Maralie Armstrong-Rial

Maralie Armstrong-Rial is a Brooklyn-based intermedia artist and vocalist working primarily in performance, sound and video. Her/their work practices the refraction of self through various media as a corollary to the refraction of light/sound through water/glass. She performs and records solo as VALISE, a project that speaks and dances with itself, transposes ancient star data into video song and listens for ecstatic energies.

Maralie also performs with poet and musician Eli V Manuscript as Humanbeast. Between these projects, she has collaborated with the Body, Drew McDowall, Wolf Eyes, Early Shinada, Carlos Gonzalez, Work/Death and Sofia Reta; sung with the Assembly of Light Choir; and had the opportunity to dance for Sigrid Lauren and Nick Cave (Soundsuits).

Maralie holds a BFA in Sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Digital + Media from RISD. Her work has been featured in Vice Magazine, The Fader, Believer, and RISD Museum’s online journal Manual, among other publications. As an educator, Maralie is currently teaching as adjunct assistant professor at Brown University in the Modern Culture and Media Department and as a critic in the Digital + Media department at Rhode Island School of Design.