Mira Mann (DE, 1993)
Residency period: May-July 2026
Born in Germany, Mira Mann lives and works between Paris and Düsseldorf. Their multidisciplinary practice spans live performance, moving image, scenography, and objects, exploring questions of cultural hybridity, representation, memory, and the instrumentalization of canonized history. Through fictional spaces and storytelling, Mann visualizes social structures, collective memory, and new narratives within shifting identities. Their discursive scenographies probe transcultural relations between human and non-human agents, examining the “glitches” that emerge between experience and memory, reality and fiction.
Mann’s work has been presented internationally, including at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, FriArt (Fribourg), Serpentine (London), Brücke Museum (Berlin), among many others across Europe and Asia.
During their residency at La Becque, Mira Mann will research and translate Korean creation myths from a North Korean mountain region in collaboration with their mother, a Korean translator. These shamanic narratives, recounting the mythic origins of the universe, will be developed into a sonic interpretation in partnership with two musicians. By reconnecting with ancestral stories of human-animal-nature entanglement, the project reflects on geopolitical division – particularly the ongoing tensions on the Korean peninsula and their broader global resonances. The surrounding mountains and lake at La Becque will offer a resonant landscape for exploring the transcendental and symbolic scope of these myths.
Mira Mann, photo Elvo Axt