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Maria Chavez Biography:
Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru, living in New York City.
She focuses on electro acoustic sound of vinyl and needle and has a collection of needles from immaculate to ruined that she calls her "pencils of sound" and a
collection of records that provide the palette.She has toured with Christiina Carter (Charlambides, Scorses), performed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her New York City debut, and recorded with London-based laptop artist Kaffe Matthews, with whom she will collaborate on a live sound installation in London in the fall of 2008.
Chavez has curated and performed in galleries and sound spaces around the
world, including STEIM (Amsterdam), El Cervatino (Merida, Yucatan), the Kitchen (NYC), and Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), where she was an artist-in-residence for the fall of 2006. In November, she collaborated with fellow turntablists Otomo Yoshihide, dieb13, and ErikM as part of the Wien Modern festival of contemporary music in Vienna. In June and July 2008, she will participate in an artist-in-residency program with the Merce Cunningham
Dance Company, Bard College at the Dia Foundation's museum in Beacon, New York. She will performing within one of Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipses" along with David Linton, Newton Armstrong and Stephan Moore.
She was recently awarded the Jerome Emerging Artist Grant from Roulette
in SOHO, NYC and is participating in an online residency with the Deep Listening Institute.
Chavez will also be included alongside Ikue Mori, Mira Calix, and
Marina Rosenfeld in a book entitled "Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound," written by Tara Rodgers and due to be published by Duke University Press in 2008. Tara's website
Her sold-out 2005 solo CD "Those Eyes of Hers" “…shows indeed a great
love for the way out experimental possibilities of turntablismâ€
(Vital Weekly).-------
MERCE's website
DIA:BEACON website
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Second part of my performance at the Emily Harvey Foundation in April, the East Village radio version is coming soon...you can check out the other recordings at mynamelookslikeme.blogspot.com.......
ARTIST STATEMENT FOR ROMA:ECONOMICAL AND EFFECTIVE--
Before I perform this piece I would like to address the ideas of roles. This projection was originally a going to be a very large painting, but as I started to work on it I realized that by painting this woman I was solidifying her existence as a real role (indigenous woman = cleaning woman). When in fact she is just a projection of that role. So I decided to project her onto myself as a statement about roles and ideas being fleeting and ephemeral, just like the physical projection itself. The purpose of this piece is to bring to question the general idea of roles that we project onto each other. For this piece, will I be the role of the performer and you the audience? Or is there a way that we can see, or rather feel each other as equals.
"My focus for this particular piece will be similar to one's experience of staring at a painting for too long. The mind sees what the eyes see, but as time goes on, the picture becomes distorted, the subject matter is forgotten and the painting
morphes into something quite different."
"About my Lack of Recordings"
I have received a lot of messages asking about where to purchase new music of mine but I am no longer recording my performances to sell music. My performances are video recorded instead for archival purposes and can be seen on my blog mynamelookslikeme for free.Thank you for your encouragement and understanding.
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