Fernando Martín Velazco
| Disciplines | Fine Art, Performing Arts, Visual Arts |
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| Regions | Baja California, Gulf of California, NW Baja California, Pacific Islands |
| Website | https://www.instagram.com/fmartinvelazco/ |
| Affiliation | Stultifera Navis |
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| About | Fernando Martín Velazco is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Baja California Sur since 2019. His work operates at the intersection of performance, storytelling, and environmental research, with a particular focus on wild and remote territories. Through site-specific theater, sound-based installations, and transmedia narratives, he explores the relationships between humans and non-human species, the transformation of landscapes, and the political and poetic dimensions of peripheral ecologies. His transdisciplinary cycle The Leviathan’s Playing (2017–2021), dedicated to the study of gray whale migration and interspecies mediation, received second place in the Quo Artis Award 2020 (Barcelona), an international prize for projects at the intersection of art, science, and ecology. In 2023, he premiered Abintestato de Gumongo, a hybrid performance developed in the central desert of the Baja California peninsula. The piece was selected for the Baja California Sur State Theater Showcase, where it received an Honorable Mention for Best Original Idea, and in 2024 was invited to the Technology Symposium organized by the Scenic Arts & Design Prague Quadrennial. That same year, he presented TINNITUS, a live sound performance based on underwater recordings in the Gulf of California. He has also been awarded residencies and fellowships including the Djerassi Residency Program (California), AIR InSILO (Austria), Al Balad AIR (Saudi Arabia), and various public programs in Mexico, including ACT UNAM–FONCA and PECDA Baja California Sur. His academic writing has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Media-N Journal (Illinois Open Publishing Network), Leonardo (MIT Press), and post(s) (USFQ), where he has addressed topics such as interspecies communication, speculative documentary, and ecological imaginaries. He has also contributed to cultural and journalistic media such as Gandhi Lee Más, VADB, and NORO, where he published “Viajera del Noroeste” (The Northwest Traveler, 2022), a transmedia documentary on the life and cultural history of gray whales. |
