The New Museum invited two scholars to review the work in process, speak with Ensayos practitioners, and contextualize this work in relation with both current scholarship and the broader cultural moment. Una Chaudhuri’s critically influential work on “eco-theatre” and Olivia Michiko Gagnon’s recent theorization of… Keep Reading
Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story was a livestreamed, participatory performance incorporating plant knowledge through ritual, movement and conversation. The event took place on August 18, 2020 as part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages” in celebration of the launch of our online periodical Más… Keep Reading
By Jarrett Earnest, August 6, 2020 The work of Ensayos – a strategically covert group of artists, poets, historians, biologists, lawyers, sociologists, ecologists, activists, policymakers, and local community members, around the globe – is extremely difficult to summarize. And that’s just the way they want it.… Keep Reading
Students in the University of Hartford’s Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA took an Art & Ecology course with Christy Gast and Camila Marambio of Ensayos in June, 2020. Ensayos believes that that imagining a better future requires sound science, aesthetic sensitivity, creative experimentation, collaboration, and systems thinking.… Keep Reading
Randi Nygård of Ensayo #4 has published an essay on the Norwegian platform Artica Writings that contemplates the connection between poetry and the law, specifically the Norwegian legal treatise that governs relationships between society and the marine resources. Artica Svalbard’s series Artica Writings aims to… Keep Reading
While developing the syllabus for “Ensayando Ensayos,” an Art & Ecology course taught by Ensayistas Christy Gast and Camila Marambio for the University of Hartford’s NOMAD Interdisciplinary MFA, we requested that our collaborators and colleagues working in ecology, biology, anthropology, activism, policy management and sociology… Keep Reading
In the current issue of Environmental Humanities, Volume 12, Issue 1, published on May 1, 2020, Ensayos founder, Camila Marambio collaborated with Suzanne Pratt, Killian Quigley, Sarah Hamylton, Leah Gibbs, Adriana Vergés, Michael Adams, Ruth Barcin and Astrida Neimanis defining the term FATHOM. The Living… Keep Reading
ENSAYOS translated the content of a scientific paper (“Toxic effects of polyethylene terephalate microparticles and Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate on the calanoid copepod, Parvocalanus crassirostris“) into the form of a well-known folk song. The rewrite was undertaken in collaboration with ichthyologist Lynne van Herwerden so that her laboratory’s… Keep Reading
The laboratory of our host on Magnetic Island, Dr. Lynne van Herwerden of James Cook University, has published a paper explaining the toxic effects of microplastics and plasticizers at the base of the food web. Keep Reading
A note from Lynne van Herwerden, who hosted Ensayo #4 (Copeo-pod) on Magnetic Island. Keep Reading
Laying on the land, We asked the dreaming to orient our listening. It said, women, your sacred rituals excite the origin. So, we followed the caterpillar east up the mountain. Across the rocky crevice, to the twisted limbs of an ancient gum. There, we rested,… Keep Reading
From the exhibition Everything is possibly an oracle at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Keep Reading
The first season of the short-form web series DISTANCIA is online. Tierra del Fuego resists being grasped by canonical approaches to knowledge. If objective observation, ethnographic interpretation and geographic analysis seem to have exhausted themselves, what other method is there? Or must the query be… Keep Reading
by Sharon Jewell for the The Friendly Bay Islander On Tuesday August 27, a group of four inquisitive and peculiarly talented women from regions as far as Chile and New York, alighted on Canaipa Island. With their large van, Big Mama, loaded for a special… Keep Reading
“What is coastal curriculum?” one asked. “What are we here to learn?” wondered another. Cards were drawn at water’s edge. Lines were traced in the sand. Sticks were raised next to rocks. A snake passed. Voices from different continents threaded memories together. Washed by the… Keep Reading
Full of tunnels and cavities that conjoin Chile and Australia, issue #3 of Más allá del fin is “the honeycomb issue.” (Camila Marambio, from the editorial) To be launched in August 2019 the third issue of Más allá del fin will be published by the… Keep Reading
COMING SOON Distancia Tierra del Fuego 2018, Original Version in Spanish, subtitled in English, color, 7 episodes. Trailer Credits: Director: Carolina Saquel/ Assistant Director: Camila Marambio/ Camera: Philippe Eustachon, Patricio Riquelme, Carolina Saquel/ Sound Design: Ariel Bustamante/ Starring: Ivette Martinez, Julio Gastón Contreras, the wind,… Keep Reading
