Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere
Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere are American artists who have collaborated since 2001 on video, sound, performance, and installation projects. They sometimes work under the name neuroTransmitter. Their art often uses popular music to explore how visual forms move in public spaces and how politics, sound, and language relate.
They have shown works in many places, from the Staten Island Ferry and Plaza de la Liberación in Guadalajara to Austin City Hall’s Plaza Stage and the Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden in New York.
One example is The War Song (2010), where they slowed Culture Club’s song and changed the score to a minor key to reveal a sense of sadness in the lyrics.
Their first U.S. survey was at ICA Philadelphia in 2016.
Backgrounds: Angel Nevarez was a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program studio fellow (2001–2002) and studied biology at UC San Diego (1993–98). Valerie Tevere was a Whitney ISP fellow (1999–2000), has an MFA in Photography from CalArts (1997), and a BA in Political Science from UC San Diego (1993).
Memory of a Time Twice Lived is a video work that blends music video, documentary, French avant-garde, and science fiction. It was shot in Philadelphia and Mexico City and features an accordionist performing in Philadelphia.
In 2015 they created a site-responsive piece at the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse for No Longer Empty’s exhibition When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out, curated by Regine Basha. Using call and response, the work explored the history of hip-hop and break dancing in the Bronx, with narration by B-Girl Rokafella and MC Lady L, and references to Afrika Bambaataa. It was also shown in their ICA Philadelphia survey in 2016.
After the 2008 elections, they studied how soapbox spaces let people voice political ideas. On September 8, they joined Creative Time’s Democracy in America: The National Campaign with Another Protest Song, a karaoke-style suite of protest songs staged across New York City for the public to perform.
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