and Design in Tilburg, NL,  and the University of Wales in Newport – ‘Art as a Form of Social Intervention’.

mau – clothing studio – limited edition and one of a kind clothing 1980-2022 . Founded on the conviction that clothing can be a form of social intervention.   REPRESENTED by Julie: Artisan’s Gallery NYC 1983-2013. Award winning garments  sold at craft/art festivals,  internationally at Takashimaya, Tomorrowland, Felissimo, Bendels, boutiques and museum stores.

PUBLIC Art COLLECTIONS  – Philadelphia Art Museum,  Textile Museum NL,  Municipal Museum in the Hague, Art in Embassy Program in Geneva and Baku.

PUBLIC Design/Costume COLLECTIONS – Victoria and Albert Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Textile Museum of The Netherlands,  Municipal Museum in The Hague,  Museum of Rhode Island School of Design.

GROUP MUSEUM SHOWS –  2019 Off the Wall: American Art to Wear, Julie Dale Schaffer’s Collection at Philadelphia Museum of Art,  Benno Premsela’s Collection at Stedelijk Museum,   Art – Fashion and Anti-Fashion at deYoung Museum, San Fransisco, and multiple showings at the The Dutch Textile, The Hague Municipal, Victoria and Albert,  Philadelphia Art Museum, Wraclow Architecture Museum, Bayreath Museum of Art, Helsinki Art, Dorsky, New York State, Noyes, and others.

+Domestic Matters: The Uncommon Apron, Peters Valley School of Craft (2019),  Bojagi International Festival, reinterpretation of traditional textile tradition, Seoul, S. Korea (2018), Helen Drutt in Philadelphia, SPOT Poland,  Dieu Donne  in NYC,  James Birch Fine Art in London , Suzanne Biederberg in Amsterdam, Gallery Marzee in Amersfort,  Les Angles at Avignon Festival,  and many others and numerous collaborations with dancers and performance artists.

CURATORIAL –  Conceptual Clothing, Great Britain 12 venue touring exhibition curated in collaboration with Fran Cottell. 23 visual and performing artists, hosted by IKON Gallery.  1986-88.

GRANTS & SUBSIDIES  –  Artscape Toronto, Haystack Open Studio Residency, Robert Wilson & Watermill Foundation, Women’s Studio Workshop (with Kate Hamilton), CHASHAMA NYC,  Mondrian Funds (with Tropists), Amsterdam Art Funds, The Dutch Government, British Arts Council (with Fran Cottell),  New York Foundation for the Arts in craft and art.

AWARDS  of Excellence and Innovation –  Smithsonian Museum, James Renwick Alliance,  Bellevue Art Museum, American Craft Council.  Awards for Excellence in Design for the Future from Felissimo NYC,  I.D. Magazine, Metropolis Magazine.

COMMUNITY
The Free Cafe, People’s Place Community Cafe, Kingston NY
The Climate Reality Project – leadership corps training certificate
Mutual Aid Society, free food and clothing initiatives, Kingston NY                                                                                Public Access Television Program 1999 – 2002 , produced and directed community hour long weekly program, Esopus Library, NY

STUDIO RESIDENCE
1995 Esopus, NY, 1995-89 Amsterdam, 1989-85 Paris, 1985-83 London, 1983-80 Philadelphia and NYC

mau
marian schoettle
845.340-1280
projects. objects. clothing.
https//marianschoettle.com