Javier Bustos is an Argentinian artist, composer, performer, and educator who currently resides in Buenos Aires. His artistic practice explores the poetics of listening, sound production, image, body, and movement blurring the disciplinary boundaries of sound, music, and visual art. He experiments and researches diverse techniques and methods in robotics, contemporary music, and performance. Bustos is the recipient of the prestigious 2023, 111º Salon Nacional de Artes Visuales award in Installation and Alternative Mediums in Argentina. Javier has participated in prestigious contemporary art residencies in both Latin America and Europe. His work and performances have been hosted in different exhibitions, concerts and festivals in Argentina, across Latin America, Europe, and the United Kingdom.
Javier has collaborated with many artists around the world including Daniela Rivera with whom he is preparing an opera to be performed at Mass MoCA in 2026.
Campanario Periférico #1, 2021
Wood, nails, hammer, wire, and percussion mechanism
15.75in x 15.75in x 8in