Cristina Maldonado, MA
Associate Lecturer
Cristina lectures for the Fine Art Experimental Media programme. Outside of teaching, her creative output sits at the intersection of mixed reality, participatory and relational art, expanded and live cinema, site-specific installations, performance, and experimental theatre.
For the last two decades, she has researched the implications of mediation, manipulation of perception, embodiment, and strangership. Recently, she is working on performative writing and interdisciplinary projects to research how performance can be used as a tool for activating collective knowledge.
Cristina has performed across the world in countries such as the U.S.A., Denmark, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Brazil, Canada, Armenia, Romania, Hungary and Lithuania. In 2020, Cristina was selected to enter the SNCA - National System of Art Creators in Mexico and selected as an Associate Artist of In-Situ European Platform for Artistic Creations in Public Spaces.
Education
Teesside University, GB — Master of Arts
Professional Activities
2019 - present — KALD/DAMU, Lecturer & Mentor of the Master’s programme of Directing Devised and Object Theatre
Research & Creative Practice
Selected Projects:
2021 – PREMIERE - Continuum Presencial. Telematic performance. Coproduction of National University of Mexico UNAM and Teren Czech art platform.
2021 – Premiere - This person does not NOT exist. Telematic performance. In co-production with Teren Czech art platform and the art platform Unseen online platform and web archive.
2020 – Studies Anthropology of Art. LATIR: Research, project development, educational programs and publications, with a cross-disciplinary perspective.
2019 – audiovisual performance in the Czech showcase "Mala Inventura", Festival Prague.
2019 – VR performance in "Desocupacao", Atelier RE.AL, Lisbon.
2019 – audiovisual performance "Telekinetic Assaul", film live intervention in the International Festival Theatre der Dinge, Berlin.
Awards & Lectures:
2020 - 2023 – Member of the National System of Creators. Experimental Audiovisual Media. FONCA. México.
2018 – National Fund for Culture and Arts Grant. Scenic creators. Interdisciplinary.
2017 – Participation as a speaker in the Latin American Colloquium for Research on Dance Practices and Research of the National Dance Coordination INBA.
2016 – Honourable mention in the video dance exhibition of Agite and Sirva during the En- INBA National Dance Center for the piece Atarashi hii.
