El 27/2 tuve la oportunidad de participar en el Programa de Historia y Arte Peruano – XII, organizao por la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú, dentro del eje temático Arte contemporáneo peruano y memoria (territorio, extractivismo y lenguas originarias), con la charla Memorias que se tejen juntas: arte, afecto y territorio en las prácticas contemporáneas.
Hablé de mi trabajo reciente, especialmente del proyecto Santuario Virtual para un Duelo Fertilizante. La charla grabada se puede ver en este enlace.
Yesterday inaugurated the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 @sonicacts , titled Melted for Love, which will be on until March 29th. On Sunday 8opens the show at Rozenstraat 59, including my work Asking Trees, Birds and Ghosts about Future Images and Sounds. It is an experimental film developed from 360-degree video recorded in the Peruvian Amazon, amongst Indigenous communities where leaders and environmental defenders have been recently killed, which departed from my project Virtual Sanctuary for Fertilizing Mourning @fertilizing_mourning
On March 22 at 4 pm I’ll perform there my text A Medium Speaks to You. If in Amsterdam, save the date!
Film credits: Original drawings: Enrique Casanto @eniseasenriquecasanto , Lastenia Canayo @lasteniacanayo62 Animation: Diego Vizcarra @diefghijk , Martín Aramburu @esquilmeusted Vocal contributions: Sozia Holubowska @mmmhhh_zzzhhh , Imayna Caceres @imaynacaceres with Yeni Ccorahua, Susana Ojeda and Marcela Torres , Yorgia Karidi @yorgiakaridi , Edith Ramos with Tilsa Otta @tilsa.ov and Coral Rojo @coralrojo_7 The film was produced after being selected by Pixel, Bytes + Film, supported by BMKWOES Austria.
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💥💥💥 Ayer se inauguró la Bienal de Actos Sónicos 2026, titulada “Melted for Love”, que estará abierta hasta el 29 de marzo. El domingo abre la exposición en Rozenstraat 59, donde puede verse mi trabajo “Preguntando a Árboles, Pájaros y Fantasmas sobre Imágenes y Sonidos Futuros”. Es una película experimental desarrollada con videos de 360 grados grabados en la Amazonía peruana, con comunidades indígenas donde líderes y defensores del medio ambiente han sido asesinados recientemente, continuación del proyecto Santuario Virtual para un Duelo Fertilizante.
El 22/3 a las 4 pm presentaré “Una Médium Te Habla”. Reserva la fecha si estás en Amsterdam :)
Créditos: Dibujos originales: Enrique Casanto, Lastenia Canayo Animación: Diego Vizcarra, Martín Aramburu Contribuciones vocales: Sozia Holubowska, Imayna Caceres con Yeni Ccorahua, Susana Ojeda y Marcela Torres, Yorgia Karidi, Edith Ramos con Tilsa Otta, Coral Rojo.
On February I conducted the experimental video workshop Embodied Herstories at Ntizeza in Athens. Here is the info of the event:
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO WORKSHOP with guest Eliana Otta Wednesday, February 11 and Wednesday, February 18, 19.00-21.30
🔸A short video workshop, combining theory and practice, focusing on the poetic and subversive potentials of experimental filmmaking. We will explore forms such as video diary, poetic documentary, non-fiction, of an idiosyncratic, low-budget, witty, ethereal, and personal filmmaking.
🔹This workshop’s theme is Embodied Herstories: How can feminist performance in moving images make us rethink how history is written? What narratives can we challenge by blending feminism and popular culture in video? Focusing on the «live» or «bodily» aspect of performing, how can we use our bodies as active tools, connecting with our surroundings and critically commenting on our present histories?
Experimental video workshops are curated and hosted by Katerina Markoulaki and Anastasia Diavasti.
Los días 11 y 18 de febrero impartí el taller de video experimental «Historias Encarnadas» en Ntizeza, Atenas. Acá la información del evento:
TALLER DE VIDEO EXPERIMENTAL con la invitada Eliana Otta Miércoles 11 y 18 de febrero, de 19:00 a 21:30 h
🔸Un breve taller de video que combina teoría y práctica, centrado en el potencial poético y subversivo del cine experimental. Exploraremos formatos como el videodiario, el documental poético y la no ficción, con un cine idiosincrásico, de bajo presupuesto, ingenioso, etéreo y personal.
🔹El tema de este taller es «Historias Encarnadas»: ¿Cómo puede la performance feminista en imágenes en movimiento hacernos repensar cómo se escribe la historia? ¿Qué narrativas podemos desafiar al fusionar el feminismo y la cultura popular en el video? Centrándonos en el aspecto “en vivo” o “corporal” de la performance, ¿cómo podemos utilizar nuestros cuerpos como herramientas activas, conectándonos con nuestro entorno y comentando críticamente nuestras historias presentes?
Los talleres de vídeo experimental están organizados y presentados por Katerina Markoulaki y Anastasia Diavasti.
