Visual Studies Workshop Hosts Open Studio & Performance Event with Artist Valentina Alvarado Matos
EVENT: Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) Project Space Resident Valentina Alvarado Matos (Spain/Venezuela) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work addresses issues related to memory, diasporic identity and landscape through a dialogue with the materiality of film, paper, voice and ceramics.
As a part of her Open Studio, Alvarado Matos will stage a projection performance in the VSW theater entitled voy raspando la hoja y la voz (I am scraping the leaf and the voice): a 30 minute piece that combines 16mm film, slides, text, and cassette loops to create a sensorial and conceptual journey through memory of the landscape. The performance will begin at 7:30pm in the VSW theater.
DATE: Friday, October 17, 6-8pm
LOCATION: Visual Studies Workshop, 36 King Street, Rochester NY 14608
COST: $10 suggested donation; free for VSW Members.
Other VSW events this month:
Oct 9: Holding Space: Creating Belonging in Rochester
Oct 11: Claudia Claremi + José López Serra: La memoria en la diáspora (Virtual)
Oct 17: Open Studio with Valentina Alvarado Matos
Oct 18: Intro to Video Preservation (workshop)
Oct 23: SLUDGE the IVth: Bride of Sludge (Halloween event)
Plus the Diasporas are the Landscape exhibition running through December.
About Visual Studies Workshop: Visual Studies Workshop nurtures experimental and expansive approaches to photography and media arts, and builds community among artists and the public through exhibitions, publications and residencies. VSW was founded in 1969 in Rochester, NY by photographer, educator and curator Nathan Lyons (1930–2016), and became one of the earliest independent, not-for-profit, artist-run spaces in the country. More than 50 years later, the organization’s mission is reflected in its core programs: VSW Exhibitions and Salon events, Project Space Artist Residencies, and VSW Press. In support of VSW programs, the organization holds substantial photography and moving image research collections and an art library for artists, critics and the general public to explore, research and reuse. vsw.org