Claudia Mannigel is an artist/researcher with a background in Contemporary Art and New Media (Université Paris 8, Concordia University, Université du Québec à Montréal) whose work is engaged critically with social territories and their transformation. Exploring local socio-economic systems and their boundaries, her projects create space for questioning from within. Through inquisitive investigations of everyday life, her projects activate close bonds with her local surroundings.

Her art practice explores a variety of intuitive approaches to sharing social and creative processes at the level of lived experience. These projects take the form of experimental situations for physical and social engagement, where the public takes an active role as participants. Situations develop as a result of the planned and unplanned actions of the participants, often bringing them into a relationship of shared authorship. Each project generates encounters and critical discussions while also engaging others in the creative process and allowing them the space to steer it and change its outcome. Opening up the creative process challenges the artist to participate differently in the specific group dynamics of each new project and incites constant reflection upon her actions. Since the exploration of spontaneous forms of participatory engagement is the main focus, resulting artifacts are treated as archival and documentary rather than art objects in themselves.