TORRES MENDIETA Laila Anaid

(b. 1986) Mexican-born artist, researcher, and independent curator. Holds a BA in Visual Arts from Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, UNAM (2012), a MA in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (2015), and a Master HES-SO in Critical Curatorial and Cybermedia Studies from HEAD Geneve (2019). Her research methodology burrows from Theory-Fiction, Aztec Philosophy and Cybernetics, exploring materialist socio-political frameworks, historical epistemic brutality, and processes of creative entanglement. In her praxis, she focuses on lecture-performance, experimental video, and sonic landscapes. Her research is part of collective projects such as “traveling communique” a roaming academy and its multiple iterations in Serbia, Ethiopia, and the Netherlands, “PLUS PLUS ++: Radical Hospitality” at the black box Theater in Norway, and “Les indiennes” featured at LIYD gallery/cultural center in Geneva, Switzerland, and FRI-Art through Plattform20, in Fribourg, Switzerland. Her solo work and research have been present in latitudes such as The Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Mexico. She has been the recipient of the ArtEZ Scholarship to Non-EU Students (2013-2015), the Fundacion JUMEX grant for Foreign Studies (2013-205), the FONCA- CONACYT Scholarship for Studies in Foreign Countries (2017-2019) and the research fellowship at MMCA in South Korea (2021). She is currently a P.h.D candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong as a HKPF fellow, under the guidance of Professor Yuk Hui. (2022-)