September 6 and 7, 2024
Starting at 3 pm
Av. Pedro de Osma 409, Barranco.
Free entry
Subsuelo is an extended happening that unfolds as an arts festival, coming to life in its second edition thanks to extensive collaborative research and creation. Under the title Seismic Skins, participating artists have been invited to reimagine the tectonic layers of the earth concerning the skins and identities that shape our subjectivity as a species. This fictional proposal has led some artists to question Andean messianic patriarchal narratives to reimagine the life, land, labor, and time we share.
Aiming to collectivize the construction of this experience to create a space that brings us together, three writer friends of Subsuelo—Alda Bernaola, Brisa Fernández, and Saló Tomoe—were commissioned to cut through time and history by inventing three mythologies about the past, present, and future. These chronotopias challenge social conditioning related to race, gender, and class, enabling a space of infrastructural escape where attendees can reflect on how unconventional artistic economies integrate and dialogue with more established exhibition platforms.
Subsuelo: Seismic Skins is, therefore, a durational materialization exercise that brings together artists of varying experience levels, prioritizing racialized individuals and those from gender diversities within the local context. Through a varied program of public activities such as concerts, performances, screenings, an entrepreneurship fair, exhibitions, a fashion show, and a kiki ball, the seismic imaginaries of the Peruvian territory will be evoked to fictionalize multiple futures.
Organized in collaboration between artists Chris Luza, Jaime Prada, and proyectoamil, Subsuelo stands out as a unique platform where all kinds of artistic practices coexist.
Chris Luza is a visual artist and cultural mediator. They have participated in various pedagogical experiences, both in academic spaces and in feminist and artistic organizations of the global south. Their work explores how narratives of fantastic horror and historical truths have constrained our senses of well-being to colonial hierarchies. In this regard, Chris’s work aims to enhance how non-Eurocentric and feminized knowledge survives the colonial order. Their work has included various visual experiences such as video installations, performances, drawings, and more.
Jaime Prada is a multidisciplinary artist whose works explore the experiences of an Afro-Peruvian person, addressing the fragmentation of identities and sexoaffective dynamics. Prada reconnects with their ancestry, reimagining pre-colonial rituals and projecting them into futures that integrate both human and non-human entities. Through this process, innovative approaches to healing and understanding social conflicts are revealed through activism that seeks to comprehend being.
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