01 ABOUT
Who I am as an artist?
My work is very much concerned about interacting with people - not only with artists, but with all kind and from all cultural backgrounds -. It's important for me in my project and I believe it nurtures my artworks in actual arts, in general.
At this moment, I work in a long-term project called Metamorphemes: Foundations and Perspectives of a Construction (that includes painting, sculpture, installation, music performance and architectural artistic design), very much influenced by architecture. Metamorphemes is a metaphor of an artpiece being as an architectural construction and its transformation in order to include old and new elements at different moments and times, rather than just growing. It's also a metaphor of ourselves being as an artpiece. This project was first officially exhibited as a performance-installation at the Arts Place subway station, during The Culture Days in Montreal 2017, in Canada, but it started earlier with artworks done in Hessen, in Amsterdam and in New York, before going to Montreal. Now it has done a long way, after working and showcasing it in different countries: in Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, the US, Canada, Italy, Serbia, North Ireland, the UK so far and currently Switzerland
After working and showcasing the project out from Canada, close to sixteen months in different parts of Venice and Mestre (Italy), in Belgrade (Serbia), close to Alkmaar (the Netherlands) and in Oaxaca (Mexico) I went back to Belgrade some more months for the winter, worked some months in Belfast (North Ireland), then in Edinburgh, in London, in the South Coast of Oaxaca and in the city of same name, to continue now my work some weeks on METAMORPHEMES in Basel - a city that I used to visit oft after I made a film in the city 19 years ago, as I lived in Strasbourg -.
I've been working in very different geographical spaces with different architectural and historical realities, meeting some artists and discussing with all kind of people, while getting familiar to those regions and getting different perspectives and points of view. For some of the people I met "art" was not a familiar word, for some others, it was frequent to attend art exhibitions. All this has, with no doubt, shaped my artworks and my project and, as mentioned before, it was aimed for me while working in METAMORPHEMES. I wanted to build a project that would be strongly related to those places and somehow also to their people. METAMORPHEMES has happily initiated a dialogue with those different people I've been meeting through it, I believe.
My actual arts project includes different moments of site-specific exhibitions, installations and on stage performances (with music). Because of the nature of METAMORPHEMES, the exhibitions will take place in different kind of sites, as well as the performances.
So, now in Basel, Switzerland I am working on new pieces and looking for the right places to exhibit the artworks.
I am still looking for a big musician or artist who would like to make the mecenas to sponsor the recording of the music (probably Van Morrison would be interested) or a label, from Ireland, from England or from somewhere else to produce it.
(https://www.facebook.com/TaniaMujicaMota/posts/586346946082962).
I am also doing other new artworks, as well as looking for the places to showcase the project: galleries, museums, concert spaces for the performances, theaters, etc.
Feel free to contact me to talk about possible places, production support and collaborations!
My statement
For me, art is an experience and a way of doing (alone and also in the relationship I build with the others, in the way I do my artworks and projects). I am concerned for the way I do my projects and how I show them once they are done, as well as for the collaborations taking place all along the process, in order to try to propose the "universes" I see through them.
After Second World War we questioned deeply the way art was done, overall in Germany, since there had been a misuse in the comprehension and practice of arts, starting by the exclusion of many artists being replaced by others that were "too busy" to realize they were also concerned for what went on. In the 1960’s somehow we came to wonder if art was the reflection of our societies, but we didn't go forward...
I have the impression that art, today, has to be reconsidered as central in society, and also in the way it’s been approached and thought. It has to give us not just an aesthetic foundation on what’s beauty and what is not but, in my way of seeing it, in the contrary: it has to open us to new perspectives, so we can widen our own point of view.
My art approach deals with interpretation and re-interpretation: from my point of view, what’s accepted in a moment may not be in another one, or in another context or space. My artworks deal with these questions constantly, but in a non-stressed-self-criticism. Mistakes are then accepted as part of the process, but the final intention is to better the artpieces, as one would do in an architectural construction normally, rather than hiding the mistakes.
Working in different parts of Venice and Mestre was very interesting to me for METAMORPHEMES, since I could see how different buildings were treated architecturally differently depending on the materials they had originally and, being the buildings so different from one another in the style and architectural answer, one sees that different backgrounds intervened in their architectural landscapes. So these last enriched them and gave them a harmony, what gives the city a magnificent taste of permanent renewal, even though those buildings are so old!
