Join Locust Projects for the final Locust Late program and celebration of 2024, featuring a hands-on intermedia workshop with Richard Vergez and a special live audiovisual performance by Richard Garet. 

Sound & Vision, a new workshop by multidisciplinary artist Richard Vergez, is an exploration of intermedia art and experimental sound. Participants will explore the possibilities of combining visual and auditory media, experimenting with physical materials and hardware to create new forms of artistic expression. This hands-on workshop draws inspiration from historical movements such as Fluxus, the avant-garde,  video art, collage, and expanded cinema, while integrating modern digital tools and technologies. Throughout the workshop, Vergez will guide participants through the creative process of blending physical and digital media, providing a historical foundation and emphasizing the evolution of intermedia experimentation in the digital age. 

Participants are encouraged to bring a personal object or tool to contribute to the project, such as a piece of gear, laptop, camera, or light source; adding a unique element to the collaborative exploration of sound, vision, and new media art.

Stay late for Material Audiovision, a live audiovisual performance by multimedia artist Richard Garet that uses sound and light to explore perception and the materiality of technology. Incorporating analog and digital tools—such as malfunctioning tape players, electromagnetic fields, and algorithmic visuals—Garet works with obsolete technologies in real-time to reframe glitches, noise, and distortion as creative elements rather than flaws. This live performance at Locust Projects reflects on themes of memory, decay, and transformation, using these imperfections to highlight the physical and sensory relationship between sound, light, and the interaction that ensues.

About Richard Vergez

Richard Vergez is a multidisciplinary Cuban-American artist whose practice spans visual art, sound, and installation. His work, rooted in both abstraction and the avant-garde, explores the interplay between physical media and auditory experiences. Vergez employs techniques such as photomontage and tape manipulation to create minimal, experimental works, often incorporating found materials and unconventional processes. His visual practice emphasizes white space and abstract structures, while his sound work navigates the realms of electro-acoustic and post-industrial music.

With a background in graphic design and audio-visual composition, Vergez’s work has been exhibited in New York, London, Miami, and beyond. He is also active in Miami’s experimental music scene, founding the alternative music label Noir Age and composing scores for contemporary dance performances. Vergez’s interdisciplinary approach reflects his ongoing interest in the dialogue between sound and vision, exploring new possibilities in mixed-media creation.

About Richard Garet

Richard Garet (b. 1972, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a contemporary artist whose work spans sound art, experimental music, visual arts, and multimedia installations. Based between South Florida and New York City, Garet holds an MFA from Bard College, NY, and has been active in the U.S. since 1996. His practice combines analog and digital tools to create immersive sensory experiences that examine perception, time, sensory awareness, and the evolving connections between sound, vision, and technology, often incorporating obsolete materials and background noise.

Garet’s work has received recognition from institutions such as the South Florida Cultural Consortium, Prix Ars Electronica, New York State Council on the Arts, and CIFO Grants & Commissions Program. His material sound compositions have been published by labels such as 23five, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, and Line Imprint. Recent projects include Perpetual Motion (Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL), Media Under Dystopia Wisper Edition (MUD Foundation, FL), PORTALS (Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL), Transhemisférico (Gurvich Museum, Uruguay), Beyond the Sounds of Silence (Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL), and Screen Memory (Galerie Burster, Berlin, Germany). His work has also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona; and Times Square’s Midnight Moment.