Resident Artists Avanzada Sur 2023
In its first edition, the Avanzada Sur program has been characterized by encouraging practical work rooted in the territory, promoting links with local cultural agents and promoting interdisciplinary dialogues, based on knowledge and practices of the global south that value the ancestral knowledge of this part of the world, proposing a different look at the Eurocentric interpretation.
Curatorship 2023: Environmental Change - Socially Engaged Art - Feminist Practices and Perspectives.
2023 RESIDENTS AND PROJECTS
MICHELLE REYES FUENTEALBA
Transdisciplinary artist, professional photographer, graduated as an Art Therapist. She defines corporality as her main discipline, which she activates from constant research around the photographic self-portrait, investigating from the interdisciplinary, with somatic practices, contemporary dance, performance and writing, to integrate creative processes with processes of self-knowledge and development of the self.
La tierra tiene una herida | The earth has a wound
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"The earth has a wound" is a mirror, it is a self-portrait. From the consciousness of the connective network of the living, the performative self-portrait is understood as an embodied state of being: it is the image that emerges from the present, from the instinct of the living. The artist seeks to embody the wound and the action of cracking, breaking, dividing photographic materiality emerges, where the questions arise: can the performative self-portrait be the mirror of otherness?, can the performative action transform myself and subvert the objectified information that has been instilled in our bodies?
KATALINA OYARZO ALVARADO
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Born in Punta Arenas. Her training ranged from the visual arts to the performing arts. She migrated to the Port of Valparaíso to continue her academic and artistic training. She is an actress, holds a degree in Theatre with a minor in Theatre Didactics and a Diploma in Scenic Design.
Punto Red | Network point
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The project idea is born from the fabric, my Chilean roots and the sea. I seek to bring together materialities such as wool, its derivations, nets and water in a staging. Stories and experiences that people and their territory can give me. The craft of weaving and finding a relationship with the sea. These three concepts were the first ones I identified when I got into the project idea. Roots, for my grandmother, maternal heritage and my Chilota ancestry. Weave, such as technique, culture, materiality, iteration, memory, dialogue, temporality. Sea, as a future, movement, body, territory, stage and home. I would like to generate a documentary fiction that starts from the fabric and its stories; the territory and its people; the sea and its future. Thread these relationships and lead to a staging.
NATALIA MONTOYA LECAROS
Bachelor's degree, pedagogue and Master's degree in Visual Arts. Iquiqueña, pilgrim of the Tirana party. Su obra se desarrolla desde inquietudes materiales hacia preguntas que apuntan a los nudos de sus territorios afectivos, cruzados por su origen Aymara. Busca poner en evidencia la contradicción geográfica del norte chileno, su historia elaborada desde la multiculturalidad y la construcción de una identidad e imagen, a través del alto contraste con el resto del territorio. Her work includes sculpture, painting, installation
and performance.
Jaguar en flor | Jaguar in bloom
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"I seek to delve into the use of a visuality that refers to my territory of origin, the Great North of Chile - and at the same time - refer to the connection that the ancestors and their border neighbors have had: how did they understand the relationships between species and between worlds? For this, I wanted to explore the healing qualities of plants, starting with Bach flowers, mixed with stories and my own memory about the use of power plants. This is how with a braid and hair I present elements that can be a link between worlds, and in turn, collect part of the knowledge of the journey. The body as a vehicle for the encounter with other beings in a dialogue of cooperation".
LUZÉ
A transdisciplinary artist, Luzé cooks his creations in the water of the translinguism inside the autophagic bonfire. His inventive journeys cross borders as he walks in the company of the charming anticolonials. In addition to film courses, he has training in Theatre (Martins Penna) and Performing Arts (PUCRio). In 2022 he published his first book, "Império Nacionalista" (Editora 7Letras), an unfolding of the shared experiment in piece-film (2021) directed by Ana Kfouri. Between 2022/23, he presented the same experiment at the "8th Midrash Festival" and the "3rd FESTFLUM". Before, 2020, he had performed the performative speech "Quando Aílton Krenak Rasgou Minhas Vestes". Recently, he was part of the dance show "Onde Somos Imersas", directed by Dani Lima. Today, he is part, together with Juliana Gonçalves, of the "LAB Cinema Expandido" residency at the MAM-Rio Cinematheque, a project by "Duas Mariolas" called "Territorios, Máscaras e Fantasmas".
