Cristina Jimenez^CO/QC

Cristina Jimenez is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, working at the intersection of theatre, performance art, and digital practice. With a foundation in performing arts and a specialization in acting, her work draws on psychogeography, expanded theatre, gamification, interactivity, and digital media to create experiences that challenge the boundaries between stage and street, performer and audience, public and private.

At the heart of her practice is a sustained inquiry into participatory encounter. Drawing on extensive experience in street theatre, physical theatre, and in situ performance, she situates her projects in the relational space between performers and audiences, where presence, proximity, and embodiment become the primary materials. Her current research-creation focuses on one-to-one performances as a site for exploring how intimacy is constructed and felt through different modes of embodiment. Central to this work is a feminist engagement with women's occupation of public space, and with the forms of gathering and techno-gathering that emerge when those spaces are reclaimed and reimagined.

Jimenez is a PhD candidate in the Individualized program at Concordia University, and is affiliated with the Hexagram Network, Milieux-LeParc, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Acts of Listening Lab (ALLab), Faculty of Media Studies (FMS), and SenseLab-3e. She is also a board member of Teesri Duniya Theatre. Her work has toured across Europe and the Americas.