Multifungi at Canal Projects, New York
Thank you to Sara Garzón for the invitation to show my work at Canal Projects in the frame of Eglė Budvytytė exhibition at Canal Projects. It was great to work with you all in such a great space, and get to share my work with an awesome public in attendance. I look forward to check out other works at Canal Projects – if you an in the area definitely check them out!
Here is the description of the project and a video of the set – as an added bonus I got to collaborate with my daughter who is familiar and eager to create with me, taking me at my word with the the spirit of improvisation and creation!
March 31, 7pm
Multifungi at Canal Projects, New York
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.
Paulina Velázquez Solís 