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Abinadi Meza
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His sound art, videos, and installations have been presented at venues across North America and Europe, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dunaújváros, Hungary. FILE Festival, São Paulo, Brazil. Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Team Titanic, Berlin. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
FACT, Liverpool. Louisiana Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. And Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Portugal.
Meza uses ephemeral media, especially sound, to create transformative spaces and explore relationships regarding individuals and social context. As a young artist Meza studied Butoh with master teachers from Japan, Europe and South America.
Later he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls (1999).
An Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (2004). And an Master of Architecture degree from Service Civil International-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles (2009). Meza is currently 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.
Meza uses sound "as material..it’s plastic – you can smear it, stretch it, sharpen lieutenant.I treat it like clay."
Salt Lake City Film Festival (United States)
Aesthetica Short Film Festival (United Kingdom)
Sheffield Fringe: Film At The Intersection of Art & Documentary (United Kingdom)
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Germany)
Simultan Festival (Romania)
Dingle International Film Festival (Ireland)
Videomedeja Festival (Serbia)
Atlanta Film Festival (United States)
New Filmmakers New York (United States)
Cannes Art Film Festival (France)
Wellington Underground Film Festival (New Zealand)
Athens International Film + Video Festival (United States)
Noordelijk Film Festival (Netherlands).
