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1.full Bio 2017.compressed
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e-mail: yocasta@poetic.com
Studies:
Diplome in Egiptology, Centro de Estudios Sophia, Mexico City, 2017
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Erwin Wurm class. Specialization multimedia. Vienna, 2007- 2011
Universität für Bildende Kunst Vienna, 2007
Bachelor in fine arts: ENPEG “La Esmeralda” México City, 2000- 2005
Master studies in Psychoanalysis: CEPSIMAC: Centro de Estudios Psicoanalíticos Mexicano A.C. 2002-2005
Diplome in Dramatic Art: Puebla University: BUAP. Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Facultad de Filosofía
y Letras. Mexico, 1995
Performance:
Sound Art and Visual Exploration Encounter: Academia de San Carlos with Bruno Bresani. Mexico City, 2013.
Fringe Festival Taipei: Jackie & Jacko in Wounderland. Performance, Objects and Installation. Taipei, Taiwan, 2011
Dogpig Art: Jackie & Jacko in Wounderland. Kaohsiung,Taiwan, 2011
Bruegel Performance over Mariahilferstrasse with Lindsay Seers, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Kiss to Nauman Blink to Pina... Solo Performance Dance. Berlin, Germany, 2011
ZOOMATIC and Blind Love Performance by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís. Angewandte Open House. Vienna,
Austria, 2011
Krinzinger Gallery, Don’t Have Sex With Your Ex curated by Peter Nagy. Performance: Oh! These Viennese Nights!
Vienna, 2010
You are my lung, Performance Serie: Amor-taja-dos by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís. Atrio Centro Cultural,
Mexico City, 2010
Welcome to Egypt (Kairo Mit Alessa Esteban). Performance on the streets of Cairo, with Angelika Loderer. Cairo,
Egypt, 2010
Prater Sauna Nightclub Shower Show by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria,
2010
Peep Box Ottankring Festival, by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria, 2009
Cats in a Cage Roof Intervention, by the Twisted Sisters: Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Mexico City, 2009
Public Intervention, for the University of Applied Arts (Angewandte Kunst) Class Erwin Wurm, by the Twisted Sisters:
Alessa Esteban and Ursula Rivera. Vienna, Austria, 2007
No Performance Needed, with Sergio Solís and Rolando Martínez. Schmiede07: We Are. Salzburg Austria, 2007.
Special Projects:
Art Project Manager: Platonic Dust exhibition, workshop and residency for Austrian Artist Angelika Loderer:
ENPEG Esmeralda host for workshop and working space, Austrian Embassy for flight funding and Quinto Piso host for
exhibition space. Mexico City, 2017.
Art Project Manager: KINOKABARET MEXICO CITY at La Quiñonera. Support by Foro Cultural de la embajada de
Austria en México, Prince Carl Foundation, La Quiñonera and Casa Serra. With invited artists from France, Austria,
Uruguay, Hungary, California and Mexico. Mexico City, 2013, 2016.
Art Project Manager: T-shArt fashion show at Casa del Lago bosque de Chapultepec. Support by the Austrian
Embassy in Mexico, UNAM University, Red Bull energy drink, Absolut Vodka and Samsung electronics. Mexico City,
2008
Art Project Manager: The Crave Project: No Performance Needed artistic exchange between Mexico City, and
Austria. Festival Schmiede07:We Are. Support of the schmiede festival, CONACULTA, SRE and INBA. Hallein,
Salzburg, 2007
Director: ArTwisted Projects: Promotion and Organization of art and cultural events with artists from Europe and
Mexico. 2007
Art Project Manager: Vice Versa- Artist Exchange, Austrian artists in Casa Vecina, Short art residency. Support by
the Austrian Embassy in Mexico, Casa Vecina, Hotel Virreyes and the cultural corridor of the Centre of Mexico City.
Mexico, 2006
Artist Exchange: art promotion and multicultural event organization between Austria and Mexico City, 2006
Schmiede06 – Transfer, playground of ideas and work-in-progress festival, 20-30 September, Pernerinsel Hallein,
Painted Bilboards: “But mother, I want to ruin my life” and “I want everything, and I want it NOW!” Salzburg, Austria,
2006
La Perrera cultural Space, Exhibition and open sell of t-shirts-artist readymade. Fashion Show. Puebla, Mexico. 2005.
