Clara Amaral's interdisciplinary practice questions what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing modes of reading, writing and publishing.
Clara Amaral is an artist working with writing, performance, printed matter and publishing.
Her interdisciplinary practice questions what it means to be a reader, to be a writer, aiming to expand existing modes of reading, writing and publishing. Central to her practice is the investigation of publishing modalities and the performative aspect of language.
In January 2021 Clara initiated misted.cc, an online platform: A book of sorts. Every new moon an artist, writer, graphic designer or curator, 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. misted.cc was initiated in collaboration with Jonathan Mikkelsen (developer) and Karoline Świeżyński (design). Since August 2021 Sven Dehens joined misted.cc as a developer. As of the new moon of February 2022, misted.cc is edited by Clara Amaral and Simon Asencio.
Clara’s work She gave it to me I got it from her, with graphic design by Ronja Andersen and Karoline Świeżyński, was published in 2021 by Kunstverein Publishing. 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.
Clara Amaral graduated in 2013 from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) and from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in 2019. Her works have been recently presented in The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, France, Norway, and Switzerland.