BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla a multidisciplinary artist and Co-Director of Liquid Architecture She has recently completed her Doctoral research titled: Whose Myth? The Echo and the Diaspora, at Monash University. Recent written works include: Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland. Records of Displacement in Disclaimer online Journal, Speaking Surfaces, St Paul’s gallery, Aukland University of Technology. Recently she has created sound works for Westspace Offsite, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in collaboration with AM Kanngieser and for the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney in collaboration with Claudia Nicholson. Quintanilla has presented at the Sound System Outernational Conference in Naples, Italy and has been a resident artist at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada. Quintanilla is a soundsystem operator of General Feelings Sound which has recently been a part of Heavy Congress at the Rising Festival, Melbourne. She was in 2021 part of the Makeshift program as part of Artshouse, Melbourne. Quintanilla has received the Australian Post Graduate Award for her research, Vic Arts and Creative Victoria grants and the NAVA Sainsbury Sculpture Prize. Quintanilla has recently edited the small publication: The Space in which I Fit Won’t Exist Until I make it featuring the writings of various radio, sound and music voices in Melbourne and Sydney Australia.
Lucreccia Quintanilla's work is concerned with sound and the collective. At the core of her ongoing project is sound as a mode of knowledge transference and with this in mind Quintanilla creates, sound works, written works, sculptural and painting works. In recent years she is interested in the potential of sound and amplification. She has constructed a soundsystem speaker stack as a point of departure for thinking through culture, multiplicity, collaboration, joy, resilience, dancing, music/sound experimentation.
Contact:
email: lucrecia.quintanilla8@gmail.com