Project Space Residency

Tetsuya Maruyama (Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes film, text, performance, sound, idea, installation, etc(not necessarily in this order). His work departs from re-contextualization of found banal matters and textures, as a liminal record of quotidian observations. As an independent programmer and researcher, he has presented programs on Brazilian experimental cinema in US, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and Canada. He is a founder of Megalab, an artist-run film lab in Rio de Janeiro.

My work usually departs from an observation of my quotidian environment, experienced in different scales in varied matters, principally analog(photochemical) film, sound, insects, text, action, presence/absence, and most importantly, life. As an artist, my desire/interest is to not have a fear in experimenting a new (non)artistic language. It is difficult to let go what you have acquired through your own work. Opening up to new horizons allows you to be free in all possible ways. Transitions. For the last 5 years or so my practice has been widely transgressive, oscillating among varied matters although photochemical process has been at its center of the oscillation, providing a ground for experimentation in other expanded territories. My current approach to moving image is “making images move” instead of “making moving image.”

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.