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The emblematic performers, ambassadors in activism and mobilization of feminist urgencies since 2018, today take the kitchen and its domestic dimension linked to gender roles, as a symbolic and representative space, to articulate their own songs with theories, demands, historical and also current denunciations of feminisms; such as the fight for the right to abortion, the fight against domestic violence, the body as resistance, the right to migrate, among others, giving life to “Songs to Cook.”
In this proposal, LASTESIS build a live sound and visual universe, with songs, poems, and essays from a multimedia staging. This concert/intervention travels through sounds, voices and rhythms that pierce consciences, empower ideas and mobilize forces.
In this task they are accompanied by the performers and activists Organa Feminazi, Azul from House of Trinity and Dominga from House of Titania.
“March is always a month in which we gain strength as feminists to inhabit all possible platforms and thus promote actions that then continue to develop and mobilize over time” They point out from the collective.
It is in this context that “Songs for Cooking” seeks to be an instance of agitation for the feminist struggle. Its only performance in Santiago will be on the esplanade of the Matucana Cultural Center 100 this Saturday, March 9 at 9 p.m.
“We hope to continue replicating the performance in other regions and throughout the year because we know well that the feminist struggle is not limited to just one month. We need to find ourselves because that is the force that reminds us that we are not alone, and that there is still so much to defend and fight.”
In the Valparaíso region, three instances were confirmed to be part of “Songs to cook”; on March 23 at the San Antonio Theater and on March 29 and 30 at the Valparaíso Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park.
IN CHILDREN
LASTESIS is an artistic, interdisciplinary and feminist collective from Valparaíso, Chile, composed of Daffne Valdés Vargas and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem. They are dedicated to disseminating feminist theses and demands through performance and video performance, combining performing, sound, graphic and visual arts, with history, philosophy and social sciences.
His performances include: Patriarchy and Capital is a criminal alliance (2018); the rapist is you (2020); RESISTANCE or the vindication of a collective right (2021), The city of the future together with Delight Lab (2022), Songs for cooking (2023) and the street intervention a rapist in your path (2019), replicated in more than 50 countries.
Various publications are added to her stage work, such as: Feminist Polyphonies (Random House, 2022), Feminist Anthology (Debate, 2021); Burn fear (Planeta, 2021) translated into German (S. Fisher, 2021), Italian (Capovolte, 2022) and English (Verso, 2023) and About wild Capitalism & its patriarchal Performance in our lives (In Why Theater Golden Book, NTGent, 2020), among others.
They have participated in various festivals, museums, universities, fairs, congresses and feminist meetings in Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, United States, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Scotland and the United Kingdom. United in person, and about twenty countries join virtually.
They have also received multiple recognitions, including the Jaime Castillo Velasco Award from the Chilean Human Rights Commission (2020), the Design of the Year Award in the digital category (2020), The Design Museum, United Kingdom, and recognition by the magazine TIME in The 2020 TIME100, TIME’s list of the world’s most influential people.
Coordinates: Saturday, March 9, 9:00 p.m.; Pre-sale 1: $4,000; Pre-sale 2: $6,000; General: $8,000. Esplanade, Outdoors 60 min.