Artists
Argentina
DJ Migma
CAMP scholarship
15.05.21 29.08.21
DJ Migma (Miguel Masllorens) is a DJ and sound artist. His work focuses on experimentation with turntables and vinyl records, with proposals that combine elements and resources of appropriationism, improvisation, noise, performance and accusmatic.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“The approach to turntables and vinyl records, from the conception of sound instruments, implies working in an archeology of the media due to the express documentary and archival nature of this type of medium. Artistically articulated and deepening the exploration of its possibilities, these anachronistic devices and found objects –with their range of possibilities within the spectrum of sound– become powerful poetic triggers that challenge the present and collective memory through multiple resignifications of our auditory culture.”
ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP
DJ Migma received in 2021 a grant from CAMP in association with Fundación´ace to take the online course Sound, Language & Position, taught by Antye Greie (AGF). In the words of DJ Migma: “the course was very productive insofar as its continuous reflection on the possible activist aspects and political discourses related to artistic creation within the complex scenarios that we are currently going through in the world. At the same time, it allowed me develop an exercise and collaborative work with the participants (artists and researchers from remote places), which would have been practically impossible if the virtual encounter had not been generated.”
CAMP is an institution functioning in a refurbished 19th century hotel located in the French Pyrenees, at an altitude of 750 m, 10 km away from the Spanish border and surrounded by snow-capped peaks, waterfalls and forests. CAMP offers five-day sessions of art, music, writing and artivism. Its programs combine work in its equipped facilities with projects carried out in the nature of the mountains.
BIO
Miguel Masllorens (Mig Ma)
1979 | San Carlos de Bariloche
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
EDUCATION
2021 | Archives and Activations seminar, by Romina Resuche. Proyecto Imaginario, Argentina
2018 | Maciunas’ Map, Fluxus and the Expanded Art, seminar by Martín Bauer. Academia 4’33’’, Argentina
2004 | Bachelor in Fine Arts, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA, Argentina)
EXHIBITIONS
2021 | Phonografías (activation of the exhibition Emergencia y Nostalgia – Gráficas y grafías en la experimentación sonora). Centro de Arte Sonoro—CASo, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Argentina
2020 | Leftfield Techno (with Cecilia Castro). Ciclo Invertebra, Espacio Magma, Argentina
2020 | Necrophonias. Ciclo La Escucha como Acción, Lima, Peru
RESIDENCIES
2015 | III Encuentro Argentino de Improvisación y Composición Musical. Organized by the National Fund for the Arts and the Ministry of Culture of the Argentinian Nation. Camping Musical, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
AWARDS
2021 | UsinaTV Award for the video Washing Machine. Aventura del Hombre project
2019 | Patronage for the photo-book edition LIGLAB BSAS
2014-2017 | Nominated in the category [Best Performer / Other Instruments] for four years in a row at the annual survey for jazz journalists from the specialized site El Intruso