In the inaugural issue of the River Rail there are articles by four Ensayistas: Christy Gast and Bárbara Saavedra, Admiralty Sound Expedition Report by with an afterword by Dr. Bárbara Saavedra, Camila Marambio, The Go-Between, and Cecilia Vicuña Con Cón, Chile, 1966 – 2006. ___________ Note from… Keep Reading
Un événement inédit de la Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso qui fait dialoguer arts, sciences et société pour imaginer demain. Du vendredi 2 février au samedi 3 février 2018 2 jours et 1 nuit : 36h en continu Entrée libre* Accès aux personnes à mobilité… Keep Reading
Just released: This week’s teaser for Distancia, a TV/web series in production by Ensayo #3 collaborators. DISTANCIA Tierra del Fuego 2018, Original Version in Spanish, subtitled in English, color, 6 episodes. Director: Carolina Saquel/ Assistant Director: Camila Marambio/ Camera: Philippe Eustachon, Patricio Riquelme, Carolina Saquel/… Keep Reading
Just released: This week’s teaser for Distancia, a TV/web series in production by Ensayo #3 collaborators. DISTANCIA (Distance) Tierra del Fuego 2018, Original Version in Spanish, subtitled in English, color, 6 episodes. Director: Carolina Saquel/ Assistant Director: Camila Marambio/ Camera: Philippe Eustachon, Patricio Riquelme, Carolina… Keep Reading
Just released: A teaser from Distancia, a web series in production by Ensayo #3 collaborators. Keep Reading
SANTIAGO, CHILE (September 13, 2017) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet committed on September 11th to create a new marine protected area in Admiralty Sound in Tierra del Fuego. The new “Multiple Use Marine and Coastal Protected Area Seno Almirantazgo” will safeguard rich marine wildlife and… Keep Reading
In Tierra del Fuego, beavers are strangely invisible, and simultaneously ever-present. They are fleeting. One rarely sees a beaver, as they spend their days hidden under tannin-dark waters. Instead, only trace impressions. Rows of chew marks on the bark of a fallen tree. Castoreum’s oily… Keep Reading
As the current ecological crises and different forms of oppression, discrimination and injustice around the globe demonstrate, the questions of the environment and the people, as well as of social and environmental justice, are not isolated from one another. These concerns and connections come to… Keep Reading
Coming soon… DISTANCIA (Distance) Tierra del Fuego 2018, Original Version in Spanish, subtitled in English, color, 6 episodes. Director: Carolina Saquel/ Assistant Director: Camila Marambio/ Camera: Philippe Eustachon, Patricio Riquelme, Carolina Saquel/ Sound Design: Ariel Bustamante/ Sound Engineer: Sebastian Arce/ Art Direction: Maria Luisa Murillo/… Keep Reading
SSSS is a playful first attempt at co-creating a coastal curriculum for Melbourne, a first throw of a skipping stone along the surface of Phillip Bay, that took place during the month of March 2017 thanks to the artist Sean Peoples who offered Camila Marambio… Keep Reading
Catalina Jaramillo interviews Camila Marambio for Perfect Wave Magazine Volume 4 Keep Reading
We are pleased to share the trailer for Tánana, a documentary by our associates in Puerto Williams. ___________ TÁNANA, estar listo para zarpar en lengua yagán, es el regreso de Martín González Calderón al corazón del archipiélago del cabo de Hornos. Don Martín es un artesano yagán,… Keep Reading
Part of a slow process of weaving experiences, ideas and dreams in Narrm Melbourne this is an offering from Sarita Gálvez and Camila Marambio to the rest of the Coastal Curriculum pods (New York, Norway, Tierra del Fuego). First conceived of as a manifesto, today… Keep Reading
Two new folk songs about salmon farming written during the 2016 Sørfinset Skole residency in Norway’s Arctic fjords by participants of Ensayo #4. Keep Reading
Conversacíon entre Christy Gast y Carla Macchiavello (Cuadernos de Arte no.21) Keep Reading
Y qué quiere decir “geografía humana” ? Viaje a Tierra del Fuego. Mediados de noviembre 2016. Santiago, Punta Arenas, Cerro Sombrero ( ENAP), Porvenir, Vicuna, Caleta Maria, Punta Arenas, Santiago. Un viaje improbable – debido a lo próximo en el tiempo con el viaje de enero 2015.… Keep Reading
El Interruptor: lunes a viernes 23 horas por VIA X, con José Miguel Villouta En el sur de nuestra tierra, en Tierra del fuego, en una sociedad milenaria, nómade, en el fin del mundo, mataron a todas las mujeres de un matriarcado…porque las escucharon reír.… Keep Reading
A film about the latest work by Chilean poet and visual artist Tomás Browne, whose studio overlooks the Strait of Magellan in Punta Arenas, Chile. Film by Pablo Fante, currently on view at the Museo Regional de Magallanes in Punta Arenas, Chile. Keep Reading