Continuing my work in different parts from Belgrade (Serbia) has later been very stimulating, since the architectural and social context and backgrounds were very contrasting, but the city had some common points with Montreal (Canada) and with Venice and Mestre (Italy), even though those similarities are not so evident.
The visual and music work done in the Netherlands, close to Alkmaar, was later also very constructive: I worked in a complete new geographical and architectural contexte with different architectural and social contextes. In Oaxaca (Mexico) - one of the Mexican cities I grew up in - and in the Oaxacan Coast I worked several months and visited some familiar places that have changed much over the time; seeing the new architectural appearance of some places there and working last year for the first time in Belfast (North Ireland), in Edinburgh and in London (for several months also) has given me another impression on the visual and human relationships to different landspaces. Now coming back to Basel, where the city uses the tramways - rather than the subway as one of the main transports in the city center - has changed my experience of the city in comparition to the years I frequented it, since I was oft driven in car through the city.
These architectural and historical experiences have been very contrasting, but seeing different regions with varied vegetation and social contexts has contributed to shape my artworks. The way in which the people have appreciated METAMORPHEMES and the connections I've established among those places through my artworks, while being in touch with those persons in different realities for some months has also brought a better appreciation on the things that are relevant to them and that I consider in my work.
METAMORPHEMES
METAMORPHEMES: Foundations And Perspectives Of A Construction, as mentioned before, is an actual arts long-term project, influenced by architecture and including paintings, sculptures, installation and music and on stage performances. It was first showcased at the Culture Days in Montreal 2017 (Canada) as a performance-installation that took place at the Place of Arts. It is also a metaphor of an artpiece being as an architectural construction and its transformation in order to include old and new elements at different moments and times, rather than just growing. It's also a metaphor of ourselves being as an artpiece.
METAMORPHEMES is a project radical in its methods and in its composition. It questions arts in their forms, since they intend to be universal, but they seem to forget oft to affirm the universality of the human value. METAMORPHEMES questions the ideal of universality that has characterized arts and on which contemporary art is founded, to propose an actual arts practice founded in an intention to come back to the foundations and motivations of art themselves. It questions the myths of what we´ve called oft in the books "traditions" to come back to the diversity of influences in art. These lasts are effectively universal, because otherwise, by an effect of “too much memory” here and “too little” (as Paul Ricoeur said once) or no memory there, we finish by "making" something else that that we intended, by revendicating the "universality of art”. If it’s not a humanistic and existential affirmation in its diversity and in its need of individuality and one agrees to give place to this diversity of influences and voices, art loses its main reason to exist. This intention is the base of Metamorphemes: an affirmation of the need of complementarity at the center of the artwork, in order to create a constructive dynamic and taking art as a human necessity to think about its possibilities rather than to a unique possibility.
You can take a look at some of TMM music here:
© TANIA MUJICA-MOTA \ Visual, music and on stage actual artist and author
02 PORTFOLIO
03 BIOGRAFÍA
Tania Mujica-Mota sees her artistic work in general as a communicative interaction (to form-ulate), rather than as a language (ready-made). Her musical work seems like a semi-figurative canvas, and that's not a danger. She found music as she was 6 years old and joined the National Music School in Mexico the following year. Having to take a break 4 years later, Tania Mujica-Mota found it again, as a young adult, to hold it and use it in her artistic work. Influenced by her independent storytelling, her photography work, and her work as an author and vocalist with some musicians, She later also took up an instrument in a practice that allowed her to add a new voice to her own: the "animated guitar," with which Tania Mujica-Mota worked in a duo many times... But what characterizes Tania Mujica-Mota's work in actual music, and in actual arts in general, is, above all, her unorthodox and unsecular narrative tones. Musically illiterate, She uses her existential and auditory wandering to compose sound and imaginative canvases, which summon historical tones with diverse human geographies, in a quite radical and contemporary approach. Music is, after all, Tania Mujica-Mota thinks, a sequel of paint strokes and what they tell us...
Tania Mujica-Mota tends to see her work as a sum of partitions intended to compose more complex works.
