AMoCA Collection | sea (primordial lineage), 2021, video on hologram display, 24” x 24” x 3”
RAIR | 2021-22
Marie Alarcon | PHILADELPHIA, PA
Marie Alarcon is a multi-medium artist with a focus on experimental non-fiction filmmaking and performance. Alarcon has worked as a community media educator and producer in Philadelphia since 2009. Their work has screened at film festivals including BlackStar, SF Urban Film Fest, Harlem International and their solo and collaborative performances and exhibits have been at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Asian Arts Initiative, and Icebox Project Space among others. Alarcon is a 2018 CFEVA Fellow, 2010 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, 2009 Leeway Art and Change Grant recipient, and Independence Public Media Foundation and Good Pitch Local/UnionDocs funding recipient. Residencies are an important part of Alarcon’s process, and they have attended 8 residencies over the past 10 years, these include Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC), Neighborhood Time Exchange (Philadelphia, PA), and SensLab (Montreal, QB).
Alarcon's multimedia, multi-medium experimental work incorporates performance, sound, and assemblage/collage. Their work explores hidden histories through the lens of environment and is informed by place and its production, the role of the invisible in a culture of visible evidence, and poetics. Alarcon have begun working with augmented reality and more complex projections looking for processes that can defamiliarize the viewer and open them up to a respectful experience of stories often overlooked. Their expansive, process oriented practice often includes collaboration with dancers and musicians, bridging the poetic, the performative, and the journalistic.
www.mariealarcon.com
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • Marie Alarcón “Relocations” • January 15 - February 27, 2022
