rosa mesa: Entrevista/Interview Spanish Television TVC

ABOUT THE ARTIST

rosa mesa was born in Canary Islands and immigrate to Toronto, Canada in 1995. In 1996 she started her studies at the OCAD graduating in 2002. She has lived in Kenia, the West Indies, Thailand, Canada, Spain, Switzerland and Germany having presently her base of work in Europe.

rosa is a multidisplinary artist whose practice extend to installations, performance, video and public interventions. Her works are a response to her surroundings that become dissected and reconstructed in a new narrative that exposes whatever that triggers her in amusement or disgust.

Her practice takes often an observant and humoristic approach. Her pieces explore areas of semiotics and the art practice, identity, nomadism, migration, feminism and the hybrid and changing state of contemporary culture. In the last years her practice of performance in the public spaces has began to develop toward what she choses to describe as social engaged art defining it as an art practice that believes that art is a motor for social chance as it creates spaces of debate, creativity and health.

Today her work covers video and sound explorations, drawing, performance and public interventions.

Artists as Esther Ferrer, Nancy Spero, Adrian Piper, Coco Fusco, Dora García, Joseph Buoeys, Oliver Ressler...

She has exhibited in Spain, Canada, Serbia, Corea, Japan, Switzerland, Germany , Brazil, France, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.

rosa mesa has worked with the german artist Thomas Proffe since 2005 and they get together every year to work in projects often in the realm of installations and public interventions. Through these encounters the artists search for enriching their practice through collaborative works as well as to explore the multidisciplinary art practice.

rosa mesa is also since 2010 and with the colombian artist Maria Linares part of the daily services art platform, a Berlin project based on the exploration of the artist in the public spaces and in conection to the diverse social issues that affect todays contemporary art culture.

rosa mesa´s interests have today a lot to do with what she consideres an emergency state of thought and her works are in continual search of new ways to deal with a ever-mutating contemporary culture. She abandoned formal approaches to the art, keeping only a little space to deal with her adiction to drawing that it gets transformed more and more in mural pieces of ephimeral character.

rosa mesa her work as aperformer is charectirized by not rehersal and not repetition of the pieces in a more than probable futile attemp to scape the object.

Her interest in reaching the audience is also explore mainly through the performance and public intervention mediums, she has also created several blog projects to contact with the internet world.

PERFORMANCE

PERFORMANCES AND PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS

2019 "Colour blind" Museo Perez Galos", comisariado por Vicky Galvan, Spain

2018 “Drift”, public intervention, sponsored by CAAM, Gran Canaria, Spain.

2018 “The forgotten ones”, performance, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, CAAM. Spain.

2018 “All the invisble things that connect us” TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes), Spain

2017 “Supremacía del color”, performance, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Spain

2017 “Let me be the ruler”, performance, Museo Pérez Galdós, Spain

2016 “Borradas” performance, part of the Proyect “Cuerpos”, Museo Colón. Spain
2016 “Missing”, public intervention. Inertia, ran off, Hamilton, Canada.

2016 “Dark secret”, public intervention. Bienal Miradas de Mujer 2016, Toronto Canada.

2015 “The king is dead long live to the king” performance Artscape, Toronto, Canada

2015 “Dialogs with my baggage”, performance, Artscape, FADO, LEGS TOO, Toronto, Canada.

2015 “El futuro está en tus manos” performance, Galería Universidad de Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain

2014 “Genero género”, performance, Galería Saro León, Spain.

2012 “Hablando con Pepa” public intervention, Gran Canaria, Spain.

2012 “La poesía de la ley”, performance, Gran Canaria, Spain

2012 “Lo que el viento se llevó” performance Teatro Victor Jara, Gran Canaria , Spain

2011 Highlight, International Latin Video Festival, Toronto, Canada

2011 Madrid Procesos 11, daily letters, intervención pública. Madrid, premio ortogado por AVAM. 2011 Neukölln 48 Stunden, Dalily Services, intervención pública, Berlin.

2011 “Stained”, Kurt forever, Sant Denis, Paris, comisariado por Marion De Luget.

2010 Festival Cuerpo a Cuerpo, comisariado por Pedro Déniz

2010 Festival AccionMAD, “...toll for you” comisariado por Nieves Correa e Hilario Alvarez

2010 “Secrets and Puppets”, Lisboa. Festival Epipiderm, comisariado por Nuno Oliveira.

2009 “Proyecto Circo”, colateral X Bienal de La Habana. Fesival Internacional de Performance

2008 “Investors Corner”, PROGR, Bern

2008 “Encounters of an allien girl”, 1, Ittingen, Suiza.

2008 “The Vanishing Ink”, Zentrum 5, Bern.

2008 “Vanishin Ink” performed in Sao Paulo by Performola, Brasil.

