BIOGRAPHY
MADS MARONE (b. New York, USA), is a Swiss performance artist.
Their practice centers on large-scale, sensorially immersive environments that position the physical body within space. These installations are activated through extreme performances that treat the body as sculptural material, revealing the body as poetic matter—particularly through the lens of feminist-Actionism. Their work employs sensory mechanisms as a device for consciousness alteration—olfactory and gustatory triggers, movement and sound, and multisensory objects to construct immersive synesthetic experiences. Body is matter and a site of memory in their process: scars, tattoos, beauty marks, and residues become temporal markers that reveal layered collective narratives. Bodies intertwine with natural materials to serve as living archives in ritualized landscapes, compelling both performers and spectators to confront and traverse corporeal forces of emotion, expressing what lies beneath language and reason.
Marone graduated with an MFA from the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, under Alexandra Bachzetsis and Mårten Spångberg, after studies at The New School, Eugene Lang College under Neil Greenberg and Janet Panetta. Marone left their studies at London Contemporary Dance School, to pursue more expanded research of movement and corporeal intention beyond contemporary dance. Marone worked as a member of The Living Theatre in Italy and as an actor of Hermann Nitsch’s Orgien Mysterien Theatre.
Marone’s works have been performed and exhibited at Musée d’Art et Histoire (Geneva), Kunstmuseum Den Haag (Den Haag), Arsenic (Lausanne), Sofia Underground International Performance Festival (Bulgaria), Espace Topic (Geneva), Le Trou (Geneva), Lokal-Int (Bienne), Faito Doc Festival (Italy), Plast gallery (Leipzig). They have been invited to artist talks at institutions such as Musée Tinguely. They are a founding member of Sensorium Collective, based in Geneva and dedicated to progressive performance art and post-Actionist research.