Colectivo
Cuerpo
Sur

MINGA DE UNA CASA EN RUINAS

Minga of a house in ruins

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"Minga de una Casa en Ruinas" is a performance created from the remains of a house on the island of Chiloé, at the beginning of Chilean Patagonia. Research questions the meaning of home and home to humans in the times we live. The performance asks how many houses do we need to destroy to finish understanding who we are? Do we have a chance to build another future with these ruins? "Minga de una casa en ruinas" plays with the past, present and future of the remains of a house to propose an intense journey through the sense of inhabiting and of a community, in a present that seems to prefer disposable houses and ephemeral homes.

MUTILADOS

Mutilated

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Mutilados is an interdisciplinary experience created from the testimonies and stories of those who lost their vision, either partly or totally, in the hands of the police during the Chilean Social Outburst in 2019. The research puts on stage the stories and practices of those without the right to govern, the bodies that make up an impure political movement, without hierarchy, with the power to destabilize the limits between the public and the private, the political and the social. The work asks: How can we clean our bodies from the contaminated meanings imposed by capitalist society? How can we return their inherent, particular and forgotten humanity to them? It is those same bodies that desperately struggle to survive today. Dreaming of the opportunity to have dignity, and remain firm on the first line of battle because they've got nothing to lose, because they didn't have anything to begin with.

ÚLTIMA ESPERANZA

Last hope

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Cuerpo Sur Collective proposes to use the stage to investigate the concept of perception of contexts in a hyper-capitalistic and hyper-connected society has become ocularcentric.  Ocularcentrism is understood as the predominance that contemporary society gives to vision over the other senses, progressively producing an impoverishment of the rest of them.

To develop this research, Cuerpo Sur has invited the amateur performer Hilda Snippe (Netherlands), who was born with only 15% vision in her right eye and who today only retains 1%. Hilda will inhabit the stage with the Chilean actress Ébana Garín, and together they will develop performative strategies that will allow us to reflect and question the ocularcentrism of our days in direct dialogue with the life experience of an (almost) blind performer.

"Última Esperanza" questions how we are perceiving the world by bringing to the stage another voice and another way of relating to the world, inspired by the way Hilda perceives her environment and develops socially.

We want to feel again the grain of the voice, the density of a falling body, the smell of the fog on a winter morning, the taste of silence and oblivion. "Última Esperanza" investigates the experience of a body that has been historically displaced by its difference to contrast it with the hyperconnectivity of an era that does not smell, that does not put up any resistance, that is the abolition of all porous reality.

At the same time,"Última Esperanza" is not only proposed as a process of scenic creation, but as a process of artistic and inclusive dialogue that seeks to take this reflection beyond exclusively cultural spaces. In other words, we want to develop a series of artistic, social and educational actions of small and medium format, to be presented both in social centers and in schools. We want to expand the impact of the project beyond the usual theatre audiences and, in this way, create an inclusive and transversal dialogue in society.

LA PIEL DE TU HOGAR

The Skin Of Your Home 

Immersive experience

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"La piel de tu hogar" is a single, small-format experience created to connect the audience with the question about home, living, and the sense of home for humans. It is intended for children from 10 years of age and older to older adults.

The experience invites you to meet with a small box in which a wooden shingle has been traveling from Chiloé, there are headphones, an audio guide and various materials through which a story unveils to invite the viewer to immerse themselves in their memories, cravings and sensations around the home.

Through an audio of a story, participants are invited to build their childhood homes with matchsticks over a table, to draw their paths in life on a map, to review images of floating houses in Patagonia, and to later discover a larch shingle to be used at the table.

The immersive experience "The Skin of Your Home" is age-limitless and requires tables, chairs, and MP3 or cellular devices to connect to hearing aids.

BAILAR EL PAISAJE

Dancing The Landscape

Participatory experience

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The performance exercise is about inviting the public to participate in the reconstruction of a woman’s house in ruins. Through a series of instructions, the public participates in the work, which culminates in the construction of one of the house’s fallen walls.

The work reflects on how capitalism and gentrification are progressing globally at a terrifying speed, homogenizing local identities, tending to heal individuals’ footprints on behalf of alleged progress, gradually eliminating the humble rural house, and the small corner shop to give way to modern architecture that only serves consumption. We are urged to reflect in political and aesthetic terms: How can traditional territorial architecture converse with local identities with a present obsessed with restoration and gentrification that aims to turn our memories into a show?

"Dancing the landscape" invites the audience to join a MINGA, where neighbors and friends gather for collaborative action without money exchange. The work has no age limit and can be developed in both scenarios and unconventional spaces.