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

Abinadi Meza (born 1977 in Austin, Texas) is an American visual artist, sound artist, and experimental filmmaker whose works seek to create "other spaces" for viewers or listeners to inhabit, with a focus on transformation, spatial politics, and poetics. [1] His films, sound art, performances, and installations have been presented at venues across North America, South America and Europe,[2] including Anthology Film Archives, New York; MAXXI, Rome, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaújváros, Hungary; FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil; Crossroads Festival, SF Cinematheque; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Antimatter, Victoria BC; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; FACT, Liverpool; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin; and Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal. Meza uses ephemeral, precarious, or site-relational materials such as glass, radio waves, text, found footage, and salvaged materials to create transformative spaces or objects, and explore relationships regarding individuals and social context. As a young artist Meza studied Butoh with master teachers from Japan, Europe and South America.[3] Later he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls (1999); a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2004); and a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles (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

  • 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 Film Awards

  • Best Experimental, Kiez Berlin Film Festival, 2023
  • Honorable Mention, FilmArte Festival, Madrid, 2023
  • Jury Favorite, A Lyte in the Dark Film Festival, Princeton, New Jersey, 2023
  • Best Screenplay (Nominee), Mirror Mountain Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
  • Best Experimental Abstraction (Finalist), Experimental Brasil, 2023
  • Honorable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, 2023
  • Best International, Under the Radar Festival, Vienna, 2022
  • Honorable Mention, Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, 2022
  • Best Editing, Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival, Manfredonia, Italy, 2022
  • Best Experimental, Sipontum Arthouse International Film Festival, Manfredonia, Italy, 2022

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)

References

  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.
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