Cine+Perfo

Born in 1961 in Santiago, Chile, he is an educator, curator, organizer and performance artist since 1993. He has presented his work in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America. He has been guest curator at the international performance art festivals “Interakcje” in Poland and “Blow!” in Germany. He has participated as an artist in the following international performance art festivals, among others: “Cleveland PAF ’96” (Cleveland, USA), “Currency” (New York, USA), “eBent” (Barcelona, Spain), “Full Nelson” (Los Angeles, USA), “NIPAF”, (Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Nagano, Japan), “7a*11d” (Toronto, Canada), “FIX” (Belfast, UK), “Mobius International Festival of Performance Art (Boston, USA), National Review of Live Art (Glasgow, Scotland), La-bas (Helsinki, Finland), Interakcje (Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland) and Live Action Göteborg (Göteborg, Sweden).

He has published essays on contemporary performance art in Chile and Latin America in specialized magazines in England, Japan and Canada; reviews of his work have appeared in art magazines in Europe and North America, and also in the books “Performance y Arte-Acción en América Latina” (Mexico, 2005), and in “Copiando el Edén, arte contemporáneo de Chile” (Chile, 2006).

On numerous occasions he has participated in conferences, lectures and panels, both nationally and internationally; he has given workshops and performance art classes in Northern Ireland, Finland, Germany, Scotland, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

He was organizer and curator of “Performare” (1997), the first international performance art exhibition in Santiago. Together with Alejandra Herrera he co-founded PerfoPuerto, an independent performance art organisation, where he curated and co-organised 12 international performance art festivals between 2002 – 2008. Events in which the work of more than 120 artists from 30 countries in Europe, Asia, Oceania and America was presented.

He is currently co-founder and director of the Latin American performance art platform PerfoLink, with which he has developed 15 performance art festivals and numerous events in Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Mexico.

He has recently presented his work at the international festivals: “New Performance Turku”, Turku, Finland; “Venice Performance Art Week”, Venice, Italy; and “Transart Communication” in Slovakia and Hungary.