To listen to a little of her music (please take a set of headphones):
E x h i b i t i o n s – r e s i d e n c e s i n v i s u a l a n d a c t u a l a r t
Oaxaca, Mex 2023 Sep-Jan Center Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Puebla, Mex 2023 Jul-Aug Center Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Oaxacan Coast, MX 2023 Apr-Jun Coast Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Yuc, MX 2023 Mar-Apr Tulum Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Porto, POR 2023 Jan-Mar Center Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Matosinhos, POR2022 Dic-Jan 2023 Center Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Muttenz, SW 2022 Oct Muttenz Exhibition Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Muttenz, SW 2022 Oct Muttenz Creation Residency Pushing The Limits and The Landscapes
Basel, SW 2022 16 Sep Andrea's Platz "Angel od Affe" Concert Metamorphemes: "Unhidden"
Basel, SW 2022 June-Sep St L. Grenze-Basilea (North) Creation Residency Limited Landscapes and Portraits
Basel, SW 2022 May-June Spalenring Creation Residency Basel (South) Renavated Visions of Landscapes
Basel, SW 2022 25 May Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Performance When We Don't Say "We"
Oaxaca, Mx 2022 Mar-May City Center Creation Residency Urban and Semirural Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxaca, Mx 2022 Mar Etla Creation Residency Semirural Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxacan Coast, Mx 2022 Feb-Mar Coast Creation Residency Litoral Semirural Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxacan Coast, Mx 2022 Dic-Feb Coast Creation Residency Litoral Semirural Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxacan Coast, Mx 2021 Oct-Dic Coast Creation Residency Litoral Semirural Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxaca, Mx 2021 Sep 26th "Expendio Cafe 1411" Music Performance More Urban Landscapes and Portraits
Oaxaca, Mx 2021 Sep-Oct Oaxaca Center Creation Residency More Urban Landscapes and Portraits
London, UK 2021 Aug-Sep Bethnal Green Creation Residency Urban Landscapes and Portraits
Ámsterdam, NL 2021 Aug Amsterdam (South) Creation Residency Netherlands' Portraits and Imagined Landscapes
London, UK 2021 June-Aug Hammersmith (West) Creation Residency London's Portraits and Imagined Landscapes
London, UK 2021 May-June Hackney (Norest) Creation Residency London's Imagined Landscapes
London, UK 2021 May Hyde Park Creation Residendy London's Imagined Landscapes
Edinburgh, Sch 2021 May Coates Creation Residency Edinburgh's Imagined Landscapes and Characters
London, UK 2021 Apr-May South Kensington Creation Residency London's Imagined Landscapes
Edinburgh, Sch 2021 Mar-Abr Bonnington Creation Residency Edinburgh's Imagined Landscapes
Belfast, NI 2021 Mar Belfast East Creation Residency Belfast's Imagined Landscapes
Belfast, NI 2021 Feb-Mar Belfast West Creation Residency Belfast's Imagined Landscapes
Venecia, IT 2021 Ene-Feb Mestre, Venezia Video de installation More Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Venecia, IT 2021 Ene-Feb Mestre, Venezia Creation Residency More Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Belgrado, SRB 2020-21 Dic-Ene Danubio, Novi Belgrade Creation Residency More Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Oaxaca, MX 2020 Dic Etla Temporary Studio Creation Residency More Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Oaxaca, MX 2020 Nov-Dic Oaxaca Center Creation Residency Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Oaxaca, MX 2020 Nov 11-20 Oaxaca Center Retrospective Exhibition Perspectives and Diversified Landscapes
Oaxaca, MX 2020 Oct-Nov Studio La Cascada Roof Video-installation More Futuriste Perspectives in Landscapes
Oaxaca, MX 2020 Sep-Nov Studio La Cascada Creation Residency More Futuriste Perspectives in Landscapes