De Pelos y Cicatrices | Of Hair and Scars
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From the first moment Luzé saw the photograph on the cover of the book “De Perlas y Cicatrices”, he felt he had another great reference from Pedro Lemebel to boost his desire to perform on body hair. However, during his first stay in Chiloé, this desire was fueled by something else: el pelillo (a type of seaweed). Now, the artist is also researching this Pacific seaweed, from its extraction in Chile to its consumption in Japan. In addition to experimenting with its materiality, Luzé is developing an essay on the autophagic relationship with body hair.
IGNACIA URIBE
Actress, cultural manager and researcher. She works as a performer mainly in the audiovisual field and stands out for her participation in various national film and television productions. Together with Catalina Aguilera, they make up Colectiva Locamotora. A duo of interdisciplinary research focused on the study of the territory and its transformative agents. They are currently developing their second sound research of the HOMINIDAE project, a cartography made from soundscapes, testimonies and archives. The research group was born from a common socio-political perspective and the desire to investigate interdisciplinary languages that include the performing arts, sound, performance, video and installation.
Hominidæ Chilwe
Hominidæ is a research project that consists of the territorial study of a specific city based on the collection of soundscapes and auditory testimonial records, based on the research question: What is your struggle? The idea is to observe the main transforming agents of the territory, since the research is focused on capturing the present to generate archival material as a preservation of territorial memory. The research is shared in two formats: Immersive audible installation in the territory and a cartography in web format
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CARLA SOTOMAYOR
Actress, Bachelor of Arts, University of Playa Ancha. Diploma in theatrical teaching from the Arcos Institute. The profession is developed in stage creation from acting and performance, as well as in teaching as a facilitator, especially in singing. Her creative processes are associated with practical research, in artistic collectives in the Valparaíso region; Colectivx interdisciplinary Experiencia Humana: Despedida (2021), Desvanecerse es poco (2022) Desatino de la Soledad (2023), expo-perfo Imaginario de la Memoria (2022) and Proyecto Biela (2023); Espacio Ané: Art and Thinking: This is a Theatre (2022); Distance collaborations Artistic residency at Teatro La Memoria: Inextinguishable (2022) And also in companies; La Peste Theatre: Immolar (2023); Disaster Theater: Chronic State (2018) Physika Cosplay (2022) and Gaysha (2024); Ignorant Theatre: Requiem, city in Ruins (2022). As a teacher and facilitator, she has worked in various health and education institutions, including Hospital Psiquiátrico Del Salvador (2016-2022) and Corporación de Educación, Arte y Cultura -CEAC (2021-2022), conducting workshops and mediation activities on voice management and promoting mental health. During 2023, he is part of the Avanzada Sur artistic residency in Chiloé of the Fundación Cuerpo Sur, directing the "Expedición 180" project of the collectivx Experiencia Humana.
Expedición 180 | Expedition 180
Meet an elephant in the dark. Practical-theoretical research in progress that stems from the desire to cross the Chiloé archipelago on foot from north to south (200k) in 18 days, as if it were a pilgrimage "to Lo Vásquez", to find the lost work. This absurd walk supports an exercise in collecting the sounds of Nature and stories: voices of elderly women enter into daily conversation with two strangers who pilgrimage in this underwater mountain range under the multiple rains, the cold and the road, in an encounter with the memory of their own body: “Have you ever walked a lot?” The selected inputs will be organized for the composition of an invitation to walk: medial and sound perfo-installation in the failed attempt to transmit Expedition 180, putting in tension the concepts of survival, myth and experience.