Mediaturgias, operaciones de montaje y etnoficciones With Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden

Performative conference within the framework of the PEI: Methods of Collective Creation module.

On the occasion of their participation as guest artists in the María Teresa Hincapié: If This Were a Beginning of Infinity exhibition at MACBA, the founders and directors of Mapa Teatro, Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden, will give a presentation as part of the PEI based on their artistic career, and will also explain the principles, tactics and production methods of their most recent ethnofictions. For forty years, this artists’ laboratory located in Bogotá, Colombia has continued developing un-disciplined work that cuts across different media and transcends artistic disciplines. Its founders and directors, Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden, are transdisciplinary artists, trained in the fields of dramaturgy and visual art, and are pioneers of the concept of live arts in Latin America. From the framework of theatre to the public space, passing through the museum, cinema and radio, Mapa Teatro has expanded its cartography to become, through multiple assembly  operations, a complex laboratory of the social imagination. The establishment of temporary experimental communities and the production of ethnofictions make up two of its main thought-creation practices.