We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Josefina Barreix a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Josefina , thanks for joining us today. I’m sure there have been days where the challenges of being an artist or creative force you to think about what it would be like to just have a regular job. When’s the last time you felt that way? Did you have any insights from the experience?
For me it is very difficult to have another job, although it is true that creativity has helped to make jobs that are more automatic more inspiring and fun. But I did need, at one point in my life, to take that quantum leap and give myself 100% to creativity and give way to all the expressions that my being was asking for.
Josefina , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
I continue to discover my artistic spectrum through experience. Between my interest in sound and technological development research, I have been able to explore a very diverse universe where I have met very inspiring professionals and artists. I am part of a collective of women who are dedicated to promote knowledge about aerospace and the Universe in Barcelona, and I am also part of a Punk Riot Girl band that this month finished an extensive summer tour that concluded at the historic Roskilde Festival, sharing Line Up with great figures such as Kim Gordon, PJ Harvey, Charlie XCX, among other artists, who inspire and feed back the group creativity of the project, even if they do not make similar music, in some cases.
What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?
Realizing that in the community of artists (or in groups of people who perform daily actions connected to their emotions), it is normal to not be normal and to be able to see beyond that, to learn that we are not all characters written in a script and that human personalities are very complex and varied. Acceptance is important to be able to work as a group and raise the energy of creation.
What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?
We have already seen how science fiction and science have managed to collaborate mutually during all these times, I think it is important to give space to the diversity of points of view. Many times in areas where people must adapt to more rigid systems, sometimes there is also a hunger for curiosity for the inexplicable, the intangible and the unimaginable, there are times when only poetry or a well-told story can serve as a processor for our brain to understand those images so abstract in the first instance. Creativity opens paths to new languages and realities with less restraints, I feel that there is a more punk and more open permission to play. I feel that it is important that flexibility and rigidity converse from time to time… after all, everything is in motion all the time.
Contact Info:
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Image Credits
1- Aparicio Paula
2- Maria x Riot
3- Maria x Riot