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Locked up during the pandemic, Malicho sat in front of his computer and put together a collage of collective memories. A personal experiment on archives, which became an unidentified theatrical object.
Through a delicate use of digital platforms, he digs into his personal biography and at the same time into that of his city, into a recent memory and deep scars, generated by social outbursts and past dictatorships. A motionless journey, from the Milky Way to the passage where three generations of his family have already lived.
With a simple click on a digital map, he recounts the love story of his grandparents, evokes anonymous loves engraved with fire in his city, and recounts shards of repressed revolutions; all fragments of an intimate and collective memory.
A sensitive, political and intimate biographical documentary essay: what will happen to our traces when we are gone, will there be anything left of us in the streets of our cities, can a memory be mapped?
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Encerrado durante la pandemia, Malicho se sentó frente su computador y organizó un collage de memorias colectivas. Un experimento personal sobre los archivos, que se transformó en un objeto teatral no identificado.
A través de un uso delicado de las plataformas digitales, escarba en su biografía personal y al mismo tiempo en la de su ciudad, en una memoria reciente y en cicatrices profundas, generadas por estallidos sociales y dictaduras pasadas. Un viaje inmóvil, desde la Vía Láctea hasta el pasaje donde ya tres generaciones de su familia han vivido.
Con un simple clic en un mapa digital, repone la historia de amor de sus abuelos, evoca amores anónimos grabados a fuego en su ciudad, y relata esquirlas de revoluciones reprimidas; todos fragmentos de una memoria íntima y colectiva.
Un ensayo documental biográfico sensible, político e íntimo a la vez. ¿Qué va a pasar con nuestras huellas cuando ya no estemos? ¿Quedarán algo de nosotros en las
With over 100 offerings – from rebellious circus, delicious dance, fearless theatre and activist art to workshops, parties, and more – Cannonball pushes the boundaries of live performance at four different venues this Fringe. Come as you are and stay past bedtime at cannonballfestival.org.
1400 N American St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
1400 N American St
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
Chilean artist Malicho Vaca Valenzuela has been working in the theatrical field for fifteen years as an author, director and actor. He has written six plays to date, and is currently in the creative process for a new project. His work tackles a variety of themes including sexual diversity, gender and human rights. His projects are also nourished by the study of Latin American narratives and memory, as well as a reflection on biographical writing. A delicate and sensitive approach to different technological formats enables Malicho to expose his creative process to the audience as well as to write, from a position of vulnerability, an autobiography that is interwoven with the history of a territory marked by multiple revolutionary failures.
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El artista Chileno Malicho Vaca Valenzuela ha desarrollado el oficio escénico por 15 años a través de la actuación, la dramaturgia y la dirección. Tiene seis obras de su autoría y un nuevo proyecto en proceso de creación. En su trabajo se abordan diversas temáticas como diversidad sexual, género y derechos humanos. Sus obras están cruzadas por la investigación de la narrativa latinoamericana, la memoria y la biografía. A través de una indagación delicada y sensible de diferentes formatos y tecnologías, Malicho expone su proceso de pensamiento creativo a los espectadores, permitiéndose desde la vulnerabilidad, compartir su biografía y la de un territorio atravesado por múltiples fracasos revolucionarios.
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