Music/ sound in the work exists as a rope, a bridge, a room (space) between both (video and sculpture). It rattles (shakes) the body before the mind has caught on/ caught up with any meaning that might exist or come to exist between me and you (”the audience”).
The ideas in my work are formed by the time I have been on earth; born in a colony, as an “afroindigenous” person, as a “woman”, most recently as a “mother” and the disciplines of response that belong to each. Sometimes the work is tragic, sometimes the work is funny, I prefer it to be both.
I’m working on new video, new music, new choreographies and new plants.
I was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and live and work between there and Oakland, California.
I am also one half of the music duo and experimental sound outfit XUXA SANTAMARIA.