Ventana al Sur 2026 is the live arts festival of Cuerpo Sur Foundation. From January 20 to 24, we serve as an exhibition platform for the creative processes of the resident artists of the Avanzada Sur 2025 program and the associated artists of Cuerpo Sur Foundation.
From January 20 to 24, our program will unfold through a special circuit in downtown Santiago, inhabiting the streets, hills, and hidden corners of the city—creating a series of spaces to meet and collectively DECIPHER FUTURE MEMORIES THROUGH THE BODY.
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DREAMING LEISURE
[durational performance]
Diez (Santos, Brazil)
A counterproposal to the eight-hour workday, aimed at blurring the boundaries between work and leisure; between the ordinary and the artistic; between space and its users. Through six actions of pleasure and vital energy (each lasting one hour) and a lunch break, this durational performance invites the audience to dance, swap roles with a worker from the space, collectively read the artist’s scientific thesis, and—most challengingly—to do nothing. These actions seek to restore the vitality of the body through the practice of leisure and sleep, allowing, on a secondary level, a questioning of a society that does not feel capable of escaping productivism, even as its progression is manifested in its bodies.
BIO_ Interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and cultural producer. As a performer, their work addresses the problem between art and life, practice and theory, the separation between body and doing, with a focus on the encounter between leisure and work in a creative and methodological way.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Creation and performer: Diez | Texts: Diez and Helena Katz | Artistic tutoring: Eleonora Fabião
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
BEFORE, ALL OF THIS WAS COUNTRYSIDE: MONOCULTURE
Fito Cvxillo (Santiago, Chile)
Monoculture is understood as a technique that occupies a space/time for the cultivation or extraction of a raw material for distribution and commercialization, constituting a homogeneous landscape in which a single species or type of crop is repeated.
The performative action revolves around forest monoculture—specifically radiata pine for timber and paper pulp. Drawing from an analysis of the meme titled “Before, all of this was countryside” and testimonial accounts involving the artist’s father, the work exposes the socio-environmental impact of monoculture on territories and communities.
BIO_ Rodrigo Mellado González is a stage designer, artistic mediator, and performer. His interests lie at the intersection of arts, technologies, and ecologies, with an emphasis on environmental degradation, territorial dispossession, and the extractivist systems prevailing on the planet.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Artistic direction, overall design, and performer: Fito Cvxillo | Video: Nicolás Zapata | Sound: Sebastián Cifuentes | Lighting technician: Daniela Cárdenas | Production: Fito Cvxillo and Cuerpo Sur | Tutoral support: Marcela Santander | English interpretation: Matías González
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
MACHITO
Martín Soria (Salta, Argentina)
A project that intertwines performance with the memory of the Andean dance Caporal, questioning Western gender binarism as a product of colonization and its persistence into the present. Machito explores these norms from a queer, peripheral body, honoring the past while projecting itself into the future through the cosmogony of the Two-Spirit: an ancestral conception present in various Indigenous communities prior to colonization, in which feminine and masculine energies inhabited a single body. This experience seeks to share new ways of seeing, inhabiting, and relating.
BIO_ Performer and contemporary dancer. He has been researching movement since 2014 and proposes a narrative outside major centralist productions, fostering connections with different artists and artistic disciplines from northern Argentina.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Performer: Martín Soria | Caporal artistic advisory: Esteban Callata | Tutoral support: Sharon Mercado Nogales | Co-direction: Tatiana Valdez | Institutional relations, executive production, and tour management: Ulmus.Lodo
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
RIVER OF THE SKY: INCANTATION
Valentina Kappes (Valdivia, Chile)
A participatory performance that invites the audience into a collective incantation to call forth the waters. Through the creation of seed bombs made with pioneer plants from the territory, the work proposes activating memories, fostering reforestation in the sites where the action takes place, and celebrating magic as a creative possibility.
