Maya Dikstein was born in 1988, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), now lives in Tel Aviv. Graduated from the filmmaking department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her works focus on the human body, play with durational experiences and are featured by a crossbreeding between performance, installation and sound.
Maya investigates the voice and its relation to movement, excrements and libido often in collaboration with other people. Through the body, she searches for relations with nonsense, glossolalia, ecstasy, daily movements and the communication between beings. Mythology and oral language tradition are a great source for her work.
Maya has shown at the Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), MuseumsQuartier (Vienna), Erratum Gallery (Milan), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como), Institute for Human Research (Arizona), Bezalel Gallery (Israel), The Artists Residence Herzliya (Israel) and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo), among others. Her work has been published on Taxi, a sound project book with Anri Sala and Hans Ulrich Obrist, also in various exhibition and project catalogues alongside artists as Tacita Dean and Tunga with Mousse Publishing (Italy), SESC (Brazil), Granta (Israel) and others. She has taken part in several residencies such as in Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Itaú Cultural (São Paulo), Oranim Academy (Israel), Lastro Arte (Mexico), Numeroventi (Florence).
Mar~Yãm Volfzon (they/them), also known as Makabra Coqito, is a multi-spirited artist born in Brazil (1988) and rooted in México. They work at the intersections of performance, drag cabaret, healing practices and popular education. Mar~Yãm’s processes of life and creation are viscerally moved by political art and ancestral body medicines. They are currently working on a performative and pedagogical research project based on dreams, healing rituals, and feminist justice processes.
Graduated in Theatre and Performance Studies (University of Rio de Janeiro, UNIRIO), master in body therapies (Angel Vianna College), master’s degree in Performing Arts at PPGCEN (UNB), perennial student of Mexican Traditional Medicines.
Mar~Yãm was awarded with the scholarship for Artistic Creation AMEXCID (Mexico); and has presented at several festivals and art events, such as: Shinzaburo Takeda Gallery (Oaxaca, Mexico); Border Cultural Center (Mexico City, Mexico), International Theatre, Alternatives and Research Meeting (Querétaro, Mexico), PornoPorsi Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hangar Residency (Barcelona, Spain), Festival Truth is Concrete (Graz, Austria), CorpoSubCorpo Festival, SESC de Santos (São Paulo, Brazil), II Usp International Theatre Biennial (São Paulo, Brazil), Panorama Dance Festival (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
