{"id":11363,"date":"2021-05-17T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=11363"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:09:27","slug":"cristina-mejias-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/cristina-mejias-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Mej\u00edas G\u00f3mez"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9430\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11363-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/CristinaMejiasGomez.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/CristinaMejiasGomez.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/CristinaMejiasGomez.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cristina-mejias.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11381 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PICTURE_CMEJIAS-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Cristina Mej\u00edas<\/a> (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1986) We have become accustomed to preconceiving the academic world as the legitimate container and transmitter of knowledge. We have the luxury of being able to forget something because we can always retrieve it from books. But here it is not enough to simply dry a leaf and store it in a herbarium, because a living plant is <em>bitten<\/em> by the air, and it is important that this happens. Libraries need to be driven by our desire in order to take on life. The practice of orality cuts across bodies. The listener listens.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Mej\u00edas\u2019 work is predicated on familiar narrations and storytelling, challenging the strict, traditional methods used to construct history by means of a linear narrative. What has brought us here to the present is founded upon the strata of History and stories that predate us. The creation of something regarded as new always begins with seizing a <em>murmuring<\/em> that triggers the story.<\/p>\n<p>Mej\u00edas has a degree in Fine Arts from UEM (Madrid) and NCAD (Dublin) and a Master\u2019s in Research in Art and Creation from UCM (Madrid). After several years living in Berlin, now she lives and works in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has recently been exhibited individually in Art centers such as Centro P\u00e1rraga (Murcia, SP)- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centroparraga.es\/servlet\/s.Sl?sit=c,914,m,3898,i,1&amp;r=Portal-46567-DETALLE_EVENTO\"><em>A un tiempo. Unos higos y un c\u00e1ntaro<\/em><\/a><em> , <\/em>Museum of Jaen and Museum of Cadiz (Jaen\/C\u00e1diz, SP)- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juntadeandalucia.es\/cultura\/redportales\/iniciarte\/actividades\/what-cannot-be-recovered-can-least-be-reenacted-0?language=en\"><em>For What Cannot Be Recovered Can at Least Be Reenacted<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona, SP)- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueprojectfoundation.org\/en\/exhibitions\/item\/you-can-t-leave-a-fingerprint-on-stone?category_id=1\"><em>You Can&#8217;t Leave Fingerprints on Stone<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>a project born thanks to the collaboration with archaeologist and performer <a href=\"http:\/\/performance-archaeology.com\/\">Efthimis Theou<\/a>-, and the Contemporary Art Museum from Maracaibo (Maracaibo, VZ)- <a href=\"https:\/\/culturaesve.org.ve\/cristina-mejias-tejer-y-contar-en-el-maczul-24-03-maracaibo\/\"><em>Tejer y contar<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions in Art institutions such as Tabakalera Donostia- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabakalera.eus\/en\/estudiotik-5-years-creation\"><em>Estudiotik at<\/em><\/a> (San Sebasti\u00e1n, SP), CA2M- <a href=\"https:\/\/edicion.ca2m.org\/en\/node\/3661\"><em>Colecci\u00f3n XX<\/em><\/a> (Madrid), La Casa Encedida- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacasaencendida.es\/exposiciones\/visita-guiada-virtual-generacion-2020-11172\"><em>Generaci\u00f3n 2020<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacasaencendida.es\/en\/exhibitions\/ineditos-2020-11573\"><em>Things That Never Happened but Have Always Existed<\/em><\/a> (Madrid, SP), SCAN Projects-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scan-arte.com\/where-water-rumbles-metalloids\"><em>Where water Rumbles<\/em><\/a> (London, UK), CentroCentro (Madrid, SP), C3A-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c3a.es\/exposiciones-actuales\/detalle\/-\/asset_publisher\/pQ0PxnELFHyj\/content\/tocar-la-tierra\"><em>Touching Ground<\/em><\/a> (Cordoba, SP), Fundaci\u00f3n Mendoza- <a href=\"https:\/\/culturaesve.org.ve\/1410-0912-caracas-artes-visuales-correspondencias-de-ultramar\/\"><em>Correspondencias de Ultramar #4 Ana Navas y Cristina Mej\u00edas<\/em><\/a> (Caracas, VZ), Artoth\u00e8que-<a href=\"https:\/\/emilieflory.fr\/Ceux-qui-nous-lient\"><em>Ceux qui nous lient<\/em><\/a> (Bordeaux, FR) or Tea-<a href=\"https:\/\/teatenerife.es\/index.php\/exposicion\/la-tierra-tiembla\/164\"><em>La tierra tiembla<\/em><\/a> (Tenerife, SP).\u00a0 Along with her personal artistic work, currently she is collaborating with artist and performer V\u00edctor Colmenero and their work has been seen or will be seen in places such as Volc\u00e1nica Festival (Guadalajara, MX), La Capilla Theatre and Proyecto H (Mexico City, MX) or Pradillo Theatre (Madrid, SP).<\/p>\n<p>She has recently won a number of awards and grants, including Generaci\u00f3n 2020, Blueproject Foundation, VEGAP XXIII, Comunidad de Madrid|Estampa award or Iniciarte. Over the course of the last months, she has been artist in residence at Pico do Ref\u00fagio (Azores, PT), Hangar Lisboa (Lisboa, PT), C3A (Cordoba, SP), Matadero Madrid (Madrid, SP), Ateliers dos Coruch\u00e9us (Lisboa, PT), Tabakalera Donostia (San Sebasti\u00e1n, PT) and MACZUL (Maracaibo, VZ)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0The book mentioned was by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13650.The_Wave_in_the_Mind\"><em>Ursula K. Leguin: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11382\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11382 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1366&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You Can\u2019t Leave Fingerprints on Stone, solo exhibition at Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona, SP, 2020). Photo by Roberto Ruiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11383\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11383 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A un tiempo. Unos higos y un c\u00e1ntaro, solo exhibition at Centro P\u00e1rraga (Murcia, SP, 2020). Curated by Ana Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n. Photo courtesy of Centro P\u00e1rraga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11384\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3.jpg?resize=640%2C471&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C753&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C565&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1130&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1506&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C512&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C786&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?resize=571%2C420&amp;ssl=1 571w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/CristinaMejiasGomez.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listCristina Mej\u00edas (Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, 1986) We have become accustomed to preconceiving the academic world as the legitimate container and transmitter of knowledge. 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