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Carmina Escobar (she/her, they/them) is an extreme vocalist, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City currently based in LA. Escobar investigates and expresses emotions, politics, states of alienation, and the possibilities of interpersonal connection through voice performances, installations, and video pieces that seeks to challenge our understandings of musicality, gender, queerness, race, the spoken word, and the foundations of human communication. She has presented her work in Mexico, Cuba, Europe, USA, and Canada in festivals and venues such as PST:LA/LA, Fabrica de Arte (HVN), CTM Festival (BRL), REDCAT, The Broad, The Kitchen, The Whitney, among many others. Escobar has been an artist in residence in Montalvo, STEIM, Binaural Portugal, OMI, Electroacoustic Music Studio in Krakow, Fonoteca NacionalMX, Indexical, The MacDowell Residency, and at the BEMIS Center in Nebraska. Carmina has received three Endowment Of The Arts in Mexico, the US Artist International Award with the project Estamos Ensemble, Master Scholarship of NALAC, the 2020 FCA Artist award in Music/Sound, and the NPN 2020 and 2021 Creation Fund Artists, New Music USA 2022 Development Fund for the project Vox Clamantis with performance artist Ron Athey. In addition to BOSS WITCH PRODUCTIONS, she is co-founder of LIMINAR ensemble and radical/experimental pedagogicalvoicehub HOWL SPACE Carmina is a faculty member of the VoiceArt program at CalArts. As an immigrant from Mexico key to her practice is the exploration of interstitial states of being— suspensions between worlds/politics/borders.
Madeline Falcone (they/them) is a performer, producer, and curator building an artistic community that challenges conventions. Recent productions include collaboration with Charles Gaines, Times Square Arts, Derrick Skye, REDCAT, Lincoln Center, The Broad Museum, Shelley Washington, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Peter Sellars, Ron Athey, Carmina Escobar, Micaela Tobin, and LACMA. As a proponent of experimental and contemporary music, Madeline is a co-director of LA-based organizations BOSS WITCH PRODUCTIONS and ISAURA STRING QUARTET. They have collaborated on violin and viola with artists in the US and Europe including Sarah Hennies, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Gloria Coates, Marc Sabat, Veronika Krausas, and Jherek Bischoff. Having performed on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall to Coachella, Madeline can be heard on recordings for film and television, and has performed and recorded with artists including The Eagles, The Temptations, Billie Eilish, Angel Osen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Deltron 3030, and more. Madeline is currently entering their third season as Co-Curator and Associate Producer of Music at REDCAT. They are faculty in the Music Technology and Digital Arts programs at California Institute of the Arts, where they produce and co-direct the annual CalArts Expo and thurs.night, an online exhibition showcasing monthlystudent work.
Alejandra Martorell is a Puerto Rican dancer, inquirer, educator, and student. Her work is rooted in movement improvisation, which often steers her towards collaborating across disciplines. She researches the development of experimental dance work in Puerto Rico through dialogue, collaboration, and mapping activities.
Show Description
El Vacío
In the dark of the deep space of the mind, our human bodies become filaments of light. We thread, we intertwine, we encounter each other and form knots that show no beginning or end, polymorphic individuals in the collective. We reverberate in the space linking it all, building a mesh with us, conductors of light, sound, emotion, and memory, guiding each other in the labyrinth of being. In El Vacio, performers Carmina Escobar, Madeline Falcone, and Alejandra Martorell materialize the strings of energy that link us, forming a net revealing the voids between them, a liminal space in which we find ourselves.
Madeline Falcone (they/them) is a performer, producer, and curator building an artistic community that challenges conventions. Recent productions include collaboration with Charles Gaines, Times Square Arts, Derrick Skye, REDCAT, Lincoln Center, The Broad Museum, Shelley Washington, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Peter Sellars, Ron Athey, Carmina Escobar, Micaela Tobin, and LACMA. As a proponent of experimental and contemporary music, Madeline is a co-director of LA-based organizations BOSS WITCH PRODUCTIONS and ISAURA STRING QUARTET. They have collaborated on violin and viola with artists in the US and Europe including Sarah Hennies, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Gloria Coates, Marc Sabat, Veronika Krausas, and Jherek Bischoff. Having performed on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall to Coachella, Madeline can be heard on recordings for film and television, and has performed and recorded with artists including The Eagles, The Temptations, Billie Eilish, Angel Osen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Deltron 3030, and more. Madeline is currently entering their third season as Co-Curator and Associate Producer of Music at REDCAT. They are faculty in the Music Technology and Digital Arts programs at California Institute of the Arts, where they produce and co-direct the annual CalArts Expo and thurs.night, an online exhibition showcasing monthlystudent work.
Alejandra Martorell is a Puerto Rican dancer, inquirer, educator, and student. Her work is rooted in movement improvisation, which often steers her towards collaborating across disciplines. She researches the development of experimental dance work in Puerto Rico through dialogue, collaboration, and mapping activities.
Show Description
El Vacío
In the dark of the deep space of the mind, our human bodies become filaments of light. We thread, we intertwine, we encounter each other and form knots that show no beginning or end, polymorphic individuals in the collective. We reverberate in the space linking it all, building a mesh with us, conductors of light, sound, emotion, and memory, guiding each other in the labyrinth of being. In El Vacio, performers Carmina Escobar, Madeline Falcone, and Alejandra Martorell materialize the strings of energy that link us, forming a net revealing the voids between them, a liminal space in which we find ourselves.