International workshops:
Itto Morita, Goo Say Ten: Intensive Butoh Dance. Sapporo, Japan, 2014
Lindsay Seers: Invited artist from London. Vienna, Austria, 2010-2011
Elfie Semotan and Erwin Wurm: Art Show Performance & Photos. Vienna, Austria, 2011
Peter Nagy: Invited Gallery director from Berlin and New Dehli. Vienna, Austria, 2010
Marc Olivier Wahler: “Improve Your Schizophrenic Quotient” Vienna, Austria, 2010
Mutok & Sergio Solìs: Intensive Butoh Dance workshops. La Fábrica in Querétaro, Mexico; ENAT Mexico; WUK
Vienna, 2009-2011.
Maria Inés García Canal: “Violence and Eroticism”, CNA. Mexico, 2003
Miguel Ventura: Drawing Summer class: ENPEG: “La Esmeralda” Mexico, 2002
Production Design, Art Design. CNA, Mexico, 2001-2002
Francisco Hernàndez: Express poetry workshop. CNA. Mexico, 2000
Course on Film and Painting in the age of Avant-garde: Cineteca Nacional. Mexico, 1998
Poetry workshop: Casa del Escritor de Cancún Qroo. Mexico,1997
Literary Critic workshop: Casa del Escritor de Cancún Qroo. Mexico,1997
1st National Congress of Dramatic Art Investigation: UDLA Puebla. Asociación Mexicana de Investigación
Teatral. Puebla, Mexico, 1995
http://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/blogDE/alessa-
esteban-current-artist-in-residence-at-mz-baltazars-
laboratory-1st-july-31st-august-2013/
Invited by the Cultural Institute of the Mexican Embassy in Vienna, we gave a Performance
workshop about Public Space Occupation, Making interventions in the city like the subway
station at Praterstr. Ubahn and Urban Loritz Platz with architect Doris Klein me, and Sergio
Solís, Vienna, Austria, 2011. We presented I’m not Tracey Emin by occupying the center of
Urban Loritz Platz with a camping tent pretending to live there for a day and ordering a
pizza to this public location, activating the space as a useful area.
Artist in Residency at the Terrace Environment Artist Workshop in Shitiping for the Pangcah
tribe, supported by the University of Hualien, Taiwan. 2011.
Here we were invited to work with the Pangcah tribe, formed by Taiwanese aborigines
Artists. DaDaDa exhibition in Artobia Gallery.
Artist in Residency at Bamboo Curtain Studio. Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.
Place for staying was granted while we prepared the Performance Jackie & Jacko for the
Fringe festival in Taipei, presented in Wolong 29 cultural center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Artist in Residency with the Wurm class, for the project: “City Rules” in the Studios
Lichtenberg in Berlin, Germany, 2011. Supported by the Angewandte Kunst: University of
Applied Arts of Vienna. Accommodation and Production was granted. During this time I
made several Performances public interventions around the Lichtenberg district.
ZOOMATIC and Blind Love Performance by Alessa Esteban and Sergio Solís.
Angewandte Open House. And Photoshooting by Elfie Semotan. Vienna, Austria, 2011
These two performances were realized during the Elfie Semotan and Erwin Wurm lecture
and worshop: Runways held in the Angewandte Kunst in December 2010.
Artist in Residency and workshop granted by the Angewandte Kunst: University of Applied
Arts Vienna, for the Photography Expanded Now! Project by curator Amer Abbas, hosting
CIC Contemporary Image Center. Cairo Egypt, 2009. During this residency I made several
Performances and Public Interventions. And later the results were shown in Vienna at the
exhibition: Expanded Egypted, Praterstr. 15 kunstraum.
Grant for money budget to realize the curatorial project: T-shArt fashion show, hosted by
the Art Foundation: FundaciónBilbao Arte. All travel expenses, accommodation, production,
and event was given. During this time we exhibited Tshirts made by designers and artists
from Austria, Mexico and Spain in a performative runaway event. Bilbao Spain. 2008
National Institute for The Arts of Mexico: INBA, National Institute for Culture and Arts:
CONACULTA, and External Relations: SRE, supported us with a grant for international
transportation and production to realize the Multicultural and multidisciplinary project: The
Crave Project: No Performance Needed for the Schmiede07:We are Art Festival in Hallein.
Being a short residency to produce a big Performance event for the Festival in collaboration
with Austrian Artists. Salzburg, Austria, 2007.
Artist in Residency in Künstlerhaus Land Salzburg Studio, granted by National Funds for
the Arts: FONCA during this period of time I realized the Cannibal Love Series and open
studios: Twisted Sisters and Cannibal Love, in the great city of Salzburg, Austria, 2005
Scholarship for foreign studies. This Grant was given for three years by the Cultural
Mexican Institution of Support for the National Arts: FONCA; to study the specialized
studies of sculpture and Multimedia with Erwin Wurm at the Angewandte Kunst: University
of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. 2008-2009-2010.
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