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Mantis Dance — Photography from An (Auto-)ethnographic Documentary on Erotic Dancing


About The Artists

Ahna Prinz aka Marlene G Prinz is a transdisciplinary artist that works along lines of the grotesque, the ugly, the bizarre, the divine, the sexy, the erotic, the feminine, the roughness, and the toughness with a mixture of socio-political disgust and a playful humorous smile. Her practice is situated in collective and collaborative working formats using various media such as drawings and paintings, videos, installations, choreography, performance, and dance. Topics such as social inequality, oppression, femininity and womanhood, social change, pop- and sub-cultures are intertwined in her works.

Akua is a figure of the night. Light-footed yet determined, she roams the darkness driven by pulsating basses and the moans of her subordinates. Where sweat becomes nectar and her shedding skin becomes ambrosia. Her mission is divine, her judgment strict. Ready for her eternal reign, she condemns to death all those who stand in her way. She is a master at maneuvering between social protocols and the tightrope walk of taboos. Her main practices as an artist are dance, performance, and seduction.

Sarah Fitterer is an artist based between Berlin and the Netherlands. Her work investigates love, agriculture, and power. Speculating about how they often make no sense and all the sense at the same time. She enjoys the collaborative aspect of filming, making the process a big adventure with newly defined rules of what is possible. Besides film, her practice includes graphics, objects, performances and occasional activism. Her favorite animals are chicken, shrimp and cows.