River of the Sky is a multi-format project initiated in 2022 to accompany the resistance of bodies of water threatened by extractivism. Drawing on autofiction and ecology, it disseminates strategies of resistance in the face of the water crisis and stimulates the transformation of discourses around devastation.
BIO_ Dancer, educator, and graphic activist. Her work as a performance creator emphasizes radical imagination, the archive, and collective ways of inhabiting the world, developing territorial connections in southern Chile.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Direction and dramaturgy: Valentina Kappes | Performance: Valentina Kappes and Eli Wewentxu | Socio-ecological advisory: Niki Andrade | Tutoring and conceptual support: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha | Graphic collaboration: Estela Morales, Exploratorio de Artes y Oficios Valdivia | Acknowledgements: Pablo García, Taina Villalobos, Sharif Ramírez, Bawixtabay Torres, Fundación Cuerpo Sur, and the personal archive of my grandmother, Gala Barrientos.
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
IM GOING TOWARDS MY BODY
Bawixtabay Torres (Veracruz, Mexico)
A participatory performative installation that investigates the political place of touch as a means of communication with the erased memories of historically racialized bodies. The piece seeks to create a space for sessions of touch, in which we ask which intergenerational memories have been erased by processes of colonization and how this contact can turn the body into a territory of listening and care.
The proposal extends an individual and collective invitation to touch as a practice of memory and celebration, where the affective and political language of gesture also enables repair.
BIO_ Interdisciplinary artist and anti-racist educator, interested in creating through autofiction and the body. Their practice unfolds through performance, participatory arts, and alternative educational processes.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Research, texts, and performance: Bawixtabay Torres | Sound design: Afraid his horses (Sinuhé Torres) | Original idea for the scenographic proposal: Leonor Téllez | Tutoral support: Luis Guenel | English interpretation: Nicola Vilander
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
MINERAL TIME
Vannia Claret (Graneros, Chile)
An experience that places the spectator before the intimate relationship between body, stone, and territory, through whose interaction the geological memory inhabiting the Earth is activated. The work conceives rock not only as matter, but as a living body: a millenary organism that preserves traces of deep time and of our own origins.
Wear, erosion, and renewal are processes that traverse both the bones of the Earth and the human body. The rock that sustains territories contains mineral time, calling us to meet within an act of sensitivity, listening, and recognition of what dwells beneath our feet.
BIO_ Sculptor and performer. Her work approaches land art, articulating a direct relationship with territory and encounters with geological materials beyond their dimension as sculptural matter.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Original idea, research, texts, and performance: Vannia Claret Cortéz | Sound design: Patricio Ruiz | Tutoral support: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela | English interpretation: EATRI
RESIDENT – AVANZADA SUR PROGRAM 2025
SEISM
Juan Pablo Corvalán / Circo Virtual (Santiago, Chile)
An inquiry into telluric movements in both the material and philosophical spheres, drawing from contemporary circus, sound, the body, and technology. Seism is a scenic narrative that weaves together the journey of an explorer with the force of nature and the persistence of memory. In their search to understand the layers of the Earth and its movements, the expeditionist encounters a telluric landscape that profoundly moves them.
What is it that moves when the Earth—our inhabitable body—shakes?
BIO_ Interdisciplinary circus artist, focused on contemporary circus, object manipulation, and exploration with technology and sound. Creator, director, and performer of the artistic collective Circo Virtual since 2001.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Direction, dramaturgy, and performance: Juan Pablo Corvalán | Musical creation and composition: Alejandra Muñoz | Musical creation and live musician: Marcelo Troncoso | Theoretical advisory and co-dramaturgy: Ana Harcha | Multimedia design: Camilo Ramirez and Cristian Canto | Sound: Gaspar Duclos | Production: Inés Bascuñan | Production management and assistance: Andrea Serrano | International management: Luis Guenel | Audiovisual and photographic documentation: Bastian Yurisch | Communications: Pilar Higuera Valencia
ASSOCIATE ARTIST – CUERPO SUR FOUNDATION
STOLEN ADOLESCENCE
Malicho Vaca Valenzuela (Santiago, Chile)
A performing arts project that brings together different narrative modes—such as biodrama, documentary theatre, autofiction, and art history—proposing a journey through three distinct layers articulated in parallel, forming a manifesto on the adolescence denied to the queer LGBTIQ+ community.
