The Fun-a-Day in the Bay show opened on Friday night at Rock Paper Scissors (Oakland) and will be up for the whole month of February. There was a great crowd, music by Jonathan Mann (who has been writing a song-a-day for over two years!) and the Rock Cookie Bottoms, a bunch of Art Murmur fun, and whole lot of art. One of my painting was stolen a little over an hour into the show after an earlier botched attempt.

My work, from artjokes.tumblr.com

For more Fun-a-Day photos, check out my flickr stream.

Some videos from the performance I worked on for the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland have found their way to the internet:

There are a couple more excerpts on youtube.

Ted and I made some art for a show in an old convent in Brooklyn now known as St. Cecilia’s Gallery. It involved lighting prayer candles and watching videos of celebrities, before they were famous, talking about how they wanted to be famous. I’ll post photos soon.

Here are a couple reviews from the show I worked on last month with Tender Forever and Ted Passon at the Time-Based Art Festival in Portland:

Melanie Valera’s heart is as boundless as her bag of tricks.
Portland Monthly Magazine

Review: Tender Forever & Lovers
Portland Mercury

And a nice tweet: “Tender Forever just dropped some serious next-level shit at #TBA – I honestly can’t begin to describe how awesome it was.”

Ted and me, pre-Whitney performance.

And here’s the video of the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=472m0czbuKY

I’m working with Tender Forever and Ted Passon on a performance that will take place this Tuesday at the FIAF in New York:

In collaboration with Whitney Live, Crossing the Line presents four contemporary composers “in dialogue” with pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968) as part of the Whitney’s upcoming retrospective of her career.

Tender Forever (Mélanie Valera), Du Yun, Tamar Muskal, and Missy Mazzoli will compose scores for films by Alice Guy Blaché, the first-ever female filmmaker, and perform live interactions with the films themselves—simultaneously investigating contemporary composition and performance.

I’m working on some interactive programming, animations and props. And I have a part in the performance. More info.