Perfopuerto - Worksessions

5 December

17.30h-21.00h
Catalyst Art Gallery

PERFOPUERTO is a Chilean based performance art organization, since 2001. Responsible for producing many international theme based festivals and events including the 1st performance art congress in 2005 & Ensemble of Women in 2007.

As part of the FIX International Performance Art Biennial, Perfopuerto are invited guest artists in residence at the Catalyst Arts Gallery. From the 30th of November to the 11th of December.
The project will highlight new innovative visual, sound, installation, illustration and performance that will approach collective and independent artistic identities when working within umbrella organisations and Chilean art.
The project will highlight new innovative visual, sound, installation, illustration and performance that will approach collective and independent artistic identities when working within umbrella organisations and Chilean art.

Alejandra Herrera
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile in 1978
www.unit-0.com

As a visual artist and contemporary woman, my answers range from the understanding of male power - socially established in machoist cultures - as well as the women power in action, sometimes overcoming male's physical strength. These encounters between gender hold a discourse in which the artist and audience's bodies become vulnerable, having to face its own reality.
She lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Intolerante al género

Performance e instalacion, Galería 18 street, Los Angeles, California, USA Septiembre 2006

Alexander Del Re
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1961.
www.adelre.com

A long-time scholar of Performance Art history, he became a performance artist in 1993, and since then he has performed in more than 14 countries of North and South America, Europe and Asia. He teaches Performance Art workshops in several locations in his country, and he is also a member of the international performance art workshop "Body, Image and the Other", with Jamie McMurry (USA) and Helge Meyer (Germany), mentoring students in Asia, Europe and America. He is the co-founder of PerfoPuerto.

From Otherness
Performance, Biennial of Performance Art "7a*11d", Xpace, Toronto, Canada. October 2004.

Camila Schliebener
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1982.
www.casch-design.com
www.antilunaticsquad.com

She is a multimedia artist dedicated to graphic design as well as audio art. Besides from a formal education in basic piano she is a self-educated audio artist.
She has participated in collective exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Italy, presenting installations and objects.
In the visual area she began working in engraving and mixed technique, and later she entered the world of digital images and illustration, also designing and developing websites.
Currently she works as an independent Graphic Designer and is about to finish her degree in Graphic Design at Institute of Arts and Communications Arcos, in Santiago, Chile. She is a member of PerfoPuerto since 2001, working as field production coordinator and designer.

News of the World
Photomontage, July 2007.

Catalina Schliebener
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1980.
www.buuuu.com

Visual Artist and Assistant professor in theory and Philosophy of Art in different universities in Santiago. She earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy from University of Arts and Social Science ARCIS and studied Fine Arts in the same university. She is a member of PerfoPuerto since 2003. She lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

Untitled
Digital print on light boxes. Cuarto Amarillo exhibition, Bucci Gallery, Santiago, Chile. 2002.

Daniela Poch
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1984.
www.buuuu.com/amigos/

She earned a degree in Fine Arts at the University of Art and Sciences ARCIS in Santiago, Chile, in 2005. She is a member of the PerfoPuerto since 2004. Currently she works as coordinator of the audio-visual area of PerfoPuerto. She lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

Mike y David
Painting. From the series "Temporada de Caza". 2006

Francisca Fuentes
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1967.

Urbanist and performance artist, she is a member of PerfoPuerto since 2004. Her work is based on the relation between the human communication and the physical structures of the cities.

Solas
Performance. October 2004.

Jonathan Vivanco
Country: Chile

Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1984.
www.themanwho.net/ www.cannibal-art.com/

He studied design in Visual Communication and Fine Arts at Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana, Santiago. He attended several independent Performance art workshops with Alexander del Re. Currently he works as coordinator of the photographic archive of PerfoPuerto, from which he is member since 2002. He lives and works in Santiago, Chile. He is part of the "Cannibal-art" project, about prototypes and reconstructions of pre-historic creatures.

The Globe in 3 Parts
Performance. International Festival of Performance Art, Perfo Puerto 2002. December 2002.

Jorge Opazo
Country: Chile

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1970.
www.jorgequien.com/
www.buuuu.com/amigos/

He studied Visual Communication and Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile. He is a visual artist, illustrator and arts teacher. His artwork explores the relationships between childhood, contemporary art and comics; he has participated in several exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, Germany and Belgium. He is a member of PerfoPuerto since 2006.

El Jardin de las Delicias
Oversized comic strips mixed with texts and objects. Paximobile exhibition, Matucana 100 Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile. 2006.

Sofia De Grenade
Country: Chile

Born in Valdivia, Chile, in 1983.
www.buuuu.com/amigos/

She studied Fine arts at University of Art and Sciences ARCIS in Santiago, Chile. She is a member of PerfoPuerto in the field production area, since 2003. She also studied at the Instituto Audiovisual Brasilero Escola de Cinema Darcy Ribeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Objects
2005