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A portfolio of multimedia artist Madam Neverstop
A portfolio of multimedia artist Madam Neverstop
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MADAM<br />
NEVERSTOP<br />
ELIZABETH TORRES (MADAM NEVERSTOP)<br />
PERFORMANCE & MULTIMEDIA ARTS, VISUAL POETRY,<br />
WORKSHOPS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVITY.
ABOUT<br />
ELIZABETH TORRES (MADAM NEVERSTOP)<br />
Colombian/American poet, translator and multimedia artist.<br />
She has a background in Media & Film and Fine Arts from Kean University,<br />
NJ, and an MFA in Performing Arts from Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Writing<br />
Specialization).<br />
Winner of the Ambroggio Prize 2022 by the Academy of American Poets,<br />
<strong>Eli</strong>zabeth is the author of over 20 books of poetry published in Spanish,<br />
English, Danish and German, and her poetry has also been included in<br />
anthologies and literary journals around the planet. <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth is a<br />
frequent speaker at universities, poetry and culture festivals and other<br />
events across Europe, Latin America and the US, having traveled to over<br />
30 countries with her work.<br />
Host of the Red Transmissions Podcast, and initiator of the international<br />
audio collection Poetic Phonotheque, as well as a cultural organizer in<br />
the Nordic regions.<br />
<strong>Eli</strong>zabeth is the director of Red Door Magazine & Red Door Gallery, with<br />
which she provides a platform to local and international artists. She is<br />
also project coordinator for other initiatives in Europe and abroa, and<br />
director of the yearly Nature & Culture Poetry Film Festival.<br />
www.madamneverstop.com
MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE<br />
Her work intertwines poetry, visions and soundscapes with language and<br />
performance across various art forms and media.<br />
Creating under the name of Madam Neverstop, her interests involve<br />
soundscapes, visual arts through textile/fabrics/papers/paintings, and<br />
presented as installations which often also involve film, animation,<br />
and performance… all of this centered around conversations on agency,<br />
identity and territory. These live performances usually include video<br />
projections, tape recorders, synthesizers, vox pedals and microphones<br />
to combine live poetry and soundscapes.<br />
www.patreon.com/madamneverstop
INTERVENTIONS OF<br />
A SPACE<br />
ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE:<br />
This performance is an intimate<br />
space for the audience to experience<br />
individually, share their secrets,<br />
fears and dreams, and get a typed poem<br />
in response.<br />
It can be performed at 2 hour<br />
intervals, and requires volunteers to<br />
invite the audience to enter the cave,<br />
preferably in the style of bouncers<br />
at the entrance of a club.<br />
Includes soundscapes and typewriters.<br />
Concept inspired by the cut-up of<br />
William Burroughs and the collages<br />
and drawings of HC Andersen.<br />
A conversation about sexual diversity,<br />
intimacy and human connection,<br />
presented as an artistic intervention<br />
in the main hall of the HC Andersen<br />
museum in Denmark, 2022.
EXHIBITIONS<br />
Due to her extensive background of over a decade in the performing<br />
arts as an interdisciplinary artist, <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth has an array of works<br />
of visual poetry involving stop-motion, animation, experimental film<br />
and experimental music. They can be screened individually in a gallery<br />
or museum, or as a headphones installation for a curated compilation<br />
exhibition.
PANELS AND TALKS ON MULTIMEDIA POETRY<br />
As a cultural promoter and director of<br />
the international archive THE POETIC<br />
PHONOTHEQUE, <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth gives talks in<br />
museums, libraries and other cultural<br />
spaces, which combine a discussion on<br />
the importance of the diversification<br />
of cultural spaces, combining<br />
conversations with international and<br />
local guest artists, culminating in a<br />
poetry reading and the presentation of<br />
a selection of videos from around the<br />
world that are part of this archive.<br />
As of 20<strong>23</strong>, these events have taken<br />
place in 7 countries and over 20<br />
cities.<br />
www.poeticphonotheque.com
INTERDISCIPLINARY CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS<br />
The interdisciplinary creativity<br />
workshops focus on the use of poetry<br />
as a channel for important messages<br />
from our communities, represented<br />
in written, then visual and audio<br />
form. Multimodal forms of expression<br />
and how to tap into these resources.<br />
Participants first hear a talk about<br />
<strong>Eli</strong>zabeth’s career, her accomplishments<br />
and lessons learned along the way,<br />
and view a selection from The POETIC<br />
PHONOTHEQUE of international voices<br />
and videos from around the world that<br />
are part of the archive.<br />
Using various tools, such as analog or<br />
digital audio recorders, computers,<br />
typewriters, papers, their mobile<br />
phones or other objects, they develop<br />
a concept that is then presented as<br />
a sound or audiovisual poem, which at<br />
the end of the workshop, are added to<br />
the collection of the sound library.<br />
These workshops have recently been<br />
commissioned by the University of<br />
Copenhagen and the University of<br />
Wales, the international performing<br />
arts festival Artival and the Finnish<br />
organization Kirjan Talo.<br />
Each festival and event is documented<br />
at www.reddoormagazine.com.<br />
madamneverstop@gmail.com<br />
www.madamneverstop.com<br />
@madamneverstop
X SPECIES: A multimedia show with live soundscapes, visual mapping and<br />
multilingual poetry in two voices to create a fascinating space where the<br />
audience could relax and immerse themselves in a conversation about our<br />
role in the conservation of the planet and the species that inhabit it,<br />
including our own.<br />
Daniel worked on the visuals creating moving images that he intertwined with<br />
sounds I created with vocal loops on my synthesizers, droning noise through<br />
my #lyra8 and a tape recorder, and all linked with poetic interventions<br />
from one or both of us.<br />
Tranås Fringe Festival, 2022, Sweden.
COLLECTIVE MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES:<br />
X SPECIES: Second collaboration of the series X, 20<strong>23</strong>, with the participation<br />
of Daniel Malpica, <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth Torres and Pablo Saborio.<br />
“X-changes” is a poetic multimedia show that explores species loss,<br />
abandonment and the haunting specter of oblivion. With three captivating<br />
voices, evocative soundscapes and fascinating projections, it confronts<br />
the fragility of our planet and the consequences of human actions.<br />
Images made live with overhead projectors by Daniel Malpica and <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth<br />
Torres.Soundscapes activated through layers of cassette players, music by<br />
<strong>Eli</strong>zabeth Torres and Pablo Saborío.Live poetic performance in 3 voices by<br />
Daniel, <strong>Eli</strong>zabeth and Pablo.<br />
Theater Jarmo, Tranås Fringe Festival, 20<strong>23</strong>, Sweden.
FOR BOOKING, CONTACT:<br />
madamneverstop@gmail.com<br />
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