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Marie Lynn Speckert aka MDura born 1989 in Hanover / Germany is a contemporary media+bio artist, composer and sculptor. Her artistic work combines anatomic structures, medical tools, sounds with performance and sculptures and employs them to create atmospheric scenes. By utilizing sculptural elements, innovative sound microcosms and delicately balanced actions, she shows complex sensory impressions to reveal their emergent and interpretive possibilities. Her creations often have a strong, yet fictional connection to medicine. They refer to processes, changes and mortality.
The presentations of her works convey an artificiality, as they are emphasized in a different context and are reminiscent of dream worlds or scenarios. The production process is also an important aspect of the presentation. The material language primarily uses metaphorical processes as well as inherent transformational qualities.
In her music she works with samples of anatomical body sounds, organ communication, tension and work processes for creating sound landscapes. She also uses conventional instruments like violoncello, harp, idiophones, brass and particularly steel percussions.
2015-2017 master course, sculpture with Prof. Wilhelm Mundt / Prof. Carsten Nicolai, HfBK Dresden (DEU)
2015 diploma with honors sculpture/metal with Prof. Andrea Zaumseil, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/Saale (DEU)
2013 erasmus Scholarship Prof. Johan Muyle, La Cambre École d´Art, Brussel/Belgium (BEL)
Active as a soundperformer and composer with pseudonym „Alphabeton“ and „DURA“
works and lives in Leipzig/Berlin (DEU)
Member of research groups: Tangible Music Lab (www.tamlab.ufg.at) and Fasica Leipzig (www.fascia-leipzig.com).
Scholarships I Price
2020 EHF Artist Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation
2019 Nosedive, working scholarship, Art Foundation Sachsen-Anhalt and Kloster Bergeschen Foundaiton
2018 Anomalie, graduated scholarship, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle Saale
2017 Local Particiants Program, working scholarship 2017, PILOTENKÜCHE, Leipzig
2015 Art price, recognition, Sparkassenstiftung, Sachsen Anhalt
Vinje Snoforming, 1. Place, Norway
Publications
2023
School of X, xCoAx, Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2022
Superpresent Magazine Vol. 3 No. 1
2017
Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reaction and plastination in whole body slices. A novel technique to identify fascial tissue structures, Dr. habil. Hanno Steinke
Congresses
2023
NEW NOW Festival, zeche zollverein, Essen
xCoAx 2023, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Bauhaus University Weimar
Compositions I Projects
2022 SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Microtec, Bozen
2022 SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Radialsystem, Berlin
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte Präsentieren: Olicía trifft MDURA, GEH8 Kunstraum, Dresden
2021 142 m/s, Goethe-Institut, Amman Jordan
2020 POSTHUMAN ISLAND, Sound design, Felt zine x Cultural Policy
It Will Have Been. A New Futurist Manifesto, Stefan Hurtig
Chaosmosis, crosslucid, o2o2facewear
2019 E-Sound of Silence, zeitraumexit, Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim
Come as you are, Mara Sandrock, INTER disciplinary Shop, Spinnerei Leipzig
2017 XIANG TANG and YIWEN SHAO, Music for Crosslucid, London/Berlin
2012 geSchichten aus der Heimat, Antonia Ravens, Trossingen
Fliegende Füchse auf der Suchenach Liebe, Sabrina Lewe
2011 Sight of Transgression, Sywana Zybora
Performances
2022 SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Radialsystem, Berlin
2021 Unmeasurement Straßenunterhaltungsdienst, Plus ou moins cirque productions, Revier Südost, Berlin
2012 geSchichten aus der Heimat, Antonia Ravens, Trossingen
Solo exhibitions (section)
2023
57106g WEIGHT OF SOUL, Paul Scherzer Gallery, Halle
2022
W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Werkleitz, Halle Saale (DE)
2018
Vector/Traeger mit Emma Wilson, Frappant e.V., Hamburg
2017
Response, mit Tobias Gellscheid, Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin
2016
chapter 1A, Galerie nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
Widerhall, mit Tobias Gellscheid, Eisfabrik – Weiße Halle, Hannover
2015
Auslöser, Turnhalle Volkspark, Halle Saale
Rauschen mit Tobias Gellscheid, Galerie Zaglmaier, Halle Saale
Holzstich und Bildhauerei mit Tobias Gellscheid, Töplitz, Potsdam
Groupexhibitions (selected work)
2022
aller beute spuren, Hal - Studio Galerie, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
CARING FUTURES ART EXHIBITION, Sølvberget Galleri, Norway
W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Bæjarhátíð í Búðardal,Iceland
W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Sim-biotic, Venice Arsenale, Capannone 106 (ITA)
XX. Jubiläum - Mediziner&Malerei, University Leipzig
2021
ignorance&honesty, GIEGLING, Walzwerk doing Art Basel, Basel
ignorance&honesty, GIEGLING, Pittlerwerk, Leipzig
EIN IMPULS, jungekunstfreunde x STRÖER, Köln
2020
Verwandelt, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
me IRL, curated by Melissa Huang, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott, Georgia, USA
Quarantine Exhibition, space52, Athens, Greece
scholarship exhibition, Fresh A.I.R., Projektraum Urban Nation, Berlin
BREAK OUT: Series 2, LA Art Documents, Los Angeles, USA
[SHIFT:ibpcpa] The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts, curated by Ayshia Taskin,
The Wall Space Gallery, Scotland, UK
2019
Shades Of Black, storpunkt gallery, Munich
Gegen Die Schwerkraft, Giegling at Funkhaus, Berlin
Ideenwerkstatt, fenced in area, DA-Kunsthaus, Hörstel
2018
Arsenal, Spinnerei Intershop interdisciplinaire, Leipzig
Right Here, Right Now, Spinnerei UNTERGESCHOSS 14, Leipzig
II III X #01, Galerie nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
2017
MEISTER 17, Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden
Ding und Wesen, Galerie BRIDGET STERN im Künstlerhaus FAKTOR, Hamburg
Unterwelten, Zaglmaier Galerie, Halle Saale
Full Stop, PILOTENKÜCHE, Leipzig
Masterclass – Cold Turkey, KIII Galerie, Hannover
Metamorphosis. The Human Stories, Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden
2016
Just Physical Stand 10.8, Westwerk, Leipzig
Performance Night 2016, Prima Kunst, Kiel
artig Kunstpreis 2016, Galerie Kunstreich, Kempten (Allgäu)
PROVOKATEURE, størpunkt Galerie, München
2015
maniac – Kunst im Kontext von Psyche, Wahn und Besessenheit, reflektor Kunstpreis 2015, Wien
Die Zeit drängt, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
in Jail - TAG DER OFFENEN TÜR, ehemaliges Gefängnis, Meißen
Aufbrechen, Sparkassen Kunstpreis 2015, Volkspark, Halle Saale
2014
Ich seh´was, was du jetzt siehst., areal17, Halle Saale
Invasion, art-jams, e-werk, Freiburg
Nebenan, altonale, Hamburg