M/P '22
M/P '22
Day 2 - The Bass Museum, 6 PM - 9 PM
M/P '22
M/P '22
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.
MARIA THERESA BARBIST
Maria Theresa Barbist was born in Schwaz, Austria and lives and works in Miami, Florida. She translates traumatic memories and emotional states into performative actions, moving pictures and sculptural objects. Barbist holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Innsbruck and received her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.
KUNSTWAFFEN
Kunstwaffen 2014-2022 Has been a experimental music band working with complex sound and visual problems in both acoustics and politics.
TWO COIN
Noise performer from Miami.
RAFAELVARGAS BERNARD
Born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Rafael Vargas-Bernard is an interdisciplinary visual artist, noise musician, and performer with digital art and new media tendencies. Vargas Bernard studied computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, sculpture at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, and La Práctica at Beta-Local (San Juan, PR). His work explores functional and non-functional systems (including power structures, economic systems, and generative systems) and society’s relationship with these. He creates pieces and experiences that are often interactive and require some participation with the intention of provoking dialogue and action. He employs readily accessible materials and technologies, found objects, and a painterly yet utilitarian aesthetic. Vargas-Bernard combines performance, sound, programming, sculpture, painting, humor, and digital media in his creative practice.
JENNA BALFE
Jenna Balfe is an artist/musician and activist from Miami. She is the lead singer of the group Donzii. Balfe graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Sustainability Studies and Dance in 2011. In 2017 Balfe received a Master of Science from Pratt University in Dance Movement Therapy. Through her studies, Balfe uses a scientific and emotional perspective to approach the human relationship to self, each other, and nature. In her recent and unfolding fantastical performative narrative "Transnaturism" she questions the idea of human belonging and agency in relation to the existential value of the natural world.
MARCO GUGLIELMI REIMMORTAL
Marco is a visual artist, sound designer, and performer who gained notoriety for his large conceptual installations showing a harmonious vision of vibrant sonic bodies. His main source of inspiration is sound, which is completely integrated with vision. His lifelong research is based on the connections between visual and sonic perception based on emotions, a non-verbal language that is –above all – an energetic exchange. Marco started working in digital/analogue editing and recording in the middle of the 80’s, being a pioneer in Italy.
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.
AGUA DULCE
Agua is a queer latine healer and artist based out of Miami. They hold degrees in psychology and art history, and their practice has been informed through self-taught and self-explorative methods. They reject the hierarchy of institutional “fine art” and prefer to utilize organic (fruits, plants, water), mundane, and easily accessible materials for their creations; thus, elevating the experiences of the everyday person and furthering the embodiment of magical realism. They perform sound healing for those needing reconnection with their soul and create intentional body adornments (as jewelry or tattoos) to remind folx of their strength in transforming their realities and ability to influence their futures in alignment with their needs.
TLL DANCE ENSEMBLE
Tradisyon Lakou Lakay Inc. is helping the community by fostering a positive image of the Haitian arts and culture while propelling youth to become Agents of Positive Social Change. Participants gain better perspective of self as viable individuals in their community causing an effect. Through TLL camp programs the children and youth find a platform to create, collaborate and respect and embrace their heritage thus learning to appreciating arts and culture at large. During their Concert Series and Haitian Folkloric Dance classes emerging artists find opportunities to leverage their work.