Interview with Valeria Vicente — Future Traditions

Interview by Natalia Rocafuerte

Valeria Vicente (@valeriavlo) is a Mexican experimental videomaker, visualist, VJ, photographer and new media glitch artist, co-founder of the visual experimentation project, Ultrachina.

How is your winter going, where are you located?
It's been not so cold so far, I'm in Mexico City

How did you come about creating this piece?
I had a really bad injury earlier in 2019 and it made me feel really unfortunate, I was really enjoying and having lots of live presentations and I felt really insufficient, then I looked it with a bit of humor, I had always been called #badluckVal I'm the person who gets hit by the ball at the gym class haha and I tried to play with the words around me; broken, hand, fortuna, luck, fingers, touch, melancholia, sadness, restart.

What drives your experimental work?
Life. My passing through it, the images around me, architecture, femininity, Mexico City, nature, my family and the internet.

What’s your hometown?
Acapulco, Guerrero MX

What are you listening to?
Nothing, I usually don't like to listen to music just to quiet the silence.

Watching?
Tie me up! Tie me down!

Would you care to share your last dream?
I dreamt about going to my hometown and enjoy the beach. :)

Valeria Vicente (@valeriavlo) is a Mexican experimental videomaker, visualist, VJ, photographer and new media glitch artist, co-founder of the visual experimentation project, Ultrachina. She mixes the intervention of own and found film elements, both physical and digital filters and videosynthesis. With the use of software, code and analog methods; through the manipulation of inks, oils and other liquids, through the development of her own videofeedback plus collage technique, she creates new experiences in the field of visual exploration, atmospheres of adverse textures and contrast that generate through repetition in "loop" and dissonant jumps, digital psychedelia that plays with the worlds of the unreal and the performative action in every act.

At a young age, Valeria has performed, exhibited and projected her work in different galleries, museums and stages in Mexico and around the globe, such as MUTEK MX 16th edition, NRMAL 2020, Granada Theater in Dallas, TX, National Museum of World Cultures, INBA Mexican Plastic Hall and The Wrong Biennale in Barçelona.

Social/website: https://www.instagram.com/valeriavlo/

Check out Valeria’s latest video project Fortuna Absentis during our Experimental Shorts Broadcast hosted by Natalia Rocafuerte on December 4 2020 at 8PM Central Time. RSVP here!