Interdisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher.
Úrsula Sancristóbal
Department of Cultural and Musical Studies
Treball final de màster de flamencologia
Història de la música audiovisual
- PhD in Musicology and Art History. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Excellent Cum Laude qualification. Extraordinary Doctoral Award.
- Senior recorder player. Institute of Ancient Music, Scuola Civica Milano, Italy. Outstanding rating.
- Master in musicology and cultural heritage, Università degli studi di Milano. Qualification 110 e lode (maximum qualification).
- Master in Spanish music, University of Valladolid. Grade 10 cum laude.
- Degree in Music. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. 1st place in graduate promotion.
Other certificates:
- Practice Based Research in Arts. Online course. University of Stanford.
Artistic research; music and sound in contemporary audiovisual creation (video art, cinema and new media); music and sound in contemporary art (performance); feminisms in artistic practice.
Books
López Cano, Rubén; Úrsula San Cristóbal. 2014. Investigación artística en música. Problemas, métodos, paradigmas, experiencias y modelos. ESMuC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) and FONCA (Fondo de cultura de Mexico)
Articles
San Cristóbal, Úrsula. 2024. [en prensa] “Más allá del yo: el concepto de espacio autobiográfico en la cultura audiovisual contemporánea” BRAC, Barcelona Research Art Creation 12(1)
San Cristóbal, Úrsula. 2022. “No se escucha, pero se siente: Ubiquitous listening en el arte contemporáneo” Cuadernos de Arte de la Universidad de Granada 53
San Cristóbal, Úrsula. 2021. “Cuerpo, límites y autobiografía: Una aproximación a lo sonoro en la obra de Marina Abramović“. En Actas del II Congreso Internacional Estéticas Híbridas de la Imagen en Movimiento: Identidad y Patrimonio. 20 -22 octubre 2021. Universitat Politècnica de València
López Cano, Rubén; Úrsula San Cristóbal.2021. “Investigación artística en música: cuatro escenas y un modelo para la investigación formativa“. Quodlibet 74(2): 87-116
San Cristóbal, Úrsula 2018. “¿Acción, puesta en escena, evento o construcción audiovisual? Una breve introducción al concepto de performance en humanidades y en música”. Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas 13 (1)
López Cano, Rubén; Úrsula San Cristóbal. 2014. “Entre “musicología encubierta” y “mi obra es mi investigación”: mapeando el espacio de la investigación artística en música”. A contratiempo Revista de música y cultura 23.
Ursula San Cristóbal (ed). 2014. “Vocal Performance: New Perspectives in the Study of Vocal Music Tradition”.TRANS – Transcultural Music Review (18)
Úrsula San Cristóbal is an interdisciplinary artist. Her work proposes a meeting point between experimental music, the artisan practices of weaving and calligraphy, and the digital practices of animation and audiovisual editing. It focuses on the body, sound and the moving image, addressing diverse issues such as gender, mental health, eroticism, affections and the fantastical imagination linked to the disturbing and the strange.
She has been a guest artist at the Videoformes digital art festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and artist-in-residence at Fabra i Coats (Barcelona) and Nau Estruch (Sabadell).
Her video art works have been presented in different festivals in Europe and Latin America and she has received several recognitions, among which the special mention of the jury at the festival of intermediate art Ibrida 2023 (Forlì, Italy) stands out.
She has collaborated as a musician and video artist with the philosophy workshop at Sala Beckett in Barcelona and gives seminars on artistic research and interdisciplinary creation in different institutions in Spain, Europe and Latin America.
09/2023 – to date:
Substitute teacher at ESMUC. Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. Audiovisual Music History subject. Management of final degree and master's theses.
02/2017 – to date:
Full professor at Taller de Músic. Higher School of Musical Studies. Audiovisual Communication subjects, Musical thought, Research methodologies for pedagogy I and II, Management of final degree projects.
09/2021 – 12/2021:
Substitute teacher at ESMUC. Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. Audiovisual Music History subject.
02/2016 – 07/2017:
Teacher at ESERP. Business School of Barcelona, Spain. Subject "Contemporary aesthetic movements" of the degree in Communication (in collaboration with UNIR).