With live performances and video interventions by The Glad Scientist, Catrileo + Carrión Community, Theo J Rose, Riven Ratanavanh, Pau Aran Gimeno, stefa marin alarcon, Erica Schreiner, Grace Byron, Samay Arcentales Cajas, Anto Astudillo , and more.*
Generative/Unproductive is not oxymoronic: generative implies an openness that allows for the creation of endless variations of knowns or unknowns—rather than the outcome-focused goals pushed by productivity. In this encounter of moving image, visual art, poetry, music, and performance, Anto Astudillo invites local and international artists to be part of a live conversation, anticipated as “unproductive”: generating a gender fluidity-advocating ephemeral experience that opposes land ownership and capital accumulation by occurring only once in a cycle.
Generative/Unproductive brings living organisms and varied media together to engage in expanded and contracted cognitive interactions. As described by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, we can appreciate microorganisms and human beings in opposition to the hierarchical concept of the Anthropocene, as inhabiting the same culture. Each artist creates a relational space that exalts their identity, proposing a trans and non-binary perspective which emanates from organic matter.
*Please note that the artist line-up of this event may change.
