M/P '22
M/P '22
Day 1 - Virtual Video Festival: Facebook and YouTube
M/P '22
M/P '22
ARANTXA ARAUJO
Mexican artist with a background in neuroscience. Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, meditative and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance.
TOMÁS PICHARDO ESPAILLAT
Dominican filmmaker. He works mainly in animation, film and illustration. He received a two-year full fellowship at Fabrica, Benetton's design research center, in Treviso, Italy, in 2013, during this time his work appeared in Salone di Mobile (Milan), Adforum, Vimeo staff pick, and Vice Colombia. Tomás received his BFA in animation at Parsons, The New School of Design in 2010. And his Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Altos de Chavón, in 2008. A graduate of the Pictoplasma academy in Berlin, Pichardo's work has touches of magical realism. Evoking the colorful, surreal and sometimes disorienting experience of growing up in the Caribbean.
HAZILE BARRIS
HAZILE BARRIS was a moniker for creative collaborative projects between Nile Harris & Trevor Bazile.
Nile Harris is a performer and director of live works of arts from Miami, Fl. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing.
Trevor Bazile (March 26, 1996 - October 28, 2021) was an artist and filmmaker from Miami, Fl.
ROMA VAQUERO DIAZ
Argentine multidisciplinary artist, performer and researcher. Her projects include performance, installation, photography and audiovisual. Master in Combined Artistic Languages (U.N.A.) and Bachelor of Scenic Art (U.N.R.). She has participated in exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Belgium and India.
CINTHYA ESCORCIA
Visual artist born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1992, is also her place of residence. Her first approach to art began in her adolescence when she began to photograph her daily life, which led her to record her first videos about intimate rituals of her daily life from her webcam. Cinthya's artistic interests deepened when she studied Plastic Arts, finding in objects, photography and video performance a way of communicating from her introverted personality and talking about issues related to loneliness, the body and the daily life of the human being.
LEE CAMPBELL
Trained in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2005 and received his doctorate in 2016. His recent experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international queer film festivals including Queerbee LGBT Film Festival, The Gilbert Baker Film Festival and Kansas 2020.
STEVEN BABOUN
Steven Baboun is a queer artist from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and based in New York City. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Arts as well as a minor in Education Studies from American University and graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. Baboun is a multimedia artist creating through photography, video, performance, and installation. His work confronts social and political topics in Haiti⏤ from polarizing and controversial issues to elevating the importance of Haitian culture, family history, and immigration.
ANABEL VANONI
Argentine multidisciplinary artist based in CDMX, Mexico. Since 1993 she has dedicated herself to the investigation and experimentation of the work of her body in space: Performance. From then until now, her work transits through her own body, in a dialogue with photography, illustration, video-art, installations, dance, object art, textiles and design.
SEIKO KITAYAMA
Seiko Kitayama was born in 1982 and studied painting at Tokyo Zokei University and Musashino Art University. She started Performance Art in 2008 and participated in festivals and residency programs in India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, America, China, Singapore, Philippines, Serbia, Czech and UK. When she performed together with audiences, she got interested in building interactive relationships and compassion between artist and audiences. The theme of her work was about suppression of society and resiliency between you and me.
SANDRA PORTAL-ANDREU
Sandra L. Portal-Andreu (Multidisciplinary Artist/ Choreographer) is a Miami native of Cuban/Colombian descent. Ms. Portal-Andreu independently creates and presents work throughout the community, mixing dance with dialogue. Her work is deeply rooted in community, social practice, and identity, exploring themes of tradition, femme, culture, society, and politics through various mediums, genres, and spaces. Sandra has received support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Live Arts Miami, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami-Dade Public Library System, PBS’ Filmmaker Project, Judson Church/ NYC, Miami Light Project, NALAC, MicroTheater Miami, and Pioneer Winter Collective’s GrassStains 2018. She is a 2021 Dance Miami Choreographers Grant recipient and has created work for CityTheatre Miami, Juggerknot Theatre Co. “Miami Motel Stories: North Beach”, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company. Her choreography has been described as “striking”, “smart”, “chilling”, and “having a knack for the theatrical”.
ANALÍA BELTRÁN I JANÉS
Analía Beltrán i Janés has a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2001 she has focused his artistic activity on Performance Art. She has participated in numerous national and international festivals such as Acción! MAD in Madrid 2008 and 2014, X Biennial of Havana 2009 (Cuba), Infr’action Séte (France) 2009, Inf’action Venice 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 (Biennial of Venice), Guangzhou Live 3 (China) 2012, Live Action 8 Gothenburg (Sweden) 2013, Navinki International Performance Festival, Minsk (Belarus) 2013, La Muga Caula 2016 (Catalonia), Reihe Neu-Oerlikon (Switzerland) 2017, Perfomedia Bergamo (Italy) 2018 between others. She lives in Madrid where she develops a large part of her work in different spaces and galleries such as the Reina Sofia Museum, Matadero Madrid, Room Art Fair, etc. Since January 2018, she organizes every month in Madrid “P.E.P.A.” (Small Performance Art Event). She is also a founder member of PACK, a Chinese – Spanish performance group.
HOUSE PENCIL GREEN
The design/art collective House Pencil Green was formed in Los Angeles in the year 2000. Its principal members are Amy Ruddick and Joseph Herring. The duo fuse backgrounds in architecture, environmental design, industrial design, and art into carnavalesque multi-media installations, performances, and videos. Ruddick received her MS in Environmental Design and from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA (2000) and her BA in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis (1993). Herring received his MFA in Studio Art from ArtCenter (2001), studied film and video art at the University of Tennessee, and received his BFA in Studio Art from Washington University (1997). Exhibition highlights include a recent solo exhibition at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center; appearances on ACRE TV: Artist Run Television; and performances for INDEX 17, High Desert Test Sights 13, and Prospect 3 Plus.
GERALDINE RIVERA
Multidisciplinary artist, director and fictional character from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Geraldine studied visual communication on Long Island (Farmingdale State College), and then went on to work in NYC as a graphic designer in a fashion and beauty studio for 2 years. She moved to Santo Domingo again in 2017, where She has focused on working on audiovisual projects. Recently (along with her partner Fidel López) she won the audience award at the Centro de la Imagen Biennial 2021. She is currently a freelance creative director, and teaches storytelling and creativity classes at Chavón, La Escuela de Diseño.