Abinadi Meza Explained
Abinadi Meza (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American visual artist, sound artist, and experimental filmmaker whose works focus on transformation, spatial politics, and poetics.[1] His films, sound art, performances, and installations have been presented at[2] Anthology Film Archives, New York; Brooklyn Film Festival, New York; MAXXI, Rome; Matadero Madrid; Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Quito; Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; SF Cinematheque, San Francisco; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; American Academy in Rome; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; FACT, Liverpool; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; New Orleans Film Festival; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Meza primarily uses ephemeral, precarious, site-specific and salvaged materials in his work. As a young artist Meza studied Butoh with teachers from Japan, Europe and South America.[3] Later he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa, (1999); a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota (2004); and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture(2009). Meza's family background is Native American, Portuguese, Moroccan, and Russian. His creative and scholarly work focuses on transformative acts, interstitial states, and psychodynamic complexities. [4]
Meza is a professor of Interdisciplinary Practices and Emerging Forms in the School of Art at the University of Houston. In 2014 he was awarded a Rome Prize in Visual Art by the American Academy in Rome.[5] In 2021 his book Manual For a Future Desert was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy.[6]
Selected filmography
- Snow, 2001
- All Light is Late, 2001
- Sonnambula, 2001
- Marco Polo, 2002
- The City in Which I Find You, 2002
- Double Blind, 2004
- The Prisoner, 2005
- Seeing is Dreaming, 2006
- Silence, 2006
- Left Songs, 2006
- Beacon, 2007
- Sound Sweep, 2009
- Like Snow Falling, 2010
- News From Home, 2012
- Black Box Recorder, 2012
- Hour Between Dog and Wolf, 2013
- Melencholia, 2013
- The Dream Surplus I, 2013
- Ghost Station, 2014
- Air, Condition, 2014
- Hand By Hand, 2015
- Nocturne, 2015
- The Dream Surplus II, 2017
- Monuments in Reverse, 2017
- The Dream Surplus III, 2019
- Time Crystals, 2021
- Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See, 2023
- Umbrella Music, 2023
- Tlaloc (Lines Drawn in Water), 2023
- Parangolé, 2023
Selected Sound Performances/Concerts
- American Academy in Rome
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art (Toronto)
- Ende Tymes Festival of Noise & Experimental Liberation (Brooklyn)
- FILE Festival/Hipersonica (São Paulo)
- Helicotrema Festival (Italy)
- Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Portugal)
- Matadero Madrid
- MAXXI Muesum (Rome)
- O' (Milan)
- Radio Kinesonus (Tokyo)
- Radiophrenia (Glasgow)
- Radius FM (Chicago)
- Scaniaparken (Mälmo)
- Sonorities Festival (Belfast)
- Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Abinadi Meza . 2023-07-10 . Experimental Brasil . en.
- Web site: A Space For Live Art: Culture Programme of the European Commission . 2011-08-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120328103214/http://www.aspaceforliveart.org/?page=event&id=1291#/event.more/1291/Read_more . 2012-03-28 . dead .
- http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=14778 Debating the Darkness: Talking Film with Abinadi Meza (NY Arts Magazine)
- Web site: Conversación con Abinadi Meza . 12 May 2024 .
- Web site: UH Art Professor Abinadi Meza Receives Prestigious Rome Prize . 2023-06-14 . ssl.uh.edu . en.
- Web site: Manual for a Future Desert — Mousse Magazine and Publishing . 2023-07-10 . www.moussemagazine.it . en-US.