Kiko Anderson of Caleta Maria, at the terminus of the Pan-American Highway in Tierra del Fuego, asks us to consider this essay by Steven Hollenhorst et al. on appropriately-scaled tourism in remote and ecologically sensitive places: Finally, Steven Hollenhorst, the Dean of Huxley College, and… Keep Reading
FLUX Cecilia Vicuña (Chile), Camila Marambio (Chile), Rob Thorne (NZ), Dylan Martorell, Jacqui Shelton, Richie Cyngler, Brendan Walls, Matt Warren, Pip Stafford, Ragtime Frank, Omahara, lighting installation by Jason James. A project by Liquid Architecture and the Unconscious Collective. Ensayistas Cecilia Vicuña and Camila Marambio… Keep Reading
Why Listen To Animals? The possibilities of meaning when we listen to animals and they listen to us. THU 29 Sep – SAT 22 Oct 2016 7PM-10PM West Space Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne Wheelchair Accessible FREE This experimental project by Liquid Architecture reframes English… Keep Reading
ICI’S 2016 INDEPENDENT VISION CURATORIAL AWARD NOMINEES Established in 2010 as an initiative of the Gerrit Lansing Education Fund, the Independent Vision Curatorial Award reflects ICI’s commitment to supporting international curators early in their careers who have shown exceptional creativity and prescience in their exhibition-making,… Keep Reading
Investigations into Coastal Culture, Gildeskål, Norway, July 20th – 30th, 2016 With Ensayo #4 The boat as a floating studio and research station: After 14 steady years on land, Sørfinnset skole/the nord land will, this summer, go to sea. Artistic investigations of the archipelago of Gildeskål… Keep Reading
In Tierra del Fuego, where the Atlantic meets the Pacific, land and sea are not so much interwoven as fractured—splintered and shattered. At the southern terminus of the Andes, it is as if the mountains are using the remainder of their geological force to dive… Keep Reading
By Denise Milstein I joined in the Ensayos collaborative in the summer of 2015. By then, the group had been collecting a multi-media archive of its discussions, experiments, and activities for over four years. It was time to take stock of the paths Ensayos had… Keep Reading
During Randi Nygård and Karolin Tampere´s stay as artists in residence in the scientist village Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen, they got an request from the local Air traffic controller to make an exhibition. Taking on this challenge they invited residents and scientists of the town to an… Keep Reading
En los ochentas y noventas yo pasaba largos meses del año en Buenos Aires, participando de una comunidad de pensadores de la amerindia. Gracias a nuestro amigo José Pérez Gollán, director del Museo Etnográfico de la UBA, conocí la obra de Anne Champan sobre los… Keep Reading
Fieldwork conducted by Christy Gast (artist), Alejandro Villa (biologist) and Marcela Uhart (veterinarian) during the 7th marine expedition to Bahía Jackson in February 2016. Keep Reading
April 1, 2016 MILAN—The Institute for Art and Olfaction is pleased to announce the finalists for the third annual Art and Olfaction Awards, to be held at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on May 7, 2016. This announcement took place in a special ceremony… Keep Reading
By Christy Gast for the Miami Rail March 2016 On December 26 I set off for a trip mas allá del fin, beyond the end of the world, with the Ensayos research and residency program in Tierra del Fuego. There, the Andes shatter toward Antarctica,… Keep Reading
Commission for “Wild living resources belong to society as a whole”, group show at Kurant, Tromsø, Norway, march 2016 Triggered by « A Descent into the Maelstrom » short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the video Untitled (High Waters ) relates to my interest in nature… Keep Reading
The Director of the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, Emilie Villez, took part in a seminar about artistic research organized by Sandra Delacourt, Katia Schneller, and Vanessa Theodoroupoulou. Villez spoke about her involvement in the exhibition “Beyond the End” at Kadist in 2014. The transcription… Keep Reading
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Christy Gast’s field notes from the beaver experiment at Estancia Vicuña January 31st, 2016 I borrowed a shovel from the guarda parques at Karukinka and walked across the pamapa and the turba towards the river that flows in front of Estancia Vicuña. There, I had… Keep Reading
Por cinco años, un programa de investigación ha explorado nuevas maneras de aportar a la conservación de la biodiversidad de Tierra del Fuego integrando el punto de vista del arte y las ciencias sociales en un ámbito que es mayoritariamente científico y eco-político. Article on… Keep Reading