Venecia, IT 2020 7-8 Sep Arsenale Venezia Studio Exhibition Metamorphemes: landscapes and latine costes
Venecia, IT 2020 Aug-Sep Arsenale, Venezia Creation Residency Metamorphemes: landscapes and latine costes
Norte NL 2020 Jul-Aug Alkmaar Creation Residency Metamorphemes : septentrional landscapes
Venecia, IT 2020 Junio-Jul Rialto Venezia Creation Residency Metamorphemes: urbane landscapes
Belgrado, SRB 2020 Mayo-junio Danube, Novi Belgrade Creation Residency Metamorphemes : landscapes in Belgrade
Belgrado, SRB 2020 Mayo Studio in Belgrade Exhibition Metamorphemes : landscapes in Belgrade
Belgrade, SRB 2020 May Studio in Belgrade Installation Metamorphemes: plants installation
Belgrado, SRB 2020 Feb.-May Zemun, West of Belgrade Creation Residency Metamorphemes : landscapes in the otherside
Rome, IT 2019 2 de diciembre Palazzo Ferrajoli, L'arte si mostra, Rome Metamorphemes : perspectives
Belgrado, SRB 2019 Oct-Feb. Novi Beograd–Galenika Creation Residency Metamorphemes : perspectives
Venecia, IT 2019- Jul-Oct Creation Residency Cannaregio-Mestre Metamorphemas : perspectives
Venecia, IT 2019- 26 July Ca'Zanardi, Anima Mundi Fest Lyric Performance Metamorphemes : perspectives
Venecia, IT 2019- Juil.-Sept. Ca'Zanardi, Anima Mundi Fest Exhibition Metamorphemes : perspectives
Montreal, CA 2019-13 Jan Le Balattou Lyric Performance Metamorphemes : perspectives, no. 3 bis
Montreal, CA 2018-26 Oct. Foire R, R&R au MAI Lyric Performance Metamorphemes : perspectives, no. 3
Montreal, CA 2018-2 June Le Mile End s'Articule Fest. Lyric Performance Text, voice and actual music
Montreal, CA 2018 April 27th L’Alizé, Para-culture Fest. Lyric Performance Text, voice and actual music
Montreal, CA 2018 April-July Montreal Intercultural Arts Residence in actual arts Perspective of a construction
Montreal, CA 2017 Oct. Arts Place - Days of Culture Performance-installation Foundations of a construction
Paris- Lyon, FR 2014-17 Facebook Book- Installation The Seasons Of TimeLA, USA 2017 Feb Cinemas USA, UK, CAN..., 2017 Watercolors series' used METAMORPHEMES's in The Beauty and The Beast film
Lyon, 2016 Web Interactive Media release Sita’s Real Journey, no. 1 (pilot)
Lyon, 2015-16 Oct - Feb M. Guinois's recording Studio Creation and Recording Sita’s Real Journey, no. 1 (pilot)
Lyon, FR March 2016 Meat's Shop Croix Rousse Installation of designed bags «Art, supporters and detractors »
Michoacan 2016 Museum Xylography on paper « And the moon came out again... »
Zacatecas 2016 Museum Xylography on paper « And the moon came out again... »
Mexico 2015 National Inst. of Fine Arts Engraving Coll. Exhibition « And the moon came out again... »
Les Lilas, FR 2014 Fev 6th Le Triton Amplified Music Concert Evening PIC93 #11, dir. Whipples and Orti
Les Lilas, FR 2014 Jan-Fev 6th Le Triton Music Residency Amplified music, dir. C. Whipples
Paris, FR 2013 Cristine Martin's in Paris 11th Projection art video The Out-Of-Focus
Strasbourg, FR 2011-13 H. Bertsch's studio Creation and recording Impressions with guitarist Herve Bertsch
Poitiers, FR, 2006 Henri Langlois Film Fest. Residency – "Filming Music" Prod: S. Jourdain
Poitiers, FR, 2006 Henri Langlois Film Fest. Screening "Catherine", coll. film
Poitiers, FR, 2006 ICOMTEC Projection of the film Sacre Jesus (6 min.), experimental
Poitiers, FR 2005 Open air Poitiers Filming and Musique de film Sacre Jesus (6 min.),experimental
Mexico, MX 1993 Museo Ex Teresa Creation Residency « Feeding », Dir. and concept. : R. Edwards
Mexico, Mexico, MX 1993 Museo Ex Teresa Performance « Feeding », Dir. and concept. : R. Edwards
P r e s s a n d p u b l i c r e l e a s e
2019 Rome, IT, Dec 3rd Arte e Poesia Radio program Recording and transmission reported to February 2020, date to be communicated. (cancelled).
