My practice of making time-based work integrates but is not limited to: costume, installation, reading, the internet, travel, observation, design, verse and sound. I inlay information and unfold images and movement with a root aesthetic foundation. In this Process Lab we will experiment with some of my techniques to blend words, movement and color, using time as our frame. Please be prepared to observe, activate, speak and listen. Bring clothes you feel comfortable to move in.

Mariana Valencia is a dance, installation, costume and zine artist. Mariana integrates her many fields of artistic interests into time-based work. Mariana has had residencies at Chez Bushwick and New York Live Arts (2013), and in Los Angeles at Pieter Pasd and Show Box LA (2014). Mariana will be in residence at ISSUE Project Room during 2014-15. Mariana will travel to Mexico City to research Cumbia Sonidera dancers in July of 2015; this trip is made possible by the Jerome Travel and Study Grant. Mariana has been in New York since 2006 and she has a BA from Hampshire College. rhinocerosevent.blogspot.com