Cristina Lizarraga
ARTIST’S PROFILE
Cristina Lizarraga, (Bilbao, 1992). Writer singer and keyboardist in the band Belako, gathers in Quítame La Culpa (Pikara Magazine, 2020) her own experiences and her girl friends’ to prove how gender psychological violence operates in love and sex relationships. She leads research from this release to several talks, workshops and exchanges of testimonies. She has also written, directed and presented a namesake podcast with Radio Consonni (soon to be published) as well as a sequel about the guilt in friendships. She also wrote the article Ekain (Pikara Magazine, 2020), and the letter against sexism in musical press Qué Bien Tocas Para Ser Una Tía (El País, 2016).
RESIDENCY AT LA MOISSIE
During my time at the Moissie Creative Residency, I got the chance to redirect my essay about guilt in friendships. This is the second part of a fanzine I published in 2020 in Spain with Pikara Magazine (a feminist journal and editorial) and from which I have created a podcast with consonni radio. The space and surroundings were key to focus on the writing but also to get distracted from your own work (everything is beautiful out there) in order to be with yourself and create true connections with your partners. I couldn’t have asked for a better context and the book is completely influenced by this experience, that was above all about friendship for me, and many pages will have proof of that.
The emotional experience that la Moissie has brought me goes far beyond work, it is about sisterhood with my fellow artists and the best host ever, a month of sharing, enjoying and feeling every single feeling circulating through my body in a key moment of my life. Can’t be thankful enough.