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Marie Theresa Crick is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher, and facilitator whose work engages with transnational feminisms, embodied methodologies, and breath as ‘performance.’ She is a PhD researcher in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, a fellow of the Advanced Practices PhD, and an active member of collectives including Counterfield and the Feminist Breath Collective. Her practice investigates the intersections of Irish Catholic maternal shame, migration, and memory through philosophy, film, performance, and embodied workshops to reimagine maternal relations as transformative.

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Philosophically grounded in Luce Irigaray’s concept of “shared air,” Marie Theresa’s research examines breath as a medium for relational exchange, addressing how transgenerational shame is embodied and transmitted through the maternal relation. Her lived experience of her mother’s dementia, shaped by migration and Irish Catholicism in London, informs her exploration of silences, bodily traces, and inherited trauma. Contextualised within colonial histories and state control over female bodies, her practice emphasizes the urgency of addressing “histories that hurt” (Ahmed) and the affective legacies of shame.

Marie Theresa’s embodied practice explores breath as a relational and transformative medium across “private,” “public,” “filmic,” and “communal” air. Her practice includes intimate shared readings with her mother, public scripted performances at sites of the Virgin Mary, and durational embodied workshops.

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As part of Counterfield she has co-facilitated one workshop with Daphna Westerman and Jiaying Gao as part of series five: Activating Indeterminate Encounters and another ‘Feminine-to-come’, and the Poetics of Filmic Breath with researcher Sara Simić. Marie Theresa’s embodied research and movement workshops have taken place in the Ocean as Archive module on the MA in Contemporary Art Theory, BA Feminist and Queer Technoscience Module and Graduate Diploma Workshop LAB - Histories of Art Module.

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Marie Theresa has over eighteen years of experience in creative spaces, predominantly in education, including schools in Surrey and London and Whitechapel Gallery, Zoo Art Fair and Sebastian and Barquet. She has activated ‘Thinking With’ online spaces to collectively think with different art spaces, such as Manifesta 14, documenta 15 and many others. She also takes part in spaces such as the Birkbeck London Critical Theory Summer School, Architectural Summer Schools, School of Materialist Research ('The Feminine in an Age of Anthropological Transformation') and Birkbeck Guilt Group. Her film Indeterminate Transmissions - Hydro-Feminine was screened at the opening of Choreo Archive – re-making your archive at SKEWED Gallery, and has also been part of a group exhibition Fragments at the University of Kent and group publications, Market Tales a Geopolyphony and Counterfield II. 

 

https://www.mtcdigitalcreative.co.uk/

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