Cuerpo
Sur
Foundation
Mission
Fundación Cuerpo Sur is an entity whose purpose is to contribute to the development, promotion and dissemination of contemporary activities, projects and works of art. We develop artistic and training initiatives.
Within our network of contacts in Latin America and Europe, we are interested in positioning the Cuerpo Sur Foundation, through the Avanzada Sur program, as a training and visibility alternative for young creators from Latin America who do not have the possibility of migrating from their countries to study abroad or follow an academic and research process beyond their countries of residence.
At the same time, we seek to accompany creative processes of young creators who are already developing live arts projects at the national level, but who need support in the visibility and dissemination of their research at the international level, whether in residencies or festivals.
We are interested in accompanying them in the process of initiating contact with artists, cultural professionals and artistic programmers from other countries, through a portfolio of projects in various performing arts markets in which to present their works.
Vision
As a Cuerpo Sur Foundation we work through inquiry into specific communities and territories. We are interested in spaces that are not capital cities, where other languages, traditions and wisdoms still persist outside the great narratives. The south as another north, the body of the south that has another way of understanding, of making language and of communicating.
We work through artistic and educational projects, promoting horizontal learning that vitalizes and strengthens the epistemologies of the South.
We believe in developing collaborative practices in specific communities that can bridge social, territorial, and class gaps, which marginalize certain communities from the possibility of accessing new knowledge, at educational instances, networking, resources, and material conditions to develop their own artistic identity.
The Cuerpo Sur Foundation advocates for another body, a body forged by other understandings, traced by its indigenous and mestizos origins, colonized and re-colonized. A body that advocates for other wisdom and relationships with nature. Fundación Cuerpo Sur yearns for a just relationship with nature, with what is human and the non-human. A body that relates through ecological relationships with its environment through its artistic development.
Foundation Team
Cuerpo Sur
Loreto Araya Ignat
International Management
Bachelor of Aesthetics, with experience in programming and cultural management aimed at the development and implementation of cultural projects. She has worked in important spaces of national culture, International Theater Festivals, Embassies, Cultural Centers and Government. She has a great sense of commitment in the generation of artistic-cultural projects and educational training with knowledge in public and territorial management.
Lorena Álvarez Chávez
Communications
Journalist, editor for media specializing in arts and cultures. She is part of Liquenlab, Cuerpo Sur, Identidades Festival, Gerocultura and Malamadre Teatro, among others. In Barcelona, she works in cultural management for the circulation of artists between Europe and Latin America, and is part of the arts and feminism collective Las Migras de Abya Yala. She holds a Master's Degree in Social Communication and Education from the PUC and the UA Barcelona.
Ébana Garín Coronel
Co-direction
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Chile and Master in Performing Arts from the University of the Arts in Amsterdam. She has developed in projects of various kinds as a theater director, actress, trapeze artist, dancer, performer, and audiovisual director both in Chile and abroad. She has worked in stage productions with the company Paso, Teatro del Silencio, Teatro La King Kong, Acción residente, La Laura palmer, Cuerpo Indisciplinado and Cuerpo Sur. In 2022, Minga de una Casa en Ruinas (Minga of a House in Ruins) premiered in: Festival de Liege, Belgium, Pafff Festival Leeuward in the Netherlands, Mladi Levi Festival in Slovenia, Die Schuur Theatre in Haarlem and Right About Now Festival in The Netherlands. In 2023 Minga is part of the Santiago Off Festival and a season at GAM.
Luis Guenel Soto
Co-direction
Actor of the School of Theatre of the Universidad Mayor and Master of Arts of the University of the Arts of Amsterdam and ©Master of Management and Admin. Cultural, University of Chile. He has developed his career in the areas of theater direction and cultural management. His professional project as a theater director has been leading Teatro Niño Proletario. His work has focused on the search for his own artistic discourse with a strong emphasis on the themes of identity, territory and memory. Since 2019, with the Colectivo Cuerpo Sur, he has co-directed the pieces: MINGA OF A HOUSE IN RUINS AND MUTILATED. Both shows have been presented in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Slovenia.
Cecilia Yañez Ortiz
Production
Graduated in Arts from the University of Chile, she has worked as an actress, performer, director, and researcher in different projects making disciplinary crosses with architecture, visual arts, sound art, cinema or science on issues that address feminism, territory, city and memory. In addition to working in the production area at the Fundación Cuerpo Sur, she is co-director and playwright of the collective Cómo se recuerda un crimen (How a crime is remembered) She founded Colectivo Homónimo where she was co-director and actress developing the work Proyecto Mileva and the documentary "Nada se ve favorablemente en el instante en que se ve" and also worked as an actress and researcher at that company TERCER ABSTRACTO In parallel to her creative work, she has participated in arts and education projects teaching for different age groups in academic and community organizations.
Josefina Cerda Puga
Production
Actress, sound designer, cultural manager and performer. Master’s in Theory and Art History. Diploma in Sound Art and Diploma in Archivism from the University of Chile. She serves as a faculty member of the Department of Theatre at the University of Chile, teaching theoretical/practical courses on gender, feminism and interdiscipline. She is part of the performance and urban intervention collective Complejo Conejo, the transdisciplinary collective Cómo se recuerda un crimen, the Compañía Teatro del Sonido and the Colectivo Latina. Her interests intersect sexuality, sound, music, affections, territory, memory, medial arts, and fantasy.
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Fundación Cuerpo Sur seeks to collaborate with national artists and collectives in order to develop an associative link with young creators, which facilitates the processes of relationship with professionals in the cultural field, managing instances for contact between artists of various origins and international artistic programmers.
The portfolio of projects represented by Cuerpo Sur in performing arts markets consists of:
CONVOCATORIA
RELAMPAGO
(LIGHTNING CALL)
The 2023 Convocatoria Relámpago was part of the Ventana Sur cycle in Santiago. It was an initiative of the Cuerpo Sur Foundation in collaboration with the Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho (CCEM) to encourage the creation of young companies, providing a rehearsal room to place their practices and work in process.
The call ended with three groups selected to develop their proposals at the CCEM. The initiative also had the collaboration of Paisaje Público, Goethe Institut Chile, Red Compartir, Balmaceda Arte Joven and Fundación Santiago Off.
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