Chile
Highlights
120 Doors Pavillion
The 120 Doors Pavilion in Concepción, Chile, consists of steel tubes supporting wooden doors arranged in five perimeters. It explores spatial limits and transitions, using doors to challenge definitions of space, temporality, and boundaries in architecture and art.
Mapping a digital quipu
Elspeth (Billie) Penfold is a textile artist who brings her experience of teaching and research into performative work. In 2012 she formed the arts group Thread and Word. Through call outs and personal invitation Elspeth works collaboratively with invited artists and academics to develop performative walks. Elspeth was born in Bolivia, and she likens the digital threading of texts with the physical threading of Andean quipus.
‘Walls are where we communicate’: how murals paint Chile’s politics | Chile | The Guardian
Alejandro ‘Mono’ González has used walls as his political voice for six decades in Chile, a ‘nation of muralists’ Source: ‘Walls are where we communicate’: how murals paint Chile’s politics | Chile | The Guardian
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In which I go for a walk… on paper
This is part of the work I’m putting together for my residency in Moskosel, in northern Sweden. I wanted to use the opportunity of my residency, which was to consider themes of AR and VR, to explore the possibilities of the rapid rise of AI. Already, I had ChatGPT create two dozen, or so, short texts, …
• A pacific sunset
We had planned the last stop on our trip to be Santiago, where we were expecting to spend the new year. Instead, an old friend got wind of our visit, and invited us to stay with them. In Santiago, but also in El Quisco, where she was going to spend the new year with her …
• Reaching out to you…
Dear Friend, I am writing to extend my immense gratitude for your support of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama over these last 16 years! 2022 was generous and exciting year, transitioning from an online presence to in-person classes, workshops, and performances. With my husband Todd Carroll, we have been collaborating non-stop from one project to the next, and […]
