Studio Birdhaus is a grassroots, multi-purpose media and archival studio serving memory and community. Founded by memory worker Brandon Perdomo, the studio produces photography, video, sound projects, and other narrative-driven media.
My practice is driven by public & oral history. This involves sitting in collaboration with people to recording their experiences, in forms that feel honest to them, so that they can be shared with future generations. Some projects develop into photo portraits and short films, while others look like long-form interviews, community documentation, or behind-the-scenes archival work.
Studio Birdhaus also offers archive and digitization services.
I work with families, artists, and community organizations to:
- Digitize and stabilize artwork (2-d & 3-d works) & older media (VHS, MiniDV, cassettes, photos...)
- Help organize and contextualize personal or community archives
- Build simple, usable systems so materials can be shared, taught with, or revisited
Studio Birdhaus loves to work within communities and histories that are not always well-resourced or well-documented. This focus remains on access, care, and consent, making sure that people stay connected to their own materials and have a say in how their stories are handled and shared.
This work is about keeping stories close to the people who lived them. In my practice, my creative work and archival work are not separate: the same care that goes into a portrait or video also goes into logging family and community archives by logging analog tapes, backing up a drive, or helping someone make sense of the boxes in their studio.
If you’re an individual, family, or organization looking to document, preserve, or share your story,
Studio Birdhaus is here to help.
Memory Worker: M.A. Oral History, Columbia University // M.L.I.S., Syracuse University
Brandon Perdomo is an interdisciplinary artist from Great Kills, Staten Island; fascinated with self-reflection and alterity, which serves as the engines for his work in photography, videography, performance, sculpture, installation, and socially engaged intervention. Perdomo’s work in archives, and public & oral history interviewing as a social practice instigates a reclamation of narrative power, with focus toward /testimonyofthebody.
He proud grandchild to Colombians, Sephardic Honduran/Mayans, and Greeks.
Perdomo received his B.S. in Sensory Studies & Application (interdisciplinary self-design) from SUNY Fredonia, and M.A. in Oral History from Columbia University, where he was awarded a Diversity Project Grant from the Office of Academic Diversity & Inclusion for his program “Lift Every Voice: Racism, Power, and Activism in the Arts: A Conversation with Angeline Butler”.
Perdomo is a three-time awardee of the DCA Art Fund Grant (Staten Island Arts, NYC). He has presented work rooted in creative exhibitions and conversation focused on interdisciplinary storytelling and /testimonyofthebody to the European Social Sciences History Conference - University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL), Farmingdale State College, The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg, Fl), the Oral History Association, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center, among others. Further project participation and collaborations have brought him to HERE Arts Center in New York, and CAVE home of LEIMAY in Brooklyn.
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