Dissidence, masculinity, the condition of being an actor and poor in Latin America, romance, and tenderness are among the terrains explored and placed under tension, alongside a denunciation of the imposition of hegemonic masculinity and the oppression suffered by those who do not fit within these norms.
BIO_ Performing artist with 15 years of experience in acting, dramaturgy, and direction. His work addresses themes such as sexual diversity, gender, and human rights, intertwining Latin American narratives, memory, and biography.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Concept and creation: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela | Dramaturgy and artistic collaboration: Ébana Garín Coronel | Production: Ébana Garín, Luis Guenel, Roni Isola – Colectivo Cuerpo Sur | Co-production: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale // Zürcher Theater Spektakel
ASSOCIATE ARTIST – CUERPO SUR FOUNDATION
FERAL
Josefina Cerda Puga (Santiago, Chile)
A performance that explores processes of sexualization, objectification, and the empowerment of personal pleasure. Over the course of 30 minutes, the performer weaves a narrative drawn from her own history: from a hypersexualized childhood to an adulthood in which pleasure finds new avenues of exploration through domination, sex work, and BDSM. The piece unfolds within an intimate setting, featuring a live sound recording and playback system, alongside other sex technologies that accompany the narrative. FERAL is a defense of the object over the human.
BIO_ Performance artist, sound designer, and sex worker–dominatrix. Her work explores the relationship between the body, sexuality, sound, and fantasy, addressing pleasure, love, and power dynamics from a critical and sensorial perspective.
Holding a BA in Theatre Acting, an MA in Theory and History of Art, and postgraduate diplomas in Sound Art and Archival Studies, Josefina has developed her interdisciplinary approach through both academic research and non-institutional artistic practice.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Creation and performance: Josefina Cerda | Prosthetics: O’Ryan Lab | Mask: Pedro Gramegna, John Alvarez | Administration, production, and distribution: Ébana Garín and Roni Isola – Cuerpo Sur Foundation
ASSOCIATE ARTIST – CUERPO SUR FOUNDATION
REMINISCENCE
Malicho Vaca Valenzuela (Santiago, Chile)
Presented in the form of a biographical documentary essay, the work raises sensitive, political, and intimate questions simultaneously. What will happen to our traces when we are no longer here? Will anything of us remain in the streets of our cities? What will be left of us in the external memory of an old computer? What story about us will Google tell when we are no longer here? Is it possible to map a memory?
Through a delicate and seductive use of digital platforms, the creator delves into his personal biography while simultaneously excavating the biography of his city, Santiago de Chile—engaging with both recent memory and deep scars produced by social uprisings and past dictatorships. This experience focuses on singular places, foregrounding an emotional topography: a relationship with the city that is always different for each person, yet one in which we inevitably meet. The piece is an immobile journey, from the Milky Way to the narrow passageway where three generations of his family have lived.
BIO_ Performing artist with 15 years of experience in dramaturgy and direction. His work addresses themes such as sexual diversity, gender, and Human Rights, creating works that intertwine Latin American narratives, memory, and biography.
ARTISTIC CREDITS_
Creation, direction, video, and dramaturgy: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela | Performers: Malicho Vaca Valenzuela and, on screen, Rosa Alfaro and Lindor Valenzuela | Assistant director: Ébana Garín Coronel | Administration, production, and distribution: Ébana Garín, Luis Guenel, Roni Isola, and Cuerpo Sur Foundation
ASSOCIATE ARTIST – CUERPO SUR FOUNDATION
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