Viviana Méndez is a Chilean visual artist and performer, born in 1973, currently living and working in Paris. Her practices all originate from writing, exploring the individual mythology surrounding the universe of the seamstress and its “genres.” (genres is translated in spanish to “genero”; “fabric” o “cloth”)
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Pablo Schalscha (CL)
Pablo Schalscha Doxrud (1974), Santiago, Chile. He lives and works in Valdivia. He is a visual artist and a teacher at the Visual Arts Institute of the Universidad Austral de Chile. A member of the Coma collective based in Valdivia and the Panamérica Transatlántica collective with bases in Rio de Janeiro, Valdivia, and Paris. He considers his work a visual poetry that explores the disposable and paradoxical facets of material reality.
Adrian Silva (CL)
Adrián Silva Pino (Lautaro, 1973) is currently the Extension Coordinator of the Museological Directorate of the Universidad Austral de Chile. He studied anthropology and specialized in visual anthropology through courses and workshops. His ethnographic work focuses on the Rapa Nui and Mapuche cultures. He has documented and researched the Photographic Heritage Collection of the Museological Directorate, which he now oversees. His cinematic work, TV series, and documentary short films have premiered at FICValdivia, and he has participated in Ars Electronica (Austria).
Jan Vormann (DE/CL)
He is a founding member of the T10 Studios in Berlin, Germany, and COMA in Valdivia, Chile, as well as an artist and lecturer. He studied Visual Arts at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee with an exchange year studying Monumental Arts at the Stieglitz Academy of Fine Arts in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Besides having lectured in the New Media Art Department of Universidad Austral de Chile and in the Interaction Design department at BTK University’s in Berlin, Vormann has lead several workshops and given talks at various institutions including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Parsons School of Design in Paris, the Amsterdam Institute for Architecture and in many elementary schools throughout Europe.
In addition to interventions in public spaces around the world, Vormann has presented his work at international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale of Art (2011) and Architecture (2018), the Ars Electronica in Linz (2010) and the Nuits Blanches in Paris (2014). Vormann’s projects have been featured in global media outlets such as Le Monde, The New York Times Mag, Deutsche Welle and Financial Times Deutschland.
Batimientos – Schwebungen
By Kerstin Ergenzinger & Florencia Curci
Preparing the walk through the Lapataia valley with maps and through the cartographic gaze from afar we strongly felt our foreignness and the valley’s negative space. Its resonance space was an external void. Its prevailing elements seemed to be water and wind.
We imagined bodies and voices in the winds. We imagined to join with our breath sounding tones without semantics.
Continue reading “Batimientos – Schwebungen”Lärm
by Florencia Curci, Fernanda Olivares & Nicolás Spencer
The noise emanating from the sea serves as a wake-up call, a mechanism or device, an artifice that heralds an emergency with nymphs’ cries from a place, be it a utopian or dystopian topos. This is how a narrative emerges, originating from the depths of the sea, carried by air currents and surface waves, creating turbulence as it interacts with the seabed and crashes against the coastal breakers. The mythological noise, or “Lärm,” undergoes a transformation and dissolves, taking on premonitory forms or dystopographies.
Continue reading “Lärm”Jasmine Guffond (AU/DE)
Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions and engages listening as a situated knowledge practice.
Interested in providing an audible presence for phenomena that lies beyond human perception, via the sonification of facial recognition algorithms, global networks, or Internet tracking cookies she questions what it means for our personal habits to be traceable, and for our identities, choices and personalities to be reduced to streams of data.
In 2021 Dr. Jasmine Guffond completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales Art, Design & Architecture department, where she conducted research into sound as a method of investigation into online surveillance cultures. She teaches casually at the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts masters program at the UdK in Berlin.
photo © Camille Blake
Aladino del CarmenSalas (CL)
A taxi driver from Punta Arenas, making tourist trips, travelling more than 700 km a day. He knows the terrestrial but also the marine territory with more than 25 years of experience sailing in fishing and factory vessels, Japanese squid-ships (which are called Jail Vessels). Aladino is a great connoisseur of the land and its people.
Joaquín Almonacid (CL)
Anthropologist specialising in the human dimensions of biodiversity conservation. He currently works in the Department of Protected Wildlife Areas of CONAF Magallanes, developing a work of liaison and participation with local communities and indigenous peoples of the region.
Katty López Soto (CL)
Terra Ignota Forum’s Production Manager
Actress graduated from Teatro Escuela La Matriz de Valparaíso. Graduate in Scenic Studies, Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile. Master in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid Spain.
Her interest is focused on the development of practical research processes in performing arts, mainly associated with the areas of acting and directing.
Produces and manages artistic and training projects among which are considered Colaboraciones en Distancia / Fuego Acciones en cemento/ Encuentro MIXTAS.
Produces and co-directs the Centro de Investigación Teatro la Peste de Valparaíso, a space with 25 years of experience in stage creation.She is currently one of the resident artists at Teatro La Memoria, in charge of the direction and general production of the plays Inextinguible and Inmolar.