07/07/2025, 06.00 PM
Talk with Josefina Cerda and Ébana Garín Coronel
07/07/2025, 06.00 PM
Talk
On the occasion of their participation in the Santarcangelo Festival, Scuola Piccola is pleased to host the talk Trandisciplinary Perspectives on Creating with Josefina Cerda and Festival Ventana al Sur: A vision of art as a production of the world with Ébana Garín Coronel.
In this talk, Josefina Cerda shares her transdisciplinary approach to creation across performance, sound, and intimacy. Her work blurs the lines between art and life, politics, body and technology and care. Through this presentation, she invites audiences to rethink authorship and explore how hybrid practices can open new paths for storytelling.
In the talk Festival Ventana al Sur: A vision of art as a production of the world, Ébana Garín shares the vision behind Ventana al Sur, an exhibition of live arts and creative processes born in 2024 in Santiago de Chile. Born from the desire to present the work of the artistə Avanzada Sur, the Fundación Cuerpo Sur Associated Artists and the Colectivo Cuerpo Sur, the project explores how the South can be perceived as a body, an impulse and a political position. Through this presentation, Garín reflects on the connections between live arts, nature and revolution and invites us to imagine collaborative practices as a response to dominant narratives and epistemological subjugation.
On 10 July they will present Feral at Santarcangelo, a performance that investigates power and pleasure through body and sound practices, with a radical look at sexuality, memory and the archive.
BIO
Josefina Cerda is a Chilean transdisciplinary artist. Her work spans diverse disciplines including theater, performance, dance, media arts, and sound art, exploring the intersections between body, voice, memory, pleasure, and power. With academic training in Theater Performance, Sound Art, Art Theory and History, and Archival Studies, her research engages with collective memory, political trauma, affective archives, and the politics of sexuality and domination. She works across stage and public space, digital platforms, and intimate immersive experiences. Her practice related to sex includes virtual sex work and the exploration of domination and BDSM in intimate, professional, and performative contexts. In parallel, she has developed a sustained practice as a university lecturer, cultural manager, and producer. Her work integrates intellectual inquiry, technological experimentation, and personal narratives.
Ébana Garín has a degree in Arts and is an actress from the University of Chile, with a Master's in performance from DAS Theater Amsterdam. Since 2007, she has worked as an actress, trapeze artist, and performer for various companies in both Latin America and Europe. In 2012, as a multidisciplinary artist, she developed a line of performative research focused on the indiscipline of bodies on stage, encompassing both performers and spectators. As a stage director, she has primarily worked in documentary theater, focusing on the intersection of family, social, and political memory. In 2019, she founded Fundación Cuerpo Sur with Luis Guenel and has since led and co-directed the training and artistic residency project Avanzada Sur, the Festival Ventana al Sur, and the artistic collective Homónimo Cuerpo Sur.