Marina Menéndez-Pidal

publieke ruimte, proces, performance, Grafiek, Design

Marina Menéndez-Pidal is a designer/artist currently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is Spanish American who was born in Madrid, Spain in 1993 and raised in the Silicon Valley in California, USA. She received her MA in Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2022. Previously, she has worked as a designer at Dubberly Design Office and PIN–UP. In Rotterdam, she is interested in developing a nightwalking practice and starting a collaborative art studio with artist Benjamin Niznik. She makes work at night alone, with friends, artists and strangers. This practice is sustained by a curiosity about the night and the mundane. She loves learning, growing and evolving.

**baby, i have your back** - baby, i have your back 2024–2025 mediums: performance, posters, website and motion graphics marina’s role: concept, content, organization, graphic design and art direction photography: aline papenheim walking partner: max oosterholt costume designer: laura fernández antolín the goal is to highlight the complexities faced by women and feminine presenting people in public spaces at night, and share these experiences with transwomen, women, feminine presenting people and locals. https://marinamp.info/baby.html

**we have kept our secret long enough** - we have kept our secret long enough 2023 mediums: performance, posters, document and website 30 minutes marina’s role: concept, content, organization, graphic design and art direction dance artist: anastasia bezruchko sound artist: ola lanko photography: matilde stolfa filmmaker: clara gustafsson costume designer: laura fernández antolín this work dives into the joys, dreams, pains and discomforts of femininity and walking in high heels. the aim with this work is to provide a space where women and feminine people can freely walk on the streets no matter the time of day. https://marinamp.info/long_enough.html

**pretty in pink on a dark street** - pretty in pink on a dark street 2022 mediums: performance, posters and programs marina’s role: concept, content, organization, graphic design and art direction photography: peter cox filmmaker: clara gustafsson dance artist: anastasia bezruchko the design project builds on the potential of walking as a research method, using this method to find out how those that self identify as women and feminine-presenting people walk alone at night. the research process spanned over a two-month period with each walk taking about an hour at different times of the night. the delay of the research process, the unexpected thoughts arising from the surroundings while on the walk, and the almost aimless, in-between state of the walk all reinforce the benefits this research method can offer a designer and they are reflected in the live performance which has resulted from it. topics within the performance include posture, pace, behaviour, encounters, lighting, and attire when walking alone at night. https://marinamp.info/pretty.html

**new directions** - new directions book 2022 print 260 x 225 mm marina’s role: graphic design new directions considers how walking is a method for research in design. walking as a research method offers a designer slowness, repetition, rhythm, distraction, space, and familiarity. walking is an emerging research method in design: information and landscape designers have used walking as a way to contemplate the surroundings and the self by going alone or with others. there are multiple strategies for using walking as a research method: writing, mapping, filming, image-making, archiving, sensing, speculating, and listening. walking is a research method because it is a way for a designer to question, investigate, and interpret a surrounding as well as exploring and understanding the self. https://marinamp.info/new_directions.html

Baby I have Your Back

Datum: 01-03-2024 t/m 01-02-2025

Locatie: Rotterdam

In samenwerking met: Photographer Aline Papenheim and Costume Designer Laura Fernandez Antolin

Baby, I Have Your Back is a performance about embracing femininity and walking in public spaces at night collaboratively. The goal is to highlight the complexities faced by women and feminine presenting people in public spaces.

https://marinamp.info/baby.html

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