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Laboratory Theatre Curatorial project In this laboratory, formed in a two-year program, Umpierrez invited and commissioned two artists to create eight performances, eight happenings, which rehearse on some recurring topics of Argentine politics in the last 50 years. 2007. LABORATORIO 1. Created by Gustavo Tarrío. 2008. LABORATORIO 2. Created by José María Muscari. #CuratorialProject

Previous slide Next slide Work in Progress Panorama Curatorial projects This program presents a panorama in process, a space of search, of rehearse, of errors, of achievements, of proofs. Different artistic creators bring the public closer to an intimate, fragile landscape, a composition that tries to be a project, a material or a show. 2010.

Previous slide Next slide Rojas Interventions Curatorial projects Biannual Site-Specific Interventions program curated by Matías Umpierrez: 2009. In a School: UNA OBRA ÚTIL (A useful work). Concept and Directed by Gerardo Naumann. 2007. In an Apartment building: INTERIORES (Interiors) created by Federico Marrale, Mariano Pensotti, Matías Sendón, Mariana Tirantte. Directed by Mariano Pensotti. #CuratorialProject #CuratorialProject

Previous slide Next slide Parallel Worlds program Curatorial projects This project brings together a series of theater pieces that reflect parallel worlds, perhaps possible or not, of some physical/virtual/emotional system that exists or could exist… even if it is in fiction. Five plays are placed on stage, saturated territories, wars in unsuspected cosmographies, duplicate realities,

Previous slide Next slide Performance Revolution Rojas Curatorial project During 2010, the year of the 200th anniversary of Argentina’s independence revolution, Umpierrez reflects on the term “revolution” and invites three artists, from different disciplines, to produce performances during 8 happenings. The invited artists were: REGISTRO, UN CENSO BICENTENARIO (REGISTRATION, A BICENTENNIALCENSUS). Written and Directed by Oria

Previous slide Next slide Classic Project Curatorial project As in other disciplines, in theater it is customary to call “classics” those plays that, defying the passage of time, continue to stimulate the contemporary scene. However, reviving them usually requires large productions, which makes it difficult to update them in smaller formats. In ProyectoClásico we have

Previous slide Next slide Unknown Urbanity Curatorial project From the photographic images of a specific space, located in a certain geography of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), artists from India and Lebanon, who have never visited the location or know its history, construct fictional texts that are not necessarily related with the present of

Previous slide Next slide Operas Primas Curatorial project Matías Umpierrez created in 2007 a program that promotes the debut of young artists in the performing arts and that is still in place at the Rector Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center of the University of Buenos Aires. The Óperas Primas program has so far supported more than

Previous slide Next slide Instructions Manual Project Curatorial project This project starts from the premise of creating performances and theatrical pieces from non-dramatic variables. During 2011, 2012, 1013 a series of creators put in crisis instruction manuals of uses and services to build performances and performances. The plays and performances commissioned for this program were:

Previous slide Next slide Decentralized exhibition Curatorial project This project puts the work of a visual artist with extensive experience in dialogue with the exhibition of his work in various media, outside of conventional exhibition spaces. In its first edition, it was a journey through the work of the artist/photographer Nacho Iasparra, who exhibited part

Previous slide Next slide The International Dramaturgy Festival Festival The International Dramaturgy Festival goes further into the centre of its endeavour and reflects on its own contemporary existence. From a transdisciplinary perspective, we encourage dialogue among different ways of dramaturgic production, curatorial practices, theatre, dance, performance, visual arts, cinema, philosophy, music, sociology and social activism.

Dramaturgy in motion Curatorial project How the movement created by a choreographer and a choreographer who compose from afar can affect the body of a performer located miles away? Can movements without bodies emigrate and immigrate? This project invites choreographers to design and compose pieces that will be reinterpreted by other choreographers from a distance.

Plataforma Fluorescente (Fluorescent Platform) Creation platform Matias Umpierrez is the artistic director and founder, together with Malena Schnitzer, of Plataforma Fluorescente a transdisciplinary device that promotes collaboration between artist, creators, and institutions from different geographies. Since 2014 this device has collaborated with 50 institutions around the world and more than 400 creators from countries such

Previous slide Next slide Decalogue, inquiries about the 10 commandments Curatorial project During 2008/2009, 10 theater directors from Argentina and 10 playwrights from Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain, investigate the universe of moral theology and question its political incidence in the present, resulting in 10 theatrical performances. LA GRACIA, AMARÁS A DIOS SOBRE TODAS LAS COSAS

DRAMATURGY FOR A CONFERENCE Curatorial project Fluorescent Platform Creation platform The International Dramaturgy Festival Festival Manual Project Curatorial project Unknown urbanity Curatorial project Performance Revolution Rojas Curatorial project Rojas Interventions Curatorial project Theater Laboratory Curatorial project Decalogue, inquiries on the 10 commandments Curatorial project Dramaturgy in motion Curatorial project Decentralized exhibition Curatorial project OPERAS PRIMAS