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Abinadi Meza

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; MAXXI; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaújváros; FILE Festival; Crossroads Festival, SF Cinematheque; Walker Art Center; Antimatter, Victoria BC; Irish Museum of Modern Art; FACT, Liverpool; La Casa Encendida; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Mexic-Arte Museum; New Orleans Film Festival; and Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Meza primarily uses ephemeral, precarious, site-specific and salvaged materials in his work.

Sound artist Abinadi Meza performing at Sinel de Cordes Palace, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, 2013
Sound performance, Austin, Texas (USA) 2012

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 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.[4] In 2021 his book Manual For a Future Desert was published by Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy.[5]

Selected filmography edit

  • 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


Selected Sound Performances/Concerts edit

  • 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)

References edit

  1. ^ "Abinadi Meza". Experimental Brasil. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  2. ^ "A Space For Live Art: Culture Programme of the European Commission". Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  3. ^ Debating the Darkness: Talking Film with Abinadi Meza (NY Arts Magazine)
  4. ^ "UH Art Professor Abinadi Meza Receives Prestigious Rome Prize". ssl.uh.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
  5. ^ "Manual for a Future Desert — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. Retrieved 2023-07-10.

External links edit

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