Carmina Escobar

Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, improviser, sound, and intermedia artist from Mexico City currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work focuses on the voice/body, and their interrelations to physical, social, and memory spaces. She seeks to convey the emotional, experiential, and relational dimensions of sound through performance, installation, video, and interdisciplinary forms. Escobar’s projects are collaborative, intermedia, site-responsive, improvisational, and involve new technologies. She has explored the capabilities of her voice, developing a wide range of vocal techniques to challenge our understandings of musicality, gender, queerness, race, the spoken word, and the foundations of human communication. As an immigrant from Mexico, the key to Escobar’s practice is the exploration of interstitial states of being—suspensions between worlds, politics, and borders.

Escobar has presented her work in Mexico, Cuba, Europe, USA, and Canada in festivals and venues such as PST:LA/LA, Fabrica de Arte (HVN), CTM Festival, RedCat, The Broad, The Kitchen, among many others. Escobar has been an artist in residence in Montalvo, STEIM, Binaural, OMI, Electroacoustic Music Studio in Krakow, Fonoteca NacionalMX, Indexical, The MacDowell Residency, and BEMIS (Fall2021). Carmina has received three Endowment Of The Arts in Mexico, the USArtist International Award with the project Estamos Ensemble, Master Scholarship of NALAC, the 2020 FCA Artist award in Music/Sound, and the NPN 2020 Creation Fund Artists with the project SHAMANA DE CABARET. She is co-founder of LIMINAR ensemble; HowlSpace radical/experimental pedagogical voicehub, and BOSS WITCH, an artistic production company focused on the interconnection of experimental scenic works, sound/video art, interdisciplinary/intermedia works within natural landscapes.