I am a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. I make performative worlds in which image and sound are the driving forces. Working with sound reflects my desire to be faced with highly subjective, confrontational, and immersive forms of reality. In my practice, I scrutinize the human body as a material object in order to dissect social constructions, as I wish to grasp their absurdity and humor. Death and nothingness form the underlying motives of my work. Alongside my individual practice, I work as a collective with my brother Manuel Groothuysen.
Diane Mahín
b. 1993 Maastricht, Netherlands | +31(0)625190654 | info@dianemahin.com
1032 JX Amsterdam | www.dianemahin.com
Education
2022 Sandberg Institute - MFA re:master Opera
2020 Maastricht, Institute of Performative Arts - MA Theatre
2019 Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) - MA Visual Sociology (distinction)
2017 University of the Arts Utrecht - Preparatory Course Fine Art
2017 Utrecht University - BSc Sociology
2017 Utrecht University - BA Liberal Arts and Sciences
2016 University of California Santa Barbara (USA) - Exchange (art/philosophy/history)
2013 Utrecht University – Minor Media en Culture
Exhibitions and performances
09.2023 Director: GUT 5, Zaal 3, The Hague
06.2023 Director + Performer: trying to get cozy in the dark dark void, co-created with Manuel Groothuysen, ENTER Amsterdam
04.2023 Director: GUT 5, Rewire (Proximity Music), Trixie, The Hague
03.2023 Director: GUT 5, Club Huis, Het Huis, Utrecht
01.2023 Director: GUT 5, Come Together, Frascati, Amsterdam
12.2022 Director: a divine aversion to DYING, co-created with Just van Bommel, Beginnings, Frascati, Amsterdam
11.2022 Director + Performer: For a Long Time Now, co-created with Manuel Groothuysen, Performance Night, Z33, Hasselt
09.2022 Director + Performer: For a Long Time Now, co-created with Manuel Groothuysen, Amsterdam Fringe Festival
07.2022 Director: GUT 4, Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam
05.2022 Director: GUT 3, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
04.2022 Dramaturg: One from The Heart, directed by Just van Bommel, Zaal 3, The Hague
03.2022 Director + Performer: For a Long Time Now, in collaboration with Manuel Groothuysen, The Spectrum Space x Instrument Inventors Initiative the Hague
02.2022 Assistant-Director: CRISPR, by Davy Pieters, Theater Rotterdam
12.2021 Director: Winternights Maastricht, This Connection of Everyone with Guts
09.2021 Montage director: Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Thank you for your Beauty, Just van Bommel en Kiriko Mechanicus
07.2021 Director: Zeecontainerprogramma Over het IJ festival, I think it’s a good thing that you came here
03.2019 Postmortem Recordings, Expocafé Zamen, Amsterdam
11.2019 Intervention during ‘De Laatste Aai’, Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam
11.2019 Museumnacht Amsterdam, Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam
07.2019 SNACK – Sociology is Not a Complete Knowledge, Greenwich West Community & Arts Centre, London (UK)
05.2019 Things to Do When You’re Dead, Cambridge City Crematorium (UK) 05.04.2019 Residual Matters, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
Residencies
03.2022 Instrument Inventors Initiative, The Hague
11.2021 NDSM-Theater Performance Technology Lab
07.2021 Pianofabriek Brussel Zomerresidentie GC De Markten
05.2021 WORM Rotterdam Performance Bar Residency
Work experience and commissions
2021 Performer: To Carry the Sun, IDFA Meets, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
2021 Waitress: Jan van Eyck Academie, MAastricht
2019 Waitress: Expocafé Zamen, Amsterdam
2019 Trainee Public Programme: Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam
2019 Set designer: VASSIŁINA, Albany Theatre, London (UK)
2019 Voice-over artist: Under Construction, door Julia Sterre Schmitz
2019 Performer: Sorry, What? during Prelon Musk: Acts of Kleinness, in Asylum Chapel, London (UK), directed by Eilidh Delves
2019 Co-curator: Residual Matters, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2017 Performer: Alles Over Iets en Dingen en Niets, during Prepare Festival, Het Amsterdams Theaterhuis, Amsterdam, directed by Diede Daalman
2016 Producer: Jay’s Jazz Nights, Isla Vista, California (USA)
Memberships
2022 VIA ZUID Maker
2018- International Visual Sociology Association
2016 IV Open Lab (community art organisation), Isla Vista, California (USA)
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