Valeria
Tizol
Vivas
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Valeria Tizol Vivas (b. 1993, Puerto Rico) is currently based between Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, CA. She is a B.EnvD graduate from the School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

Tizol Vivas is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is based on the exploration and transformation of her and others' human experiences from connections with memory, traditions, spatial and material processes through the sense of time and relations as ancient, rotten, or fresh.

www.valeriatizolvivas.com
Asfixia, Spring 2020
2:49 minutes
HabloCueva, Spring 2020
voice recording 8:05 minutes, pastels on paper, text
Transcripción

haaablar
se me hace bien difícil hablar
sacar cosas de mi cabeza
compartir lo que pienso
haaablooo
hablo como un susurro
hablo y no me entienden
hablo y no artículo
haaablooo
habló
cuando se supone que aprendiera a callar
hablo
haaablo
hoy pensé en ser productiva
sin embargo nunca encontré el tiempo porque no hay tiempo
si no sacas tiempo, ¿hay tiempo?
si no hablo pasa el tiempo
mi voz es un espacio
mi voz
¿llena o forma un espacio?
tengo en la mente que no
que mi voz no es importante
que sigo susurrando
susurrandome
hablo en monólogo
no se como compartir
no se como hablar
no se como comunicarme
siempre me han dicho que no se contar historias
y ¿cómo hablo si no se contar historias?
eso es lo que hacemos nosotros, ¿no?
contar nuestras historias
¿me voy a quedar como observadora toda mi vida?
escuchando
escuchando historias ajenas
¿y la mia qué?
¿mi historia qué?
creé una cueva
de roca volcánica
y ahí
me callé
y me dormí
me dormí
o se me durmieron las extremidades
o se me durmió
las cuerdas vocales
¿cómo me despierto?
o es más difícil ser ver que se quiere despertar
pero no querer hacerlo
cuando uno duerme el cerebro se limpia de toxinas
¿qué toxinas me quedan a mi?
si yo sigo durmiendo
es más fácil dormir
es más fácil poner otra roca en mi garganta
y no tragar
sentir
lo áspero en mi garganta
y no tragar
sentir ese objeto
en mi garganta
como un nudo
que se crea por el roce
que se crea por la fricción
hacer físico
mi miedo a hablar
hablo
trato de ser más honesta
hablo
empiezo susurrando
susurrandome
un grito sutil
un movimiento
de viento
hablo
se me hace un charco de saliva en la boca
siento que escupo un poco
cuando hablo
la boca como piscina de saliva
en la piscina se supone que uno disfrute, ¿no?
agua
soy agua
fluir como el agua
las palabras fluyen
¿así funcionan?
hablo
haaaaabloooo
haaaaabloooo


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Translation

ssspeak
it's hard for me to speak
get things out of my head
share what I think
I ssspeak
I speak like a whisper
I speak without being understood
I speak and I don't articulate
I ssspeak
spoke
when I was supposed to learn how to shut up
I speak
I sspeak
today I thought about being productive
however I never found the time because there is no time
if you don't make time, is there time?
if you don't speak time passes
my voice is a space
my voice
fill or form a space?
I have in mind, no
that my voice is not important
that I keep whispering
whispering to me
I speak in monologue
I don't know how to share
I don't know how to speak
I've always been told that I don't know how to tell stories
and how do I speak if I don't know how to tell stories
that's what we do, no?
tell our stories
am I going to stay as an observer all my life?
listening
listening to other people stories
and mine what?
what happens with my story?
I created a cave
of volcanic rock
and there
I shutted up
and I fell asleep
I fell asleep
or my limbs fell asleep
or I fell asleep
the vocal cords
how do I wake up?
or it is more difficult be see that you want to wake up
but you don't want to
when one sleeps the brain cleanses itself of toxins
what toxins do I have left?
if I'm still asleep
is more easy to sleep
is more easy to put another rock on my throat
and not swallow
to feel
the roughness on my throat
and not swallow
feel that object
in my throat
like a knot
which is created by rubbing
which is created by friction
make my fear of speaking physical
I speak
I'm trying to be more honest
I speak
I begin whispering
whispering to me
a subtle scream
a movement
of wind
I speak
my mouth makes a puddle of saliva
I feel like I spit out a little
when I speak
the mouth as a pool of saliva
in the pool one is supposed to enjoy, no?
water
I am water
to flow like water
words flow
that's how they work?
I speak
I ssspeak
I ssspeak
Nos Metieron las Cabras, Fall 2020
Jolgorio (goat), hay, shipping pallet wood, chicken wire, plaster, cardboard, paper, acrylic
Process of Making Charcoal, 2020-2021
2:59 minutes
Bloque de Carbón / Charcoal Block, 2020-2021
charcoal made of shipping pallets
Solo te mientes a ti / You only lie to yourself, 2020
4:03 minutes

Solo te mientes a ti / You only lie to yourself, 2020
Cardboard box mask, used cooking oil, saliva, three empty wrappers of mints.
Siempre a tu lado / Always by your side, 2021
Nightstand, a table, MDF, yellow thread, formica, ink, charcoal
Skin on Skin, 2021
chicharrón, image of the artist skin, wheat glue paste, copper rod
Fat Studies, 2021
Water, lard, chicharrón dust, acrylic plastic, charcoal
Filtro/ Filter, 2021
Wood Panel, muslin fabric totes, wild clay, water
Exploration of form for chimneys and ovens, 2021
Wild clay, charcoal, wood panel