2021-2022 LABORATORY: EXPANDING SCENES
TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVES LABORATORY
CARLOS DEL ÁGUILA CALLE – Perú /Bolivia
It is considered a collaborator within creative processes related to the visual and living arts. With technical training in communication tools, graphic design and art direction. His works in film, video and stage productions address
themes of memory and cities and have been part of festivals, exhibitions and catalogs at an international level. He was part of the video performance collective the middle of nowhere, art director in plays, cameraman, family documentary maker, editor and currently a migrant.
SOUND ART LABORATORY
OSCAR KELLEMBERGER BRETEL – Bolivia
Musician born on September 22, 1975 in La Paz – Bolivia. He began his studies in keyboard in a self-taught way in 1990, forming part of several musical groups in the environment. He began his academic studies in composition and conducting in 2000, in the Music Career of the Loyola University, in the city of La Paz. During this time he participated in various student musical events as a composer, director and performer with different ensembles. In 2004 he began his career as a university teacher at the same University, an activity that continues to this day. He participated as Composer and Instrumentalist in
recordings and live performances with the groups Illapa Reggae, Ra Beat, Las Últimas Neuronas, Acid Club, Kimo, Electro Jazz and others. He has collaborated artistically with Patricia García, Sandra De Berduccy and Adriana Bravo in the creation of multidisciplinary works. Dedicated to research; His academic activity focuses on the study of the different possibilities offered by current technologies applied to musical creation, exploring the different aspects of human re-creation in relation to interpretive techniques, performance and technology. He has worked as an analyst, sound file transcriber and technician.
DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS LABORATORY
ANNABEL CASTRO – México
Artist with digital and experimental media. The crossing of geographical, virtual and mental spaces, the journey as landscape and identity are recurring themes in her work. She received a master in science degree specialized in art and technology at Chalmers University of Technology and a doctorate in digital art at the University of Washington. She has published articles in the magazines Artnodes (Open University of Catalonia), Art and Identity Policies (University of Murcia) and Cultural Geographies (Sage Publications).
Among other support, Castro received in Bolivia the La Paz award from the SIART international art biennial and the CONART III Open Territories commission from the mARTadero cultural center. In Mexico, she is a recipient of
the 2021 research-creation grant from the Center for Research, Innovation and Development of the Arts of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, obtained the PBEE incentive from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts and the first place in art object of the third national biennial Puebla de los Ángeles.
Her work has been shown in spaces such as MUSEF (La Paz), Transmediale festival (Berlin), SIGGRAPH Asia and Stamps Gallery (University of Michigan). Currently his work can be seen until June 2022 in Contact areas: Art History in a Global Network at DHAJ Gallery (Berkeley University / Samuel H. Kress Foundation).
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE 2021 - 2022
JORGE ALANIZ – Potosí/Cochabamba
Born in Quechisla – Potosí in 1980, at age 5 he was relocated by the government with his family, eventually settling in Cochabamba.
Since 2002 he has dedicated himself to theater, he studied at the Municipal Theater Workshop and then he worked with El Masticadero and Kiknteatr.
In 2010 he founded his own group, La Mala – Grupo de Teatro, with which he prioritized the assembly of his own texts.
He was the winner of different theater and dramaturgy competitions.
He is also a musician with empirical training.
KATHERINE BUSTILLOS-VILA – La Paz
Playwright, psychologist, student of Mathematics. Two-time winner of the First Place of the Adolfo Costa Du Rels Contest (2017 and 2020). In 2016, she won the Under-30 Dramaturgy Contest of the Second OFF Festival in La Paz. Several of his texts were published online in “LA ESCENciA” and “Dramaturgia Boliviana”.
She also won the Panorama Sur Bolivia Scholarship (2017). In 2019, she was part of Hito Tripartito Residence (Bolivia-Chile-Peru), and part of the Interdram Dínamo 7 Ibero-American Residency in 2020. She currently studies the Master’s Degree in Dramaturgy at the University of Dramatic Art, Buenos Aires-Argentina.
CLAUDIA EID – Cochabamba
Playwright, theater director and actress. She currently runs her independent theater company El Masticadero, founded in 2005.
Her texts have been published in anthologies in Bolivia, Spain, Argentina and Cuba. “Desaparecidos” and “Mujer de Juan” were translated into Portuguese
and published in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, within the PERIFÉRICO project.
Her works together with Masticadero have toured national and international festivals in Formosa, Córdoba, Neuquén and Buenos Aires in Argentina, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and Heidelberg in Germany.
PATRICIA GARCÍA – La Paz
Actress, director and theater educator with 26 years of experience. Lic in education. She trained and worked in performing arts: theater, dance and music in Bolivia, Argentina and France. She has participated in more than 15 international theater, music and dance festivals such as the Avignon Festival.
She works independently in theater, film and television and since 2002 she has been a creative partner of the companies Kikntear and Escena 163. Today she is the director of Escenalmargen collective and Ser y Estar Workshop, a training project for young actors and for the promotion of contemporary dramaturgy.
RAISA ENCINAS – Sucre
In 2008 she she won the CONBOJUV Festival with her first play “Youth: confused experience” (written, staged and performed by her). In 2009 she became part of Lanzarte Project (Swiss Solidar’ NGO), where Teatro El Animal group was born directed by Gonzalo Callejas and Alice Guimaraes, where she still works with
In 2014 they received the National Peter Travesí Award, with the work “Invisibles”. And in 2019, at the XIII Raúl Salmón de La Barra Municipal Theater Contest, she achieves the Special Mention For The Best Protagonist Actress in the play “Si nos permiten hablar”.
is supported by the International Relief Fund for Organizations in Culture and Education 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners: www.goethe.de/hilfsfonds
www.goethe.de/hilfsfonds.
