Maria Chavez

Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Coincidence, chance & failures are themes that unite her book objects, sound sculptures, installations & other works with her improvised solo turntable performance practice. Her latest album, “Maria Chavez PLAYS Stefan Goldmann’s Ghost hemiola” was nominated for a Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in Jan. of 2020.

Currently, Maria is on the cover of the textbook on the History of Experimental & Electronic music by Routledge Publishing, is a David Tudor and Robert Rauschenberg Arts Fellow and a Research Fellow for Goldsmith's Sound Practice Research Department (2015-17). Her large scale sound & multi-media installations along with other works have been shown at the Getty Museum, the JUDD Foundation, Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germanyand HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel) amongst many other institutions around the world. She is currently an artist in residence with EMPAC (The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center) until 2022 and will present a new sound installation for BRIC Arts "Latin Abstract" painting exhibition from Jan. - May 2021. She is on a medical sabbatical due to receiving brain surgery in Feb. 2019 and will return to performing for the public in 2022-23. She appreciates everyone's patience and compassion during this difficult time.

Erica Saucedo

Erica Saucedo is a movement artist, educator, and scholar based in Austin, Texas. A current M.F.A. candidate in Dance and Social Justice at the University of Texas at Austin, Erica’s research is a curious exploration and celebration of brownness. By crafting practices of (re)embodiment Erica strives to find ways to interrogate and reframe static notions of gender, race, sexuality, and physical ability embedded in the history, iconicity, stereotypes, and popular music of the Americas. Ultimately, she researches and enacts ways brown bodies act as powerful sites for cultural production.

Nudo

'Nudo is a collaborative brain trust between Joaquin Tenorio of Juarez, CH Mexico and Eric Hernandez of Eagle Pass, TX USA. After meeting in 2017 and bonding over MIDI Norteño tracks and musical regionalisms that seem stuck between worlds, the two formed Nudo, the irreversible handshake, the Gordian knot of unending conflict and perpetual resolution; a partnership to create art and music about the twilight between the border zones. Together they create collages of lithe automation, free playing, inverted rancheras, and blown out cumbia, often paired with visuals made in collaboration with video and graphics artist Connie Pico, who also hails from Juarez. Nudo is an attempt to imagine, piece by piece, a warped replica of the sounds and sights of those lives lived at a precipice.’