I’m excited to announce a large-scale new project co-directed by Timespace Duo (Mariángeles Soto-Díaz and myself), an intermedia installation called Cadena de las Américas which was exhibited in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) at UC Irvine from Oct. 9-11, 2025. Thanks to everyone who came out! I will share documentation on this site soon, but in the meantime here is the description:
La Cadena de las Américas is an intermedia installation that immerses the viewer in an aleatoric assemblage of unfixed possibilities, interlacing video dispatches collected from the Venezuelan diaspora with historical footage, field recordings, spatialized soundscapes, an e-waste “penetrable,” and hammocks. This work arises in the context of the largest displacement crisis in the history of the Americas, alongside the increasing vilification of migrants, a flood of hateful, xenophobic disinformation designed to alienate us from our American neighbors south of the border (for America is a continent, not a country). Cadena is a contrapuntal work that defines its own measures of distance, foregrounding interdependence – economic, sociopolitical and cultural – and framing authoritarianism and the asymmetric fractures and flows of migration through the lens of the contemporary Venezuelan experience.