Marie-Anne Mancio, Biography
Marie-Anne Mancio is a multi-folio practitioner who trained as an artist in performative practice at Manchester Metropolitan University prior to undertaking her D.Phil Maps for Wayward Performers: feminist readings of contemporary live art practice in Britain, University of Sussex, and a subsequent M.Phil in Creative Writing at Glasgow University for which she was awarded a Distinction.
Her fiction deploys historic metaphor to comment on the present and explore the impact of site on identities, latterly through Whorticulture (forthcoming) a novel about four migrant women in nineteenth century America. She is represented by Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates
A Diffusion residency with creative think-tank Proboscis inaugurated their bookleteer publications for which she created An A-Z of The Ting: Theatre of Mistakes comprising 16 ebooks with documents (texts, letters, photographs, diagrams, artworks) drawn from this 1970s performance collective’s private archive and from original research conducted by herself and Jason E Bowman. Prior to this she was also a contributor to Aleksandra Mir’s How Not To Cook; Peter Stickland’s Mairi’s Wedding by Andrew Hendry; and was commissioned by Demos to take part in their research enquiry Glasgow 2020, a project for the mass imagination from which she wrote, “She Wore Blue Velveteen,” published in The Dreaming City.
Marie-Anne is currently in residence at New Work Network as Archive Correspondent where she will be Telling Tales from the Archive.
Marie-Anne is also a freelance lecturer in critical theory and art history and has written for many publications including Live Art Magazine, Make, Art and Design, RealTime, Europaconcorsi, and The Independent on Sunday, as well as delivering research papers for conferences.
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