Alicia Marván (Mexico/New York) is a visual and performance artist dedicated to contemporary and experimental practices. Her interdisciplinary approach to art/life has led her to an ongoing investigation of a variety of media that explores color, space, form, movement, time and thought. Her main modes of expression are photography and site-specific performance, each being an integral part of the other in the artistic process. Always interested in the dialogue between art and life, as well as the interaction between performer/space/viewer, her work often appears in alternative spaces such as urban, industrial and natural settings. She is currently Director of the Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology (Mexico), Associate Artist with Lower Left Performance Collective (worldwide), and collaborates with independent artists from different disciplines. She studied Dance and Performance Art and has trained on the field as a photographer and graphic designer at renowned design, architecture and performing arts companies such as Gluckman Mayner Architects and Julia Mandle Performance (NYC). Influential teachers and artists include Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, Gordon Matta-Clark, Wolfgang Laib, Maya Lin, Andy Goldsworthy, Trisha Brown, Nina Martin, Mary Reich, Rachel Rosenthal, Mary Overlie, Anna Halprin and Diego Piñón. Her work has been presented by Movement Research, DanceNow/NYC, DUMBO Dance Festival and BRIC studio in New York; Highways and The Electric Lodge in Los Angeles; Sushi Performance and Visual Art, Sledgehammer Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Celebrate Dance Festival in San Diego; The University of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP), IntegrARTE and the Festival of Feminist and Kitsch Art in Mexico. In 2001, Marván co-founded Head On Off, an ensemble working with site-specific performance and dance for the camera. Other past performance ventures include working with The BodyCartography Project, Keith Hennessy, Nina Martin, Heads On Fire, Sawako Nakayasu, Katsura Kan, Nortec collective, Trummerflora collective; and directing several shows of her own in Mexico and the United States. CURRENT PROJECTS: Artist in Residence May 2008 to present La Ceiba Gráfica, Ex-Hacienda La Orduña Coatepec, Veracruz, MX www.laceibagrafica.com Premiere screenings of dance film "Betty" A collaboration with video artist Emilia Gálvez 8 March 2009, 7pm - PLAY09, Oaxaca, MX 15 April 2009, 4:30pm - Performática, Puebla, MX 14-16 May 2009 - Agite y Sirva, Xalapa, MX www.agiteysirva.com Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology 1-28 February 2009 An annual residency program for international artists from different disciplines, scientists and activists, directed by Alicia Marván. Ex-Hacienda Guapamacátaro, Michoacán, MX www.guapamacataro.org Making Sustainable Spaces for Dance Panel 29 July 2008. Alicia Marván joins a discussion panel as part of SEEDS Festival Earthdance, Plainfield MA www.earthdance.net Lecture in Site-Specific Performance 5 July 2008. With Anadel Lynton Snyder, Director of the National Center for Dance Research "José Limón" (INBA) and Alicia Marván Instituto de Cultura, Cuernavaca, Morelos, MX www.arte-cultura-morelos.gob.mx