Fisher Center LAB International Festival
Tactics of Transmission
Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
December 4–6
Fisher Center LAB International Festival
December 4–6
Acting as unruly colonial subjects, Puerto Rican artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente uncover the histories of Puerto Rican collections held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and question the broader logics of possession and preservation that shape archives and museums around the world. In this lecture performance about their experiences infiltrating the imperial archive, they use storytelling, images, and sound as forms of restitution.
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo Artist, Director
Sofía Gallisá Muriente Artist, Director
Alexandra Buschman-Román Composer, Performer
Pelé Sánchez Tormes Assistant Director
Kairiana Núñez Santaliz Assistant Director
Juan Fernando Morales Nazario Lighting Designer
Cristina Agostini Fitch Wardrobe Designer
Roxana Sánchez Production Coordinator
Objects created by
Amara Abdal Figueroa, Rocío Cáliz-Padilla, Richard Cameron, Pedro Pablo Rinaldi Jovet
With additional support from
Finca Carite, El Kilómetro, Agua, Sol y Sereno, Oswaldo Colón Ortiz, Sofía Martínez, Mario Negrón, Naíma Rodríguez, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Lara Sánchez Morales, Garvin Sierra, and Kateleen Suárez Suárez
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist whose practice claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining.
Her works employ text, image, sound, and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetics and politics.
She has exhibited at major international institutions, including the 61st International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, Documenta Fifteen, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, TEOR/éTica, SAVVY Contemporary, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico; as well as galleries like Proxyco, El Kilómetro, ifa Galerie, Dazibao and Embajada.
Her practice has been supported by fellowships and awards from Cisneros Institute at MoMA, Smithsonian, Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, Trellis Art Fund and the US Latinx Art Forum, among others. She has also participated in artistic residencies with the Vieques Historical Archive (Puerto Rico), Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), Headlands Center for the Arts (California), FAARA (Uruguay), Amant (Italy) and Fonderie Darling (Montreal), among others.
From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local in San Juan. In 2023, she published the artist book Observatorio de lagunas: notas de campo with Editorial Educación Emergente.
She lives and works in Puerto Rico and collaborates regularly with Natalia Lassalle Morillo, with whom she co-founded the production house Cocoloba.
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo is an artist and director from Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Merging experimental film and theater methodologies, her practice examines memory and history through extensive and rigorous periods of research and co-creation. Her projects unfold as rehearsals for an alternative historiography, thinking alongside fellow artists, researchers, and non-traditional performers to examine our relationships to the past while simultaneously foregrounding the creation of new mythologies and fictions rooted in the Caribbean. Presented as multi-channel video installations, short and long-form experimental films, and live theatrical performances, her work has been presented extensively in venues, festivals, and theaters internationally.
Her project Retiro, developed in collaboration with her mother, Gloria Morillo, is part of the 61 Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh. Other exhibitions include the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York), Amant (New York), RedCat (Los Angeles), 22a SescVideoBrasil Biennial (São Paulo), National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Blackstar Film Festival (Philadelphia), Images Festival (Toronto) and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). Natalia has been an artist fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, and has participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Amant (NY), Pioneer Works (NY), Mass MoCA (Massachusetts), and Fonderie Darling (Montréal). She has taught film and theater at Maryland Institute of the Arts, CalArts, and Bard Microcollege, and facilitates workshops and knowledge exchanges as a way to socialize her artistic practice. She developed her practice nomadically, but she is currently based in Puerto Rico, where she was born.
Alexandra Buschman-Román (1981) is a composer and sound artist from Puerto Rico, based in NYC. She uses the voice, electronics, noise, rhythm, improvisation, and ritual to create mystical sonic environments and songs for connection, drawing from Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous religious and musical ancestry. She was trained in classical Composition and Bel Canto at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. She later studied Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros, and Composition and Improvisation with Fred Frith at Mills College in California.
Her work with avant-tropical feminist duo Las Sucias has been recognized in KQED, BBC Mundo, and Pitchfork. Their records won #1 and #3 best record releases of the year in 2016 and 2017 from San Francisco Bay Area magazine East Bay Express. Her recent release with Trio del Mango has garnered a 2026 Elliot Norton Award nomination from the Boston Theater Critics Association for Outstanding Sound Design.
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