INDEX- Miami/Santo Domingo ‘22 INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
BONGO WATZZ
Shamar Watt is an experimental multidisciplinary independent artist born in Kingston (Jamaica) raised in Miami, based in Miami and New York City. He was nominated as one of the top 25 performers/choreographers to watch for 2019 Dance Magazine. Watt was a 2018 Bessie Nominee and in 2019 he was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance. Watt is driven by the politics of black frequencies as they shift/manipulate space and can enable the body to respond in radical ways towards illumination.
ARSIMMER MCCOY
Writer, International poet, educator, creative programmer, cultural worker, performance & collaborative artist. Arsimmer McCoy, is from Richmond Heights, Fl. McCoy’s work covers conversations about identity, self-reflection, human connectivity, legacy, validation, and transparency. McCoy’s writings delve into her experiences of growing up in Miami; oftentimes exploring its underpinnings and community threading, through storytelling.
NELSON GONZALEZ
Venezuelan Intellectual leak before Chavez. Twenty years of a professional career in the Dutch Caribbean as a contemporary artist, producer, curator, teacher, and filmmaker. Live and worked in Aruba formally since 2003. Presents more than 10 international personal exhibitions as an Aruban artist Founder of La Tintota (Venezuela) Art Rap Foundation (Aruba) EL PRAN Projecten, Curaduria Malandra.
MORIR SOÑANDO
Two individual artists that as a collaborative seek to explore relationships, needing people, walking away from people, and pulling them towards you. Using their bodies and movements the artists evoke great violence and tenderness.
VIOLENTA FLORES
Cuban-born, Juan Carlos Zaldivar (aka Violenta Flores) is a LatinX artist, director, writer and performer who lives and works in the United States. Their film and video art works have been screened at many festivals, art fairs and museums worldwide and aired on PBS, ABC, IFC, Showtime and WE. They served as a Juror for several major film festivals including the Sundance International Film Festival.
STUART KING
A long time resident of Miami, Stuart has played his trumpet in many international know groups including Willy Chirino, Celia Cruz, Mongo Santamaria, Tavares, KC and the Sunshine Band, Sister Sledge, Rose, Jaco Pastorius, Royce, Johnny Mathis, Frankie Avalon, Styx, and many of the top bands of Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. In the past several years, while not playing with the above mentioned, he concentrates on improvised experimental SoundArt which he has had quite a success in at top art galleries in Miami. Stuart continues to search for the beauty in free-improvised SoundArt.
DOMINICAN ARTISTS
ALEXEI TELLERÍAS
Poet and performer from Santo Domingo.
N.E.V.T.E.P.
Subversive spoken word and performance duo, questioning the truth in words and social constructions that are created in the narratives of art.
YO LA MATÉ
Noise and spoken word act of the Dominican poet Thaís Espaillat.
STEVEN TELEPÁTICO
IDM, noise and visual artist from Santo Domingo.
Dis.Tant
Ambient, IDM and experimental music project by Dominican artist Carlos Zouain.
ERIK ALFREDO
Erik Alfredo Martínez was born in Santiago De Los Caballeros in 1996. He studied film at Chavón La Escuela de Diseño and collaborated for Fabrica, Revista Simulacro, the French Alliance of Santo Domingo and Aurora Dominicana.