My best concert ever

The band I went to see is called Crystal Castles in 2010, and it was definitely the best concert experience I've ever had. The location was La Cúpula theater at O'Higgins park. I went with a friend of mine, but we got lost between the audience, there was so many people, it was crazy.
Crystal Castles are an electronic/experimental band, they're from Canada, composed by Ethan Kath and Edith Frances and they've been one of my favorite bands since 2008 when I met them searching music through the internet.
I recall buying the ticket by myself with my own money so it was more satisfying. The crowd was really euphoric since the beginning of the gig, it was a frenetic wave dragging me through the theater.
The concert lasted for 2 hours, and they've played all the best songs, I even touched the hand of Alice Glass (the vocalist on that moment, because she later left the band) and I went crazy with that.
I still have the ticket from that moment as a memorabilia. I highly recommend them.
I'll leave their SoundCloud profile and two photos, one with the original vocalist and the other with the actual one.

https://soundcloud.com/crystal-castles

Ethan Kath and Alice Glass

Ethan Kath and Edith Frances

A country I would like to visit

Among my favorite countries is Germany, to visit this place is one of my top plans in the future. I would like to live there (in Berlin, its capital, in fact) and work in one of the many art galleries or museums around the city.
Germany is known for its multicultural diversity, knowledge heritage and the vast and rich artistic and architectural legacy that fascinates me a lot.
Their language is definitely a challenge I'm going to take in the near future seriously, I've already made some advances on that, I've been learning its alphabet and it has been quite understandable so far.
I think I'm going to try to go through an university scholarship.
One of my favorite exhibitions comes from the city of Kassel, where the documenta contemporary art expo is made since 1955, every five years at summer.
I would like to work at museum curatorship, theoretical researches and art residencies besides exhibiting my own artworks. Apart from that, I would like to continue my studies and major at Aesthetics, Art History and Philosophy at one of their universities.

The Fridericianum museum where the documenta exhibition is made. Kassel, Germany.

Movies and series

My favorite movie by far is called Lilja 4-Ever, it was released in 2002. Its director was Lukas Moodysson, and it tells the story of a girl called Lilja Michailova, who lives in an undetermined soviet country which is the place where the movie develops.
Lilja is a little girl, who is abandoned by her mother and is almost left for dead alone under the tutelage of one of her aunts, who treats her very bad. She is angry and sad, but ingenuous about the people around her. She's friend with a boy called Volodya who is her companion in the most turbulent moments in the film.
She then hangs out with a friend who introduces her to the world of prostitution and sex trafficking, which is the main concept in the film. How prostitution and being alone merges into a spiral of self destruction that affects the protagonist.
The movie is 109 minutes long and its main language is russian and it has been awarded by several film festivals.
I like this movie because it shows a very bleak photography with a soviet/russian aesthetics that pleases me very much. The story is crude and it shows a very tormenting context for the characters, and how they cope with all that suffering.

Lilja and Volodya

A country I'd like to visit

I have so many places I would like to visit on my mind right now. But definitely, my favorite one is Russia. I love their language primarily, it amazes me so much. And I'm currently studying it on my own.

We can't deny their fantastic exquisite culture and its unique artistic legacy. For me, personally, and as a visual artist, the Suprematist avant garde movement is by far one of the most important aesthetic remains in art history, overall for the abstraction of the image.

Well, Russia is a big country haha, they've been notoriously one of the prominent points of the Socialist and Communist agenda, we can tell it is a haven for that culture in particular. We can talk about Lenin and Stalin for hours, but we are not doing this now. The Russian Tsardom reign and the subsequent revolution, they're all historic stuff coming from there.

I want to visit Moscow, and live there. I would like to work in Museum Curation or something else but in a museum, totally. And obviously, continue my studies in Aesthetics or Art Philosophy and Semiotics. I want to be a student forever, knowledge seeking is one of my personality features.

Oh, I almost forgot it, the bleak coldness that this country has is beautiful and enjoyable for me, and it's something I want to endure when I got there.

 TOMSK, RUSSIA

MOSCOW FINANCIAL DISTRICT, RUSSIA

Why I chose my program?

When I was a little girl I wanted to study Visual Arts, Philosophy, History, Music or Psychology, I liked all of those fields, eventually I choose Arts (specifically Visual Arts) because I thought that this career kind of encompasses all of the subjects I mentioned before.
All my life I needed Music attached right to my mind, I thought of it as the better company to my daily life, so when I was 17 I began to practice Flute, and when the time of the career decision came, Music was definitely one of the options, besides, I think it's very important in the construction of one's identity.
I choose Arts because of the reasons I mentioned before, and because I've been drawing and painting since I was very little (between 4 or 5 years old), so I thought at the moment of the career selection, that it was the right option.
When I was 17, I worked at a supermarket, so I had my savings to start financing my incoming college life (I had the help of my parents' money too), so I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina to study Visual Arts, I went to Universidad de Buenos Aires first, then I left it for a better one, to Universidad Nacional de las Artes. I spent 5 years on that country, until 2017 that I returned to Santiago, Chile.
I decided to continue my studies in Chile, because the economic crisis situation in Argentina became something very unsustainable and damaging to my finances and my physical and psychological integrity. So I began a process of career recognition between Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Arts and my academic history at Universidad Nacional de las Artes.
So now, in 2018 I began my studies in Plastic Arts here at the faculty, and it's been a good semester all around, I like the education I've been receiving and the friends I've been making. A good experience indeed.
I like Museum Curation as a field I want to explore more, so it's definitely my option as a work, besides, I want a full studio to work with my audiovisual projects. I want to work in Europe eventually so all of my plans for the future go there.

Autobiography

My name is Maina Herr, I was born in Santiago, Chile on 28 december 1992, so that means I'm 25 years old now. I'm the first daugther of my parents, I have a little brother too, his name is Martín (well, he's not too little, he's 18 already). My parents are 'kind of young', my mum is 49 and she's called Jimena and my dad is 53 and he's called Eduardo.
Right now I'm studying visual/plastic arts at Universidad de Chile and before that I studied the same career at Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I lived 5 years there, and in 2017 I returned back to Chile. I moved on to Argentina when I was 18 in 2011.
I used to draw a lot when I was a little girl, and I still love to do it. My favorite subjects in visual arts are illustration/drawing, printmaking, screenprinting, collage, digital art and painting. I'm vegan and I'm very strict about it, I don't eat meat since I was 10 years old, so I went vegetarian back then until 2011 where I turned to the vegan lifestyle.
I learned english by myself, and I'm very proud about it, 'cause it was kind of a lifegoal, I'm doing the same now with Russian language, learning through the internet with films, music, translating excercises, self monologues practicing the pronunciation and creating sentences, it's been really helpful before with english so now I'm doing the same with russian, anyway, I want to learn it with some help in an institute.
I like to read everything I can reach on to at the Internet, I'm kind of a knowledge seeker, my interests extend not only to Arts, but to Music, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, Anthropology, Science, Cinema, History, Video Games, and Technology.

Here are some of my web links where I upload selfies, my visual work, my music and my visual imagery:

http://www.instagram.com/mainaherr
http://soundcloud.com/voidwound
http://voidwound.tumblr.com
http://www.behance.com/mainaherr