Marisa Demarco is an installation and performance artist, musician, and composer based in Albuquerque, N.M. Demarco received her MFA in Experimental Art & Technology from the University of New Mexico in 2022. She is also a journalist and works as a national editor with States Newsroom, a network of nonprofit outlets across the country.
She has composed a wide variety of songs and collaborative works. She composed “Overnight Dreamform,” an eight-hour song based on the adult sleep cycle and played on the radio for an audience of dreamers. She created “The Mountains Wore Down To The Valleys,” a collaborative work with Adri De La Cruz, which included 21 of Demarco’s compositions installed as 21 vinyl records playing continuously and eroding at the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She developed an outdoor sound installation, mural, and performance of the work “There Must Be Other Names For The River,” co-created by Demarco, Jessica Zeglin, and Dylan McLaughlin, for SITE Santa Fe. Her pieces have been exhibited in galleries and museums, including 516 Arts, GRAFT Gallery, and the UNM Art Museum. Marisa Demarco was also recently featured in a performance of Autumn Chacon’s Malinxe opera at the 12th Site International.
Szu-Han Ho is a Professor of Art & Ecology. She works in performance, sound, and installation, which explores the relationship between bodies and sites of memory. She often works collaboratively, through collective action, structured improvisation, and group composition. Recent projects include “MIGRANT SONGS,” a choral performance art piece based on stories and songs of human and nonhuman migration; and “Shelter in Place,” a sculptural installation and performance inspired by her family’s history in Taiwan.
Raven Chacon’s “Tiguex” unfolds throughout the Albuquerque area on Saturday, September 27, 2025, from sunup to sundown. Marisa Demarco co-composed movement XVIII, “Cantata,” which will take place that evening, where I-40 and the river intersect in the Duranes neighborhood.
Marya Errin Jones, Antonia Montoya, Liz Rincon, Mauro Woody, Kenneth Cornell, Monica and Marisa Demarco, and Professors Szu-Han Ho and Ana Alonso-Minutti will perform the piece. So excited for this to take place and to see more incredible work from both Szu-Han and Marisa!
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