Lucreccia Quintanilla has over decades built a cultural practice which is comprised of various artistic modalities.
Her work is concerned with sound, culture and collectivity which drives her to create sound works, written works, sculptural and painting works, events and DJ across a wide range of contexts.
She has worked as a Co-Director/ CEO of sound focused organisation Liquid Architecture as well as completing her artistic practice-led Doctoral research titled Whose Myth, on the echo as a sonic phenomenon and a metaphor, from the Salvadoran migrant perspective.
She is interested in various approaches of sound and amplification. Quintanilla has presented her research at the Sound System Outernational Conference in Naples, Italy organised by Goldsmiths University and In 2014 she constructed a soundsystem as a way to create experimental spaces for culture, multiplicity, respite, dancing, music and sound.
Quintanilla's sound compositions have been presented live, as part of collaborations with performance artists as well as in gallery settings including Westspace Offsite, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. She collaborated with Latai taumoepeau and Nina Buchanan on Refuge commissioned by Arts House Melbourne. She has been a resident artist at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada and was in 2021 part of the Makeshift Project at Artshouse, Melbourne. Quintanilla has received various grants and awards for her work.
She is regularly commissioned to write in response to the work of peers and recent written works include: Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland and has edited issue 19.1 of Un Magazine titled: Resonant Imaginaries, with a focus on artists writings on sound and collectivity.
Lucreccia has been DJing under the name DJ General Feelings for the past 20 years including at events such as Chuleo, Bat Massive, Corasazon, and she has supported Chuquimamani Condori. DJ General Feelings has been described as one of the pioneers of the Latinx scene in Naarm, she brings tough party selections, a forward-thinking vision, and a deep love of Latin music, classics to experimental plus a bag of clever edits and endless sexy grooves.
Lucreccia migrated from El Salvador to Australia during the armed conflict, and she has a very common experience as a Central American migrant; her family lived in the USA for a moment, where she was also born only to return to El Salvador shortly after birth where she grew up into her teens. Being a Salvadoran and migrant permeates everything she does. She remains grateful to live and work on the unceded land of the Wurudgeri people of the Kulin Nation.