Paulina Velázquez Solís, Art professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Architecture, will be presenting a media performance at Canal Projects in New York City on March 31st.
Multifungi is a project of media performance with live animation and sound. The performance is an exercise in control and chaos enacted by the hybridization of disciplines between the visual arts, sound and performance. Multifungi captures the amorphous that escape classification, proposing an aesthetic of the abject, the organic and decomposition, which are represented by cyclic transformation of images and textured sound and noise.
The work focuses specifically on mushrooms, as they are neither plants nor animals, they are their own kingdom. Mushrooms reproduce in resilient ways, have varied textures and ways of surviving. They also can change their environment to create and sustain the cycle of life by decomposing matter. Using narratives that oscillate between foreseen circumstances and improvisation, the artist Paulina Velázquez Solís employs drawing and found materials that interact in a sequence of destruction and transformation.
The performance is aligned with a Noise aesthetic and the “tight chaos” it can create.
About Canal Projects:
Canal Projects is a non-profit contemporary art institution dedicated to supporting forward-thinking international artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Through production, exhibition, research, and interpretation of this work we intend to foster artistic practices that challenge and reflect on the current moment.