Ensayo #4 exhibition at Kurant, Tromsø, Norway in March 2016 Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole 11.03 Opening 19.00 12.-13.03 Open Exhibition 12:00 – 17:00 12.03 Performance by Søssa Jørgensen 14:00 12.03 Film screening at Verdensteatret followed by a talk. The… … Keep Reading
WHEN January 13-15, 2016 WHAT Camila Marambio and Christy Gast were invited to observe Whale Sound, a joint tourism and scientific effort, during a two-night cruise to their base camp at Isla Carlos III. For three days and two nights, scientists and tourists navigated through… … Keep Reading
WHEN January 5-10 (Miguelito) and January 29-February 4 (Vicuña), 2016 WHAT The goal was to implement the Beaver Research Plan developed by ecologist Derek Corcoran and biologist Giorgia Graells during the residency at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in 2015. WHY To determine whether humans and beavers… … 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
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
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
As a result of a collaborative inquiry about how to approach the conflict between humans and beavers in Tierra del Fuego, artist Christy Gast, curator Camila Marambio, ecologist Derek Corcoran and biologist Giorgia Graells have taken to experimenting with the fabrication of scents that would… … Keep Reading
WHEN 27/04/2015 – 13/05/2015 WHAT Randi Nygård and Karolin Tampere travelled together to the scientist village Ny-Ålesund on Spitsbergen where they spend two weeks. In this place the environment is monitored from various international research stations. From the village they made one day excursions on… … 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
WHEN November 9-23, 2014 WHAT A nomadic recognition of some of the critical zones of Tierra del Fuego’s coastal areas. After which Camila Marambio, Karolin Tampere and Alfredo Prieto spent some time in Puerto Arturo, Última Esperanza digesting the experience and projecting a future for… … 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
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
Invited by the curator Camila Marambio, 18 artists and scientists from Chile, Norway, US and Canada met in Tierra del Fuego for 10 days to discuss the “use” of bringing artists and social scientists into the research program at Karukinka Natural Park, a Wildlife Conservation… … Keep Reading