A lost city upon a smile, diamonds, and fish among bubbles. Now tattooed on the skin of a unique fashion accessory.
With a live-drawing performance in the intimacy of the studio, I interpreted a story for fashion brand Tally Marks, on - and with - one of their signature harness bags.
Tally Marks’ accessories are made in small editions by artisans in Lebanon and with Italian materials.
Contact me for inquiries about this unique edition .
Performance film by Idoia Felis.
Live production of the installation “Mujer Emigrante Mercedes” performance, in tandem with Mercedes Álvarez.
Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-18:00
Part of the exhibition Found in Translation curated by Alba Chantico Ledesma, Nora von Bergen and Sarah Basyouny. Helmhaus, Zurich.
The performance is also part of the large series of events Zurich Art Weekend, 10 - 12 June 2022.
“Teilt deinen Teil” (Share Your Part) was one of the 7 performances part of the 12th edition of Neu-Oerlikon Performance Reihe in Zurich.
Once the exhibition closed, and the series of performative exchanges “What is Our Dream?” therefore finished, something had to be done to release the 76 dreams that had been shared, invented and produced during those 17 performance sessions.
Upon conversations with some of the “dreamers”, as well as with curator and museum director Simon Maurer, we made a ritual of release in three acts letting them go into the air, water and fire.
Group exhibition IN TRANSITION
September 5-29, 2020
Curated and organized by 6 1/2 in cooperation with Oxyd, Lokal 14 and us. – previously TART Zürich.
AVA presents the site-specific work Haus der Geschichten (Haus of Stories).
House of Stories invites to remember some of the stories that happened in the old factory building while it was still active. The installation shows 192 cards with the 192 names of the employees who worked in the factory at the time of the closure of the spinning mill in 2014. The artist sent each of the 147 ex-workers still living in Switzerland a personal letter asking them to send back a story about their time in the factory. Each received memory is then interpreted as a drawing.
Some of the drawn stories will be realized as a live performance during the exhibition. Performance drawing days: 5.09 (opening), 12 and 19.09, between 14-18h.
Kurhaus Bergün, 10.02.2019
Rosebud is a new coat hanger designed with old sledge parts by Swiss-based company schnidlersalmerón. With the occasion of its presentation, I will be enacting Rosebud, an act of transferring a large set of clothes from body to body.
Performance #Rosebud for @schindler.salmeron departs from Erwin Wurm’s work Fabio Getting Dressed (Fabio wearing his entire wardrobe), 1992
Performance 407 during opening. Photo: Caroline Palla
The works 407 (performance) and The Coffee Machine are part of the group exhibition SOLID, at Knoerle Baettig contemporary art gallery.
Curated by Annita Baettig and Merly Knoerle.
With artists: Muriel Baumgartner, Dominik Heim, Olga Titus, Alicia Velázquez
26 October – 24 November 2018
While Making It Together became a communal sculpture, a comunal moment. Not silent as envisioned, but a fun wrapping party!
Thank you to so many engaged colleagues who picked, threw and weaved those pink-thread spools.
While Making It Together, social act of making, at Adapt-r exhibition and PRS (Practice Research Symposium) plenary session.
AmbikaP3, University of Westminster, London
November 2016
While Making It Together to be featured in 3 upcoming events:
Photo by Tarek J. Waked for AVA (Alicia Velázquez Atelier)
While Making It Together will be part of the large group exhibition Adapt-r.
"This ground-breaking and challenging exhibition is the conclusion of a four-year international research initiative, funded by a major EU grant, and aims to provide rare insights through an extraordinary range of 35 creative practitioners from around the globe." (excerpt from AmbikaP3 announcement, full content here)
Ambika P3, University of Westminster
27 November to 18 December 2016, Daily, 10am – 6pm • Admission: Free
Exhibition Opening Wednesday 23 November 2016 18:30 - 20:30
After an intimate series of making moments with each of my Brussels colleagues at a time, the current sculpture travels to London, where I invite every person part of Adapt-r program to participate in a social performative (and silent) act of wrapping. Together we will wrap the current, chair-sized sculpture, to its temporary home during AmbikaP3 exhibition: a table.
University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road. NW1 5LS
Sunday 27 November, 4.15pm
Right after the plenary session of Practice Research Symposium.
I will be giving my third PhD in-progress presentation in the upcoming Practice Research Symposium. This time my focus will be While Making It Together, one work to be the lens from which to look through my practice.
University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road. NW1 5LS
Saturday 26 November, 9.30am
Photo by Alicia Olmos for AVA (Alicia Velázquez Atelier)
"Please, don't cut all of your hair". A tiny old lady came in just to give me her beauty advice. One Hair One Purpose. Keeps going. Week 3.
Another public daily setting - the window of a centric hairdressing salon. Transformation to a place where transformation, daily and lightly, is constantly happening.
It was the most naturally fitting performance experience of all.
OHOP at K-Styling hair salon.
Special thanks to stylist Anabel Blanco.
While obsessively thoughtful of time, present in every work I produce, I keep miscalculating it. Or, maybe, Time is the one miscalculating me, or my hair, for this particular matter.
3 days and 15 hours after the performance One Hair One Purpose at Corner College, with much of that hair still up on its place, and during the very performance, I had to make a quick decision: cut it all off right here and now? Or continue the performance and the cutting further?
And, while cutting, twisting, ringing and tying up, while lights, cameras and pairs of eyes were expectant on me, the decision came: the slow act of transformation must go on.
And if this act of transformation comes to a daily environment?
One Hair One Purpose, Week 2, at UNO Partner Architecture & Development.
With special thanks to partner Sebastian Schaeffer.
Thursday 29
With final PUBLIC EVENT between 20-21h
PERFORMANCE is taking place today, Thursday 29th, in
Corner College, 16-21h. Open to the public.
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Wednesday 28, from 12-17h (CET)
Uploaded by Alicia Velazquez on 2016-09-28.
Tuesday 27, from 12-17h (CET)
All photos, and assistance during this piece, taken and performed by Alicia Olmos
One Hair One Purpose in Corner College, curated by Dimitrina Sevova. Corner College Collective are Dimitrina Sevova & Alan Roth.
OHOP concept by Alicia Velázquez + creative collaboration of Tarek J. Waked