“La carte géographique n’est pas le territoire” (Serge Daney) El mapa no es el territorio Sobre proceso, procedimiento, tierras, mapas, bordes, propiedad en Caleta Maria Ivette Martinez Carolina Saquel Caleta Maria enero 2016 Keep Reading
Camila Marambio’s field notes 1st day (January 8, 2016): Site selection, scent mound recognition, experimental scent mound molding, spraying scent mounds The work of today was collective. Cristina, Julián and Christy and I sourced the material for building the mounds. We dug mud from the river… Keep Reading
Julián Donas Milstein, age 10–There is a large field, bugs and animals in the tall grass that surrounds me. The grass prickles my skin. The ground mushy, old charcoals from a campfire long gone. An icy peak, towering over the landscape. What adventures await? As my eyes… Keep Reading
31 de diciembre de 2015 exterior, camino, noche, movimiento. En la camioneta conduce Julio Gaston Contreras, copiloto Camila Marambio, pasajeros en asientos traseros Carolina Saquel, Julian Donas Milstein, Denise Milstein. Nuestra Primera experiencia de lugar y encuentro material con Tierra del Fuego se hizo casi despidiendo… Keep Reading
Karolin Tampere, Randi Nygård, and Camila Marambio of The Ensayos Residency Program, a research initiative to engage in matters related to the political ecology of Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia. Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia is a landmark that, despite its remoteness, can function as… Keep Reading
Geir Tore Holm Exerpt of performance transcript Stronger than Stone, Saskatoon/ Trials of an Archipelago, BHQF, NYC (2015): SO RICH. SO GREAT. SHE SO GREAT! IN THE OCEANS IS THE ORIGIN I COME FROM THE GULF STREAM WATERS OH, IT´S SO HOT! I AM THE… Keep Reading
Sesión de trabajo Ensayo # 3 Bruce High Quality Foundation, NYC, noviembre 2015 Camila Marambio (Cma), Carla Macchiavello (CM), Carolina Saquel (CS) elaborando sobre un manifiesto, televisión, referencias, direcciones posibles (transcripción que mantiene el tono coloquial, las risas, los modismos chilenos) CM…a comunicar lo de la… Keep Reading
Difficulty of Crossing a Plane by Carolina Saquel, screened at BHQFU during the Trials on an Archipelago seminar, November 4, 2015 Keep Reading
Carolina Saquel’s video Untitled (Landscape), screened at FUG during the BHQFU seminar in New York, November 4, 2015 Keep Reading
By Giorgia Graells for Ciencia Austral Hoy mientras desayunaba leí una revista local de Harrisburg PA, muy parecida a esas que los estadounidenses hacen para que los turistas conozcan una ciudad o estado, sin embargo esta tenía harto contenido, entrevistas y notas desde la comunidad… Keep Reading
Denise Milstein and Christy Gast discuss their networking project and Ensayos residency at BHQFU FUG gallery in October 2015–the fourth track on this edition of Clocktower Radio Keep Reading
Ensayos #2 project Dear Enemy is featured in this article by Andi for Atlas Obscura In 1946, a group of Canadian beavers got a free one-way ticket to Argentina. Specifically, they were headed for the archipelago Tierra del Fuego, a swath of islands on the… Keep Reading
By Carla Machiavello for Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics On Saturday, June 7, 2014, a curious event took place at the auditorium of the National Museum of Natural History (Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle) in Paris, France. In a setting that combined a theater of… Keep Reading
By Camila Marambio for the for the Miami Rail This conversation took place on two different occasions at the same restaurant in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in February and early March 2015. The curiosity that sparked this exchange is the recent move by the art historian and curator… Keep Reading
Dr. Laura Ogden (anthropologist, Dartmouth College) opens the University of Kentucky’s Dimensions of Political Ecology conference Plenary Panel with a lecture on her work with Ensayos in Tierra del Fuego. Keep Reading
During Cecilia Vicuña’s recent busy visit to Santiago, Camila Marambio spoke with her at her childhood home. The relaunching of her 2006 LP “Kuntur Ko” by the independent New York record label Hueso Records brought her home to offer a series of timely performances and… Keep Reading
Christy Gast was awarded a grant from the Art Matters Foundation to develop a scent in order to facilitate communication between humans and beavers in Tierra del Fuego. The project, Dear Enemy, will be developed with Ensayos collaborators at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in… Keep Reading
Camila Marambio, Bárbara Saavedra and Christy Gast discuss the exhibition Beyond the End at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, April 2014. Keep Reading
