Maf'j Alvarez

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• Rootbeans – 2014

    An evolution of Choice, Chance & Circumstance. Top image: Game played on the floor with improvised ‘beans’ made of pasta at Digihub art and chat Jan 2014 with 6 artists including Aharon, Selena, Simon McLennan, Rachel Cohen, Maf’j Alvarez, Johnny Marshall. Bottom image: A replaying of the game using the same pasta ‘beans’ by […]

• Cells – 2003
• Choice Chance & Circumstance – 2003

  Choice, Chance and Circumstance – Newcastle Graft, Waygood Gallery 2003 Choice, Chance and Circumstance is an ever drawing evolving game that brings people together to explore themes of decision-making, ownership, communication, boundaries, information and belief. The wider themes are of power and control on all scales from the individuals internal dialog with the world and […]

• More bark than bite – 1998

  With Hannah Barker Dry Bar, Manchester, 1998 A collaboration with Hannah Barker exploring interpersonal relationships and the sexual tension existing in public spaces. A site specific soft sculpture installation in 5 pieces.

• Powerbabies VR 2019

  Power Babies VR is an all-out nappy-slinging world domination war game that brings out the egotistical power-hungry toddler in all of us. Part VR game prototype, part political satire piece, the experience was made at a two-day hackathon in 2019. Power Babies VR puts you in the baby seat of the world’s most powerful toddlers […]

• 911 – painted forms
• Glass half full – 2015

  “We were awkward with each other. We no longer had the assumptions, the tracks and paths of our former relationship to guide us. Until we’d established the new assumptions we wouldn’t know quite what to do or say.” Margaret Atwood – the edible woman Originally the piece was called Cursory Glances. The reference was on reflected and […]

• Gorba (Uprooted) 2022

  Gorba (Uprooted) is a multiplayer VR experience for the Oculus Quest that encourages the exchange of stories carried in virtual objects. It was created over 4 days for the 2022 StoryJam event in Utrecht, Netherlands in October 2022. The project was created in collaboration of Team B – four women with different backgrounds – Iran, […]

• Almost Home 2023

  When I’m walking home at night in the dark, I hold my key so it sticks out between my first and second finger in case I need to hit out at somebody. I stand up straight and tall, and put my hood up if I have one, so that from behind, it’s less obvious that […]

• Hook seeds – 2002