Performance "To Bring You My Love"

Alicia Velazquez September 2, 2025

"To Bring You My Love"
6. September 2025, 18:00 H
Heimplatz, Zurich

The performance To Bring You My Love is an exploration on the shifting ways of communication, from the dialogue that once happened through analog dialing, to the one-to-many digital broadcasting of our current time. The telephone booth, operated by the artist, navigates in-between as a metaphoric bottle adrift whose message might be found, or simply lost. An object once installed for public convenience, the booth is activated as a screen of scattered messages.
Borrowing its title from the 1995 song by PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love meditates on the vulnerability of reaching out, embodying both romantic yearning and the isolation of modern connectivity.

The performance is done with the active participation of the people present, and will have a broadcasted viewpoint, that you can also follow online on my Instagram stories.

Final performance of the series METAMORPHOSIS or what if the rabbit becomes a poodle. A creative journey through the last telephone booths in the city of Zurich, begun in early 2024. Curated by Window of Fame.

Exhibition “Trilogie Südtrottoir"

Alicia Velazquez June 12, 2024

Exhibition introducing a group of interventions in public space, in the area of Zurich West.
Organized by Hartdurm Art Space. Curated by Lorenzo Ballotti & Daniel Imbach (Hartdurm), Mischa Camenzind.

Performance and installation "Between Us Skin"

Alicia Velazquez May 23, 2024

Exhibition "Sharing intimacies. (Ex-?)architects explore the self"
21 May - 27 June 2024
Delft University of Technology
Curated by Javier Arpa Fernández and Kornelis Fragakis.

Beyond the usual focus on art related to design, the exhibition (organized by BK Public Programs) explores art and intimacy. While recognizing the value of art interventions in the public realm, the exhibition engages with intimacy as a form of communication, that not only includes but also requires a sense of community.

Sharing Intimacies features five artists with backgrounds in architecture who will offer unique perspectives and expressions on themes such as human connection, body, identity, empathy, and storytelling.

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FOREVER: Artist edition Tally Marks x Alicia Velázquez

Alicia Velazquez November 23, 2023

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.

Presentation of the book "51 Artists (Self) Portraits"

Alicia Velazquez November 6, 2022

With the (self) portrait “Extension of Self” I have participated in this long-term work by artist Thilo Hoffmann.

The exhibition and vernissage presenting this wonderful publication can be visited during Zurich Art Weekend at LUMA Schwarzescafe, in Löwenbrau, Zurich.

Performance "Share Your Part" (Teil deinen Teil) in Neu-Oerlikon Performance Reihe

Alicia Velazquez August 25, 2021

Awarded the grant Covid-19 from the City of Zurich

Alicia Velazquez April 1, 2021

I have received a production grant for the realization of the 6-month project “Weiss und Schwarz, Dinge und Rituale” (White and Black, Things and Rituals) in which I will work with performance and ceramics. The work gravitates around the concepts of togetherness and belonging. In it I will invite a group of migrant Spanish women in Switzerland to share and reinterpret their stories together.

Haus der Geschichten in the exhibition IN TRANSITION - Kunst in der letzten Baumwollspinnerei der Schweiz

Alicia Velazquez August 24, 2020

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.

Rosebud Performance

Alicia Velazquez February 9, 2019

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

www.schindlersalmeron.com

L'Immortelle du Monde in Kunstmuseum Bern

Alicia Velazquez November 9, 2018

Second round of L’immortelle du Monde by Robert Filliou.

With Guillaume André, Michel Collet, Baptiste Gaillard, André Eric Létourneau, Stanislas Pili, Klara Schilliger, Emile van Helleputte, Alicia Velázquez, Valentine Verhaegue, Michaela Wendt, Miao Shuye Zhao.

Part of La République Géniale. Curated by: A. Binder, V. Maly, S. Merten, S. Renz, P. Sansano, R. Ziegler.

Production Kunstmuseum Bern and Dampfzentrale Bern.

WMIT GOES LONDON

Alicia Velazquez November 4, 2016

November 2016

While Making It Together to be featured in 3 upcoming events:

Photo by Tarek J. Waked for AVA (Alicia Velázquez Atelier)

EXHIBITION

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

PERFORMANCE

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.

PRESENTATION

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