2019 IT, Dec 2nd National Sky 899 Channel & 86 One TV Lazio Exhibition resume transmission to be communicated
2019 Rome, IT, Dec 2nd Palazzo Ferrajoli Exhibition & public discussion on the painters" exposed works
2019 UK Nov 20th Wotisart Art Magazine No. 32 Bio and artworks publication
2017 USA Disney´s "Beauty and the Beast" Film Use of my Monochrome series (2015) of my Studio in Lyon
O t h e r v i s u a l a n d w r i t i n g p r o j e c t s
2015-18 Serial monochrome and colour paintings (diverse techniques: It..., Carrots’ Stories, Constraint, Story-Thirty).
2015 A Thousand And One Stories, auto fiction (INEDITED) book. Looking for a publisher house.
2008 More Than One Life: script for cinema.
M a i n S t o r y t e l l i n g P r o j e c t s
2017 Sita's Real Journey https://soundcloud.com/levraivoyagedesita (Multi-Media Artwork).
2013 Poetic Art-video Out of focus...
2010-2011 Short film A man looking at someone else, inspired by the More Than One Life script.Featuring : Pascale Malinowski and Hervé Conroy.
2009- Writing of The World Tour, with a writing grant of the Grand Est Cultural Agency. It became Sita's Real Journey
2007-2010 Writing of the script More Than One Life.
D o c u m e n t a r y f i l m s
2004-2005 Under The Dress (47 min.), documentary, on the training and internship of the young future judges in the French Justice system.
2003 Basel Fasnacht (86 min..), documentary, French and German versions.
2002-2003 Portrait René Noël- painter (2 min.).
A r t i s t i c C o l l e c t i v es
Member of the Canadian New Musics Network. the Canada Council for the Arts, the SOCAN (society of composers authors and music publishers of Canada).
2018-currently Out Of The Frame, founder, artistic collaborations.
2011-13 Un monde écléctique (U.M.E.) - Co-founder and member of the interdisciplinary collective in
Paris, FR.
2007-2009 No Name Collective – Work with non-professional actors and actress. Writing and play of More Than One Life – Pascale Malinowski, Hervé Conroy et Valérie Zinck, in Strasbourg, FR.
A c a d e m i c E x p e r i e n c e
2005-2011 Exterior Intervenant for the Master in Cinema at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the University of Strasbourg.
E d u c a t i o n
2009 Thesis researches in Cinema and Anthropology: Tania MM's Semiotics of Culture's Approach and German Cinema from the years 1960 to 1983.
Scholarships from DAAD, OFAJ and CIERA: Residencies in Berlin and Frankfurt to visit the film archives of Filmmuseum in Frankfurt and in Berlin. Articles, conferences and round tables on cinema.
2005 Master’s in Creative Documentary Film, at the ICOMTEC of the University of Poitiers (training taking place today in Angouleme).
2004 Master in Ethnology at the University of Strasbourg. "The Forgotten Image: The Case of Basel's Carnival" With a documentary film in French and German Versions.
2003 University Diploma in Cinema and Audiovisual (DUCAV), at the University of Strasbourg.
2001 Master’s in Psychology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). ‘’Woman’’ and ‘’maternity’’ in the game of social construction.
2001 Musical and Classical Dance Training (four years) at the National School of Music and at the Choreography Workshop of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).
L a n g u a g e p r o f i l e Spanish – English - German – Italian
04 CONTACT
For inquiries about the artworks, METAMORPHEMES and other projects, invitations, intellectual rights on the music, collaborations, exhibition proposals, acquisitions of an artwork or a print, interviews, photos or press releases, payments of authorship rights or request for authorization for artistic use or for general information or email:
taninamujicamota@gmail.com, with a copy to tania.mujica.mota@gmail.com or tmm.metamorphemes@gmail.com
Postal address to contact, to write, to send invitations or postcards to
Tania Mújica-Mota:
Oficina de Correos de México, (Oficina Centro)
Av. Independencia no. 2, a un costado
de la Catedral
Apartado Postal 276,
68000 Oaxaca, Oax.
MEXICO
Phone: +52 998 75 98 738 in Mexico currently.
+52 951 394 6809 (Whatsapp application only)
Facebook project Website:
https://www.facebook.com/TaniaMujicaMota/
Other links to TMM music:
20.04.2021 Metamorphemes: Performance no. 7.05... - Tania Mujica Mota | Facebook
Eventually:
+39 32 9214 - 2144 in Italy,
+38 164 4477785 in Serbia,
+31 65 747 8273 in The Netherlands.
+1 (514) 583 - 3004, in Canada.