At Paris Kadist Art Foundation an experimental format, based on cooperation between scientists, artists and members of the local community, analyzes how species inhabit an area and alter the natural and cultural space of the other species in the Tierra del Fuego. By Giusy Checola… Keep Reading
Work-week: Amanda Piña’s performances Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, June 11, 2014 Inspired by the performative practices of “Fake Healing” and “Les Soins esthétiques” developed by choreographers Jennifer Lacey and Keith Hennessy, the performer and choreographer Amanda Piña led two explorations on Tuesday and on Thursday, conceived… Keep Reading
Work-week, day 6: Laura A. Ogden, “Speculative Wonder at the World’s End” Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, June 10, 2014 Friday’s talk at Sciences Po – with a large audience including members of Sciences Po’s SPEAP program and Nanterre University’s “Chantiers de l’écologie politique“ seminar, organised… Keep Reading
Beyond the End, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris Session at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, June 7, 2014 Where: Benoit Hické, who made this event possible in the beautiful auditorium of the Galeries d’Anatomie comparée et de Paléonthologie, told us that the Museum was built on… Keep Reading
Talk: Laura Ogden & Émilie Hache, mediated by Florencia Grisanti Musée de la Chasse, June 4, 2014 Extending Beyond the End’s horizons to yet another corner of the world, anthropologist Laura Ogden took us on an evocative journey through the swamplands of the Florida Everglades,… Keep Reading
Demonstration of Warmth by the Cold Kadist Art Foundation, Paris Last night (Thursday, June 5) at Kadist we were Geir Tore Holm and Søssa Jørgensen’s guests. With Karolin Tampere’s help, they welcomed us with a cocktail made of vodka and herbs grown in 24 hours… Keep Reading
Work-week: day 2 Kadist Art Foundation, June 4, 2014 The second day of the work week was dedicated to delving into the history and subjective experience of living in Tierra del Fuego. Maria Luisa Murillo’s photographic work addresses issues of territory, immigration and nostalgia from… Keep Reading
Screening of Paris is Burning and presentation by Fabienne Lasserre June 3, 2014 Encouraging us to look and think beyond immediate geographical and cultural contexts to reflect on gender relations and the ways in which they may come into being, be maintained and affect a… Keep Reading
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, June 2, 2014 Rarely do seminars begin by turning to whoever is sitting next to one to randomly talk about whatever is passing through one’s mind. Especially if one is asked to do in the language one feels most comfortable in,… Keep Reading
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris Work-week: day one, June 2, 2014 What are the politics and power-relations inherent in decision-making? How may empathy and intuition be included in scientific research? What place could art have in conservation science? Does emotion play a role in a research… Keep Reading
By weaving anthropology, sociology, and philosophy, the French thinker Bruno Latour has positioned himself at the frontier of Science Studies, a flexible and searching response to the Anthropocene. This September, he spoke to Miami Rail contributor Camila Marambio about dance, the climate, and the importance of… Keep Reading
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Bárbara Saavedra’s article, printed in La Panera Keep Reading
Laura Ogden’s article, published in La Panera. Keep Reading
Camila Marambio’s article, published in La Panera. Keep Reading
Archeological survey of an abandoned beaver dam, led by Melissa Memory during the Ensayo #2 residency at Estancia Vicuña, Karukinka Natural Park, Tierra del Fuego in January, 2013. Keep Reading
By Nathaniel Sandler for WLRN In 1946, a bizarre cargo shipment stopped over at the Pan American Airlines headquarters in Miami. En route to Tierra del Fuego, the southern most tip of South America, fifty North American Beavers were temporarily housed in a walk-in refrigerator… Keep Reading
Profile on Giorgia Graells and Derek Corcoran in Revista Paula. Keep Reading
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At Lago Blanco, during the first Ensayos residency, participants answer the question: Why are you here? Daniela Drouget, WCS Chile marine biologist Christy Gast, artist from USA Geir Tore Holm, Norwegian artist Juan Pablo Langlois, Chilean artist Søssa Jørgensen, Norwegian artist Kiko, eco-activist from USA… Keep Reading
Download Søssa Jørgensen’s presentation to the group during the Ensayo #1 residency. Keep Reading
Melissa Memory’s presentation during the first Ensayo: For much of the history of humans, People have used the landscapes around them to achieve their own ends. As people began to build cities, the wild places disappeared within and along the edges. Until all of the… Keep Reading