2008 “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle rules the World” presentado en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Bogota Colombia, Galería Santa Fe Bogota Colombia, Casa Tres Patios Medellin Colombia, Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo Santa Marta Colombia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Caracas Venezuela y en la Fundación Nelson Garrido - nomasdecinco Caracas Venezuela.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015 “Hide outs”, dibujo en pared, Museo Pérez Galdós, Espana

2014 “Gula”, video performance, proyección, Espacio Digital, Espana.

2013 “Cartografías erradas”, dibujo en pared, studio, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Espana.

2012 Premio Fundación Waja, “I am water” video piece, Bogotá, Colombia.

2012 “Lo que el viento se llevó”, instalación. Teatro Victor Jara, Gran Canaria

2011 “Festival Cuerpo y Mujer”, Perú, Lima. Comisariado por María M.

2010 MECA, presentación de Audiovisuales, Almería, Spain.

2010 Festival de Video de La Habana, Proyecto Circo, comisariado por Ada Azor.

2009 Galerie Periferia, Ittingen, Switzerland.

2008 “Frontieres”, Museum d´art et d´histoire de Neuchatel, Switzerland,

2008 “Alleluhiah”, Lokal.INT, Biel, Switzerland, comisariado por Chri F.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Blanco y negro, instalación, Galería Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2014 “Avec le temps”, video y dibujo, Casa de los Coroneles, Espana.

2014 “Sombras”, video, dibujo y performance, Galería Saro león, Espana.

2012 “La poesía de la ley”, performance, Gran Canaria

2012 Highlight Alucine Film and Video Festival. “Tired of counting”

2009 Festival Internacional de Video, Alucine. Toronto, Canada.

2008 “Visible Walls”, installation comisariado por Beate Engel, Bern.

2008 “When all the querubins went to hell”, LokalInt, Switzerland,comisariado por Chri F.

PRIZES

2008 Residency, Visarte, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

2008 Residency, PROGR, Berna, Switzerland.

2008 Beca de Producción del Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2009 Travel Grant, Canada Art Council

2010 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea, Gobierno de Canarias.

2010 Beca del Senado de Berlin

2011 Nominación premio del Jurado y del Público, Festival 48 Horas Berlin.

2011 Nominación Beca Septenio.

2011 Premio Madrid Procesos 2011

2011 Beca de viaje, Canarias Crea.

2012 Beca estudio. Centro de Arte LA Regenta.

2013 Beca estudio. Centro de Arte LA Regenta.

2014 Premio Nacional a las Buenas Prácticas Ministerio de Igualdad.

2015 Beca de viaje Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno

2016 Beca de viaje Centro Atlántico de Art Moderno

CONFERENCES

Art and Technology, Universidad de las palmas, 2018.

Jornadas Mujeres y Cultura, Gobierno de Canarias, 2017
Jornadas SURCA, Surcando hacia la igualdad, 2017.
Conferencia Internacional de la asociación canadiense de arteterapia, 2016.
I Congreso Nacional de arteterapia Asociación Andaluza de Arteterapia, 2016.
Talleres y charlas proyecto “Corrientes internas” 2015-2016.
Charla Cabildo, Jornadas sobre la intervención en violencia de género. 2014.
Taller de performance, jornadas sobre violencia de género, Moya, 2014.
II Congreso Nacional de arteterapia FEAPA
Taller de arteterapia, jornadas sobre violencia de género, Moya, 2013
Congreso internacional de Intervención Psicosocial, Arte Social y Arteterapia de Murcia, 2012.
II Congreso de Terapias Creativas de Zaragoza, 2011.
Taller Universidad de Verano de Maspalomas, “Introducción al arteterapia”España, 2009-2010.
I Congreso de arte terapia, Universidad de Girona, 2009.
Taller Universidad de Maspalomas, “Acercamientos al arteterapia” 2009
Mesa Redonda/Conferencia, Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, España, 2010.
Conferencia en el Centro de Arte La Regenta, 2009, España.
Conferencia en el Centro de Arte La Regenta, 2009, España.
Conferencia en el centro de ayuda a la inmigración Zentrum 5, Berna, 2008, Suiza.
Conferencia en el Museo de Historia de Neuchatel, 2008, Suiza.
Conferencia en el Centro de Arte La Regenta, 2005
Conferencia en el Centro de estudios de la Universidad de Belgrado. 2004.
Conferencia en A-Space Gallery, Canada 2003

PARTICIPATE

- You can participate each last wednesday of the month in the project Habalndo con Pepa, as an invited artist or as a lawyer. The project take place at Parque Santa Catalina, from 5 to 8 pm. www.daliservices.net

-From the project:"Ich habe noch einen koffer in Berlin" WRITE YOUR STORY_Guestbook http://www.rosamesaneukoelln.blogspot.com/ You can leave a story or anecdote about the city in this blog.

-From the project :"Secrets and Puppets" GIVE ME YOUR SECRET dametusecreto@hotmail.com http://www.rosamesasecretos.blogspot.com/ I invite you to give me a secret, something you have not told anyone to be publish in a blog in the next month. I will myself write seven stories I have never told anyone.

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