LISTEN HERE As part of our digital residency at the New Museum, Ensayos has launched three podcasts. Drawing from Ensayos’s transdisciplinary work, these podcasts focus on waters in different archipelagic regions, including Tierra del Fuego, New York, eastern Australia, and Norway. Journalist Catalina Jaramillo guides… … Keep Reading
Tuesday, June 23 at 2 PM EST. RSVP required. Register here for this program. This conversation takes the second season of the Ensayos web series “DISTANCIA” as a starting point to discuss the ethical dimensions of storytelling. Specifically, DISTANCIA collaborators will explore situated identity in relation to the physical, social, historical, and… … Keep Reading
DISTANCIA Season Two premieres here on June 15, 2020 as part of Ensayos’ residency at the New Museum. Direct link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7223262 Tierra del Fuego is remote to many in both physical distance and in the imagination, yet the archipelago at the tip of South America’s southern… … Keep Reading
From the exhibition Everything is possibly an oracle at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia … Keep Reading
Save the date: Christy Gast will perform ¿’Onde va la lancha?, a performance lecture set in Tierra del Fuego’s Admiralty Sound, on Friday, October 6 at 7 pm in the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Rivera Court. _____________ The Detroit Institute of Arts and James Pearson Duffy Department… … 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
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
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
Discipline and Ensayos, along with Gertrude Contemporary, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and The Alderman, are pleased to present three lectures on recent Chilean art and art historiography by Chilean art historian, Carla Macchiavello. The lectures will take place at three different venues in… … Keep Reading
Christy Gast: ¿’Onde va la lancha? Date: Wednesday 13 July 2016 Location: Gertrude Contemporary Time: 6pm for a 6.30pm start, finishing approximately at 8.30pm. Discipline, Ensayos, and Gertrude Contemporary are pleased to present ¿’Onde va la lancha? a performance by artist, Christy Gast. The evening will be convened by Camila Marambio.… … Keep Reading
Session: The Cultural Dimension of Innovation Processes Oral Presentation: Trials in Tierra Del Fuego 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology Thursday, 14 July 2016: 16:00 Location: Hörsaal 34 (Main Building) Denise MILSTEIN, Sociology, Columbia University, USA This paper examines the emergence of innovation and the articulation… … 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
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
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
WHEN February 8-18, 2016 WHAT Christy Gast was invited to join the Wildlife Conservation Society of Chile’s 7th Marine Expedition to the Admiralty Sound as artist-in-residence. Along with two veterinarians, three biologists, a ranger from Karukinka Natural Park and four sailors, the group set out… … 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
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
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
“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
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
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
Press Release “It’s gettin’ hot down here” Ensayos: Trials on an Archipelago Closing Reception: Saturday, November 14th, 6-9pm FUG: 431 East 6th Street, Basement BHQFU, New York’s Freest Art School, is pleased to present TRIALS ON AN ARCHIPELAGO, a residency, seminar, and exhibition focusing on… … 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
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
BHQFU, New York’s Freest Art School, is pleased to present TRIALS ON AN ARCHIPELAGO, a residency, seminar, and exhibition focusing on Ensayos, a nomadic research program based in Tierra del Fuego (TdF) at FUG (Foundation University Gallery). Since 2010, Ensayos has brought together artists, scientists… … Keep Reading
Dear Enemy by Ensayos (Camila Marambio, Christy Gast, Derek Corcoran, Giorgia Graells) September 28 – October 10, 2015 Research in Tierra Del Fuego, Chile Exhibition and Residency at The Institute for Art and Olfaction A TEAM OF ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS CREATE A PERFUME DESIGNED TO… … 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
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
About Ensayos workshop at Paris Climat 2015: The artists from Ensayos (Randi Nygård, Christy Gast, Carolina Saquel and Karolin Tampere) shared performative tools and radical listening techniques developed through fieldwork experiments focusing on sensitizing to, being with or becoming non-human actors in Patagonia and… … 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
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
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
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
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
Performance + Artes visuales realizadas el miércoles 22 de Febrero 2014 en la ciudad de Puerto Williams por Camila Marambio y Christy Gast. Festival Cielos del Infinito, Museo Martín Gusinde … 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
Christy Gast travels from Miami, where she lives and works, to meet Camila Marambio in Santiago. Both travel to Punta Arenas to board a plane to Puerto Williams the morning of January 14, 2014. They stay in Isla Navarino, spending their time between the forests… … Keep Reading
Bárbara Saavedra’s article, printed in La Panera … Keep Reading
Ensayos es un programa de investigación -en colaboración con el Parque Karukinka- donde artistas, científicos y habitantes de la región contemplan y practican movimientos relacionados a la ecología. Como el manejo de los castores, uno de los objetos de conservación más apremiantes para la región.… … Keep Reading
Camila Marambio’s article, published in La Panera. … 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
WHEN 10-21 January, 2013 WHAT Camila Marambio, Christy Gast, Melissa Memory and Laura Ogden meet in Buenos Aires, then travel together to Ushuaia, Argentina, where they spend a period of 10 days staying at the Argentine Center of Scientific Research (CADIC). From there they travel… … Keep Reading
Profile on Giorgia Graells and Derek Corcoran in Revista Paula. … Keep Reading
By Camila Marambio for La Panera … Keep Reading
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
WHAT 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… … Keep Reading
