A Milch de la Máquina choreographed, light-triggered performance, exploring surveillance, visibility and the public-private divide.
light-sensitive oscillators / fabric / flashlights / LED strands
2017
Photos by Vincent Comparetto
Performers: Diana Delgado, Marisa Demarco, Marya Errin Jones, Gena Lawson, Liz Rincon, Mauro Woody
A composition for UNM’s John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium. The piece focuses on the practice of music students to consume beta blockers to steady the hands and calm the nerves. For this piece, the performer consumes a beta blocker and monitors her heart with a cardio mic. “Cardiac” also incorporates audio clips of interviews with music students who’ve used—or considered using—beta blockers during performance.
carcio mic / turntables / first-hand accounts
2012
Cardiac from Marisa Demarco on Vimeo.
Full video by Manny Rettinger and Emma Crane
A composition commissioned for Manny Rettinger’s Chuppers–acoustic and electric creatures that refract sound. Excerpts are from a live Keller Hall performance of “La Virga,” which includes interviews about performers’ memories of intense weather and atmospheric events to evoke the changes of climate in our short lifetimes.
2013
La Virga from Marisa Demarco on Vimeo.
Performers: Daniel Villanueva, Monica Demarco, Rosie Hutchinson, Marisa Demarco, Stephanie Graner, Clifford Grindstaff, Chuppers
Full video by Lisa Villanueva
Using a heartbeat as a breakbeat, controlling one’s pulse live.
cardio mic / interior and exterior vocalizations
2011
Bigawatt: Mango from Marisa Demarco on Vimeo.
Filmed by Autumn Chacon
Gatas y Vatas is a long-running gathering Demarco founded, but it’s constructed by many organizers as a non-hierarchical team. The festival a community art project that offers a platform for solo, cisgender and transgender women and nonbinary performance artists to push their own boundaries and those of their audience. GyV has also become a platform for visual artists and crafters to showcase their work, and it’s sparked a series of compilation albums, companion zines, art shows, benefit parties and workshops.
2010 to present
Photos and images on this page by: Nani Chacon, Tahnee Udero, Marya Errin Jones, Marisa Demarco, Lisa Lorenzo, Jessica Billey, Gena Lawson
PRESS: Denver Westword / Alibi / Pyragraph / GetFesty
