Mariah Castle & Carol Mancke
Mariah Castle is a performing artist, educator, and activist in the East Bay. Her work focuses on the relationship between audiences and performers. Mariah has an MFA in Theatre and Performance-Making from The California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Chichester, UK. Recent performing credits include Little Erik at Aurora Theatre Company and TheaterTheater with The Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project. She has been the theatre teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School for 11 years. She was recently the recipient of a Heart and Souls award through the Berkeley Public Schools Fund. As an activist she is the co-facilitator of a branch of Solidarity Sundays (SolSun), a progressive, feminist, anti-racist, grassroots political action collective. She is also the co-organizer of Dine for Democracy on-going project that raises funds for voting rights while driving business to local restaurants.
Berkeley and London-based artist and architect, Carol Mancke works at the intersection of fine art and human habitats. Through her art and architecture collaborative practice, Machina Loci, Carol seeks to create thought-provoking interventions in situations and places of everyday life through individual and collaborative research projects. She also runs machina loci space, a place for playful research into alternative ways of being, thinking, and doing together in Berkeley California. Carol’s work has featured in solo and group shows in Britain and Japan, notably at the the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial in 2009. In 2011-12, she was an artist in residence at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, Australia. Carol has degrees from M.I.T., UC Berkeley and the University of the Arts London and is currently pursuing a PhD in fine art practice at the Royal College of Art London. She is investigating artistic practices that help us to break through habitual patterns of thought and hopes that it is possible for artistic practice to function as a positive force in the public arena.
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