As a closing action for my residency period at Onassis AiR, I did “To change an object for a drawing” at Eleonas bazaar on December, 2025. It was a fun morning exchanging my things with the visitors of the market who accepted to draw what they wanted to take home with them.
Como cierre de mi residencia en Onassis AiR, realicé la actividad «Cambiar un objeto por un dibujo» en el bazar de Eleonas en diciembre de 2025. Fue una mañana divertida intercambiando mis cosas con los visitantes del mercado, quienes aceptaron dibujar lo que querían llevarse a casa.
From Ntizeza‘s post about the event on November, 2025:
Collective chavits cooking with Sofoula and Parthena, was an evening of refugee stories from third generation Pontic women, shared while giving directions for the live cooking of a simple Pontic dish, chavits.
Kilim Hub explored a hybrid narrative based on postmemory and oral history, focusing on herstory—a feminist approach highlighting women’s daily lives, perspectives, and experiences. Through oral narratives and urban space, we examined the city’s migration and movement history from an intimate, human lens.
During this event, we shared a limited edition of our publication poster, visualising our work as Kilim Hub.
Oooriste Pediá! Is the name of the fanzine that I made as part of my research Tracing Traces of Traces supported by Onassis AiR from September to December 2025. It is a publication made with photographs and conversations that I had September with vendors who work in the Eleonas’ flea market in Athens. Currently Oooriste Pediá 3 is on the make!
¡Oooriste Pediá! es el nombre del fanzine que creé como parte de mi investigación «Trazando Rastros de Rastros», con el apoyo de Onassis AiR, de septiembre a diciembre de 2025. Es una publicación con fotografías y entrevistas realizadas a vendedores del mercadillo de Eleonas en Atenas. ¡Actualmente estoy creando Oooriste Pediá 3!
Last November I made these drawings of my admired Rita Segato, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Verónica Gago, to support a fundraiser for the great Echo Mobile Library project. Check them out!
El pasado noviembre hice estos dibujos de mis admiradas Rita Segato, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui y Verónica Gago para apoyar una recaudación de fondos para el gran proyecto de la Biblioteca Móvil Echo en Atenas. ¡Échenles un vistazo!
As part of my research project Tracing Traces of Traces at Onassis AiR Fall 2026 Open Days, I did the participatory talk Time Traveling Within Modernity’s Ruins in November 2025:
Time Traveling Within Modernity’s Ruins
As part of her research project Tracing Traces of Traces, Eliana Otta presents a participatory lecture with reflections about rapid changes happening in her hometown Lima, and in the places that make her feel at home here, like the Eleonas Bazaar (aka ‘Gypsy Market’). The market is now in danger of disappearing or, at least, undergoing a drastic transformation due to the construction of the upcoming Panathinaikos New Stadium. Its Peruvian twin, Tacora was also a solution for unemployed and impoverished people, usually migrants, as well as the theme of Eliana’s first solo show in 2008.
Now she follows closely what may be Eleonas’ last period in its current form, producing an archive of sound and visual material, including conversations with the vendors, part of which are featured in the zine launched during the Open Days.
Otta understands the market as an accumulation of traces telling of the multi-layered history of the neighborhood, linked to one of Athens’ most marginalized migrant communities. The objects it offers are remnants of past epochs, cultural trends, economic phenomena, and the circulation of goods in the region. Thus, the project connects traces of habits of consumption, production, and the ideas about fashion, use, and modernity that traverse our bodies and the cities we inhabit.
Yesterday 12.09 was the opening of Joy #3: Seasons in the Sun at Schleifmühlgasse 17 1040 Vienna, exhibition curated by Laura Amann Marín with Aleksei Borisionok, Anne Faucheret, KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS, Aziza Harmel, BLOCKFREI Collective, Ekaterina Degot, Fanny Hauser, Francesca Gavin, Liam Gillick, Miguel López, Mirela Baciak, Phila Bergmann & Thea Reifler, Ramesch Daha, Tjaša Pogačar, and WHW.
Each curator invited one artist to create a postcard in relation to Vienna, and this is my contribution. Pass by until October 31st and pick up your package full of postcards made by all the participating artists: Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Chantal Kaufmann, Colm Keady Tabbal, Eliana Otta, Ezra Šimek, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Jakub Jansa, julie béna, Miriam Stoney, Seana Gavin, Sergey Bratkov, Shu Lea Cheang, Vlatka Horvat, Yesmine Ben Khelil, Zina Isupova (through Kriegsbilder), and Željka Aleksić, with a spatial intervention by Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa and visual style by Martins Kohout.
Fragment of the cover from the publication made by students from the course Curatorial Practices and Visual Culture, from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera – Milano.
Very happy to share two texts written about my work by the young students of Curatorship Noemi Adinolfi and Chiara Bianchessi, in the context of Earthly Communities, the collective show curated by Simone Frangi and Lucrezia Cippiletti on view at Kunst Merano until 12/10.
The texts are published in Italian here, and they kindly sent me the English translations:
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