About
︎Marisa Conroy (they/them) is a New Jersey-based multidisciplinary artist. They work within the delicious messiness of the post-digital, creating work that deals with the uneasy entanglements of the human and the digital. They take invisible digital processes and make them live and embodied on stage. Their work combines video, haunting sound design, and live audio mixing filtered through the human body. They’re interested in exploring the interstitial spaces where words, concepts, and imagery are lost in translation. Their research looks at the principles and functionalities that bind queer theory, animal mimicry, and the trans experience to cyborgs. Their work is radically queer and unexpectedly scientific.
As a producer, they have worked in Dublin, Ireland with Anu Productions, Live Collision International Festival of Live Art, and Lois Weaver. In the US, they worked most recently on NY Pops Up!, an expansive festival consisting of hundreds of pop-up performances that regularly permeated the lives of New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic run through the New York State Governor’s office.
They spent the Summer of 2022 working as a production intern on Big Art Group’s Venice Biennale presentation of Broke House in Rome and Venice. They were also a La Mama Umbria intern assisting with the execution of the Playwright’s Retreat and Director’s Symposium.
A list of artisic goals:
- To elicit it a ‘‘huh’’ and fleeting moment of introspection. My work need not take up permanent residency within your mind and body--a fleeting moment and a sometimes called upon memory.
- To bring awareness to your body and the fact that your neural pathways and thoughts and innermost being are housed in a strange sack of flesh that has developed to be what it is via sequences and processes of optimization, much like the phone that is likely in your hand or your pocket.
- A means to provide poetic commentary to our shared experiences of the banality of human life.
- Non-hierarchical place within the world archive of art.
- Address, embody, and physicalize the multiplicity of the self.
- Create a digital mirror, a means a self-introspection.
- To be intentionally non-functional and serve no tangible purpose. Decidedly anti-functionalist.
Marisa holds a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. ︎
