Seba Calfuqueo
Situar el cuerpo
Performance and Visual Arts Workshop

22 – 25 October

Lisboa – Espaço BoCA Biennial 2025 Workshop, performance, Visual Arts

In this workshop, which results from a public performance-exchange and a conference held by the artist at EspaçoBoCA, she seeks to provoke a contemporary reflection on the relationship between humans and what we understand as nature, opening a rupture through which are able to realise that these two concepts can coexist. The artist aims to dismantle the anthropocentric view of the landscape as something that humans inhabit or seek to benefit from, thus encouraging the onlooker to consider the imposed relationships we develop with that same landscape.

Seba Calfuqueo’s work draws on her cultural heritage and life experience as a starting point for a critical reflection on social, cultural and political dynamics surrounding the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean and Latin-American society.

Her artistic practice is presented through performance, installation, ceramics and video, with the aim of analysing the cultural similarities and differences between Indigenous cosmologies and Western thought, as well as their consequent stereotypes, while also using research and visual resources and techniques to examine colonial domination. Furthermore, her work addresses topics from feminism, gender studies and environmental rights, grounded in a First Nations perspective within an embodied vision.

©Diego Argote
©Dani Cantó

Biography
Sebastiana (Seba) Calfuqueo (She/They, b. Santiago, Chile, 1991), Mapuche Trans Artist and Curator in Espacio218 based in Santiago de Chile. Is also part of the Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü collective and Yene Revista. Her work is part of the collections of museums and art galleries such as TATE Modern (England), Centre Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (USA), MALBA Museum (Argentina), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), KADIST collection (France), the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - MAC RS (Brazil), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile), and MAC (Chile). She participated in the 60th Biennale of Venice, the Whitney Biennial, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, the 12th Bienal de Mercosur and 22nd Bienal Paiz.
She was awarded by Fundación FAVA in 2018, by Eyebeam’s Fractal Fellowships Program in 2020, by Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA in 2023, and Premio Cuervo by Zona Maco in 2024.

Sessions

22 – 25.10.25

Espaço BoCA, Lisboa

18:00 – 21:00, 18:00 – 21:00, 18:00 – 21:00, 10:00 – 13:00, 16:00 – 17:00

World premier

Audience
M/16, students, visual and performing arts professionals and people interested in the proposed themes.
Details of the sessions
22.10 - Conversation with artist from 18h to 19h00 (free admission)
22.10 - Workshop from 19h30 to 21h
23.10 - Workshop from 6pm to 9pm
24.10 - Workshop from 6pm to 9pm
25.10 - Workshop from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
25.10 - Public sharing of workshop results, 4pm to 5pm (free admission)
Participation price
Normal: 40€
Students and GDA Foundation Cooperating Artists: 20€
Registration
Applications through the form until 20/10/2025 HERE
Refund Policy
Refunds only apply to cancellations made by 15 October 2025.
Production
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisboa)
Parceria
GDA Foundation
Support
República Portuguesa - Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Fundação Millennium bcp, Iberecena/Iberescena, Junta de Freguesia de Misericórdia
How to get there
Espaço BoCA is located between Santos and Cais do Sodré.
Entrance at Rua do Instituto Industrial 14, 1200-225 Lisbon.

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