marta rodriguez maleck

About

marta rodriguez maleck is invested in destabilizing shame and the taboo through performance, sculpture, and filmmaking. They use personal narrative to address interconnected historical, social, and economic issues for marginalized folk in America. marta grew up as a nonbinary lover and builder in a huge Catholic-Hispanic family in Springfield, MA during the opioid crisis. Via their mom’s encouragement they got out by attending RISD, majoring in Textiles. After an educational but unsatisfying stint working in fashion, they moved to New Orleans to work construction. There, they became enmeshed with an abundantly talented community of fellow-queer artists, documentary filmmakers, and masochist clowns. After a decade of creating 1-to-1 performances they went back to school to study at UPenn under mentor, Sharon Hayes. They are physically in New York, spiritually in New Orleans, and mentally meandering through nonlinear timelines.