Things They Don't In Florida Ep. 2 - Clara Amaral

Things They Don't In Florida is a project initiated by Mårten Spångberg in collaboration with Crimson Coast Dance addressing relations between dance/performance and contemporary technology. The project's overlapping dynamics consist next to this series of conversations with artists, thinkers, activists and others, of both reflective and fiction writing and an audio-visual browser-based experience.

Clara Amaral is an artist working with text and performance. Her artistic practice is situated in an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing modes of reading and writing. Central to her practice is the investigation of innovative publishing modalities and the performative aspect of writing and language through an intersectional feminist approach. In January 2020 Clara initiated misted.cc. Misted.cc is an online platform: A book of sorts. Every month an artist, writer, graphic designer or curator, who uses writing in their artistic practice, contributes a text. Throughout the month the contribution vanishes in direct relation to the number of visitors, leaving, eventually, an empty website until the next contribution is published.

Clara’s work She gave it to me I got it from her was published by Kunstverein Amsterdam in 2021. This volume is part of a broader research on publishing modalities and their relation to performative practices. Driven by explorations of “hand choreography”, the volume reveals personal narratives that expand into a political dimension while also focusing on the legal expression of identity and how we exist in the world.

Things They Don't In Florida is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts and HKF.