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In her works, choreographer, performer, and artist researcher Miriam Jakob focuses on the interface between science and fiction. Through installations, films, and collaborative stage works, she playfully addresses questions of representation, accessibility, and inter-species communication. Her works frequently begin in the contact zones between human and non-human worlds, questioning forms of knowledge and her perception of the world. These performative investigations, often created in transdisciplinary collaboration, are curious attempts that utilize a sense of uncertainty as a mode of encounter, initiating an ongoing inquiry into one’s own perception.
Her body of work includes Friday, 23.1.1915 [sic] “as usual, sorry that I do not always…” (2013), How to Become a Journey (2013), Dynamic (2013), Travelling to the Four Corners of the Earth (2014), Letters to Dance (2016), In the Shadow of Man (2017), Mit/teilen (2019), The Broken Promise (2020), and the interdisciplinary event Currents of Breath (2022).
In 2020/2021, she participated in the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme (gkfd, Künstlerische Forschung Berliner Förderprogramm) together with Helsinki-based choreographer Jana Unmüßig for the research project “Breathing With,” in close collaboration with Lisa Densem. In 2021, she was a scholarship holder at Villa Kamogawa, a residency in Kyoto. In 2022, she continued her artistic research on breath within the framework of Distanz-Solo, with the project titled “Ecologies of Breath – On the Performativity of the Unrepresentable.” Furthermore, she initiated the interdisciplinary project “Den Berg hören – Choreografien des Zerfallens,” focusing on a crumbling Alpine peak, in collaboration with Arantxa Martinez, Felix Claßen, Maximilian Haas, and Susanne Schmitt, which lead to an experimental essay film based on their artistic field trips.
In 2024, she premieres two new performances —Geteilte Echos and its further development, Schwächezonen—both of which explore the fragile stability of a mountain on the verge of collapse.
Miriam graduated from the MA Choreography program at the Theaterschool of Amsterdam (DAS Choreography), holds a BA in Dance, Context, and Choreography, and an MA in Anthropology (FU). She is also a member of the queer feminist collective ALTES Finanzamt e.V.