Amanda Gutiérrez

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• Concordia University, Artist and PhD Student

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2022

  Amanda Gutiérrez, Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater (Mexico City). Gutiérrez uses sound and performance art to investigate how these aural conditions affect everyday life. Gutierrez is actively advocating listening practices while being one of the board of directors of the World Listening Project, formerly working with The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University in the Arts and Humanities program and a research assistant at lab  PULSE and the Acts of Listening Lab.

  ISEA2020

  Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of home, belonging, and cultural identity by bringing into focus details of everyday practices whose ordinary status makes it particularly hard for us to notice their key role in defining who we are. Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez uses a range of media such as sound art and performance art to investigate how these conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities. Approaching these questions from immigrants’ perspectives continues to be of special interest to Gutiérrez, who completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently elaborating on the academic dimension of her work. She has held numerous art residencies at FACT, Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, and her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. A recipient of a grant from the National System of Art Creators, in Mexico, Gutiérrez recently was the recipient of residencies at the New York Camera Club, Harvestworks, and MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick, New York.

Website:

• http://www.amandagutierrez.net/eng/bio-statement/

Last Known Location:

• Mexico City, Mexico