Photograph by Tei Blow

MA is an artist based in Milan, Italy. She began her artistic career as a musician and then later combined dance and film. She has released five studio albums and has performed in venues across Europe and the United States. Her photography / filmmaking portfolio includes dance, portrait work, commercial as well as commissioned work. Drawing from her experience as a dancer, she also explores the role of movement in performance e.g. Anne Namba Fashion Show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (NYC) and art installations e.g. Lost for Words (2013), Ich sehe nicht die Stunde (2014), The negatives are under my skin (2022) as well as for overall health, as part of her training in the GYROTONIC^® method and the LYT Yoga® Method.

A former practising lawyer and legal scholar, she has also combined her artistic work with her legal training. Between 2009/12, she established Artist (s) at Large®, a performance art research lab whilst a visiting scholar at New York University Law School, Columbia Law School and Cardozo Law School. Her law and art scholarship has been published in international peer reviewed law journals e.g. Law and Humanities and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities. She also collaborates with interdisciplinary artists for projects (personal as well as works for hire).

Her most recent productions include an EP, “I AM HERE WHERE I AM HOME” (“IAHWIAH”) (33 Jazz Records / The Orchard, 2018) and a digital audio / visual release, “Come Back Beautiful” (33 Jazz Records / The Orchard, 2020) and a multi-media installation, ‘The negatives are under my skin’ for the Casa Bolivar, Buenos Aires (May, 2022).