Mitch Garcia

Mitch Garcia

Mitch Garcia is a cross disciplinary art practitioner based in Manila Philippine who works on the premise of: Graphic Design, Performance Art, Painting, Video, Installation & Print. A graduate of Fine Arts major in Advertising in 1999 (Philippine Womens University)—her work crosses over Urban Advertising concepts & Contemporary Art in a 3rd world setting.

Her creative concepts which challenges and originates (usually from live action) where actual reactions of cause & effect takes place, from which her works evolves into collages of sorts. She has performed both individual and collaborative : 2003 NIPAF Asian Performance Art Series Japan, 2004 LELIEU Internationale D’ Art Performance Art Montreal & Quebec Canada, 2005 MIPAF 1st Macu International Performance Art Festival, 2006 Segundo Encuentro Arte Corporal Caracas Venezuala (among others). She has also done performances for local independent films: Such as Melancholia (A 9 hour film by Lav Diaz) and Khavn Dela Cruz’s Kumander Kulas in late 2008, and has mounted several exhibitions simultaneously.

Her video works has been shown in the “End Frame Video Art Projects” & several other countries from 2006-2009–Such as PERFORMATIVITY Singapore, NIVAF Video Art Project Japan, and IMAGINE spoils of love 9-installations Greenbelt 5. She is one of the founding members of TAMA – Tupada Action and Media Art in 2001,Participated in ASEUM (Asia Europe New Media Art Symposium) 09, and Fete Dela WSK (among others).In 2008 founded INC –Innovative Noise Collective along with Ian Madrigal. At present she currently runs her Manila based design team MG Freelance Creatives.

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