stefa marin alarcon is a genderless, genreless vocalist, composer, educator and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY to Colombian immigrants.
Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics and video collages, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced and future generations of Brown and Indigenous radical artists of the diaspora.
Their artistic practice explores concepts of home, identity, gender, borders, erased ancestry and radical trans, queer & Native futures through music, theater, ritual performance and video.
stefa has shared their work, spirit and song with Lincoln Center, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Nublu, BAAD!, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Body Hack, Fierce Futures and more.
They studied euro-centric classical voice (Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and concentrated in drama at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. They were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, Slippage Residency at Duke University in collaboration with MX Oops, as well as a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019), Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020), Artist In Residence at The Kitchen (May 2021) and Artist In Residence at Beloit College (2024).
Their experimental ritual performance film, Born With An Extra Rib won the Queer|Art Prize for Recent Work (2022) and Jury Award for Best TransGenre Short/Mid Length, TRANSlations Seattle Film Festival (2023).
Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018. Their forthcoming multi-media record Born With An Extra Rib will be released Spring 2024.
Photo by Lissyelle Laricchia