LA REVOLUCIÓN DES-INDUSTRIAL

Arte y Desindustrialización Prácticas artísticas en la región del Biobío 2025 Seminar organized by Elixabete Ansa, Universidad Católica de Chile. Image from Instagram of Universidad Catolica

How to deindustrialize our artistic practices, 2025 This seminar took place in October and November 2022, at the GCAS Art Department. In its description, the seminar invited participants to explore, during its four sessions, the “transformation of the artistic practices by de-industrialization and how to create personal/collective alternatives beside the current contradictions of that global phenomenon.” check it out:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FG8D4CH4 

Prefix-industriality, 2024 Published in: On Transindustriality - TETI Journal n.1 Edited by TETI, Switzerland. *Thanks to Transformers, Brussels for the studio-space. Link:   https://www.tetigroup.org/pdfs/TETIJOURNAL1_Cruces.pdf   Link: https://www.tetigroup.org/teti-press-journal.html  

La Revolución Des-industrial, 2024 Presentation of the process for mentors and artists. Organized by Forecast, Berlin and hosted by SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Link: https://saltonline.org/en/2783/forecast-condensed-istanbul-acik-cagri Photo: Arel Siviş  

Working Class Hero, 2024 Based in the song by John Lennon, musician and activist.  Showed in the collective exhibition:  L'amitié déplace des montagnes.   MudLa, Brussels. Link: https://www.reconversionruina.org/post/763432594587123712/afiche-exhibido-en-las-exhibici%C3%B3n   Credits: Chris Valens

Marmara is Dead, 2024 Based in the investigation by Levent Artüz, turkish scientist. Archive: Cartografia Sonora AOIR, Chile. Link:  https://www.aoir.cl/cartografia/registro/marmara-ha-muerto/  

Artist? And what else do you do?, 2022 Encounter XI. Publication #11 Co-editors: Nihan Somay, Eduardo Cruces, Louise Mestrallet and Cristian Valenzuela. Launch of the zine in Transformers, Brussels. Link : https://artiste-et-sinon-tu-fais-quoi.hotglue.me/  

How to deindustrialize our artistic practices?, 2022 Collaboration with Francisco Gonzalez and Hellen Rollins. Organized by Art Department of GCAS, Ireland. Link:  https://gcascollege.ie/how-to-deindustrialize-our-artistic-practices  

Cordones Des-industriales (a dialogue), 2021 Co-created with Nihan Somay. Hosted by édhea, Sierre, Switzerland. Organized by Swiss Artistic Research Network. Link: https://traversingtopologies.org/Cordones-Des-industriales-a-dialogue  

Poetics of Art and De-industrialization, 2021 Co-created with Nihan Somay. Hosted by PASAJ, Türkiye. Link: https://en.pasaj.org/eduardo-cruces   Credits: Pasaj

Microreview of Cordones Des-industriales, 2021 Editor: Erin Mallon Organization: SARN, Switzerland Link: https://sarn.ch/publications/microreview-cordones-des-industriales  

Cultural-Creative-Content De-industries De-iCCC The title refers to the epistemic impacts of different industries applied on the art practices from a critical point of view since the beginning of XX century, such as Cultural Industries , Creative Industries and the contemporary Content Industry (Des-ICCC). Thus, the methodology in this part of the research is based on a collaborative creation with still alive and also dead artists, poets, musicians and scientists, people and intellectuals who are concerned about these topics. A dialogue through art as an act of solidarity and resistance against the logics of the market applied to us.  The ongoing process of this research included a collection of readymades, sounds, posters and performances. Also, workshops, publications, seminars, etc. and activities or events where the research is disseminate it.

Glossary of Visual Arts, 2020 Artists from different conflict zones in Chile and Mapuche indigenous land. Curated by Natascha de Cortillas and C arla Macchiavello. Organized by CEDOC-CNCA. Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1khqL6DCmFYV33XvUCUSDLmiVRULezb_S/view?usp=sharing

GCAS-LA Glosario, 2020  Independent researchers from The Americas / Abya Yala.  Organized by GCAS-LA. Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyoJkhCuEnwZHFo8rieLc2a5Z13IuS11/view?usp=sharing  

School of No-Work, 2019  Artists from various latitudes of Hispanic countries and Europe. Collective meeting in France-Switzerland. Editor: Patricio Gil Flood. Associated institutions: ESAAA, Annecy, France. Link:  http://www.ecoledunontravail.org/2021/03/notes-pour-un-glossaire-publication.html   Credits: Patricio Gil Flood

Art, Environment and Periphery, 2020 Art collectives from several Latin American countries. Online meetings. Organized by CRA, Argentina Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRzdUjivK-FPf1tTeolxkJM5mBZa0Q0P/view?usp=sharing

Art and Communities, 2018  Artists and activists from Conception province, Chile. Editors: Susana Chau (Toda la Teoría del Universo), Viviana Peirano (Asociación Pintores de Chile - filial Concepción), Claudia Rivera (Asociación Grabadores del Biobío), Eduardo Cruces (Mesa8). Link: https://www.academia.edu/43000529/Arte_y_Comunidades  

De-industrial Belts De-iBelts Cordones Des-industriales is an ensemble of words in different glossaries, rooted in cordon sanitaire due to the pandemic, cordones industriales organized by workers in early 1970’s in Chile, cordones montañosos of The Andes and cordones humanitarios . But above all, it refers to the words that are uttered in the fragmented landscapes of the global synchronicity and aims to be a network of temporary junctures in tune, between post-industrial zones, sacrifice zones, transit zones, reconversion zones. This dialogue takes place through a series of cuts, marks and fissures of convulsion between artistic practices and social movements. The main content of this collection of collective glossaries were proposed by many art collectives and researchers during quarantine Covid-19, where the objective was to build a common space of reflection and acting together. Included collaborations from México, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Brasil, Perú, Argentina, Spain, Chi...

Prácticas Artísticas hacia la Des-industrialización: el caso del Ferrocarril. Alberto Morreo (VE), Alexandra Méndez (PR), Antonio Catrileo (CL), Carla Cimarrona (CL) , David Arancibia (CL), Elina Rodríguez (AR), Jorge Galaviz (UY), Leslie Fernández (CL), Omar Puebla (EC), Vania Caro (CL). Editors: Clara Bolívar y Eduardo Cruces. Translation: Alexandra Méndez.  A collaboration between GCAS-LA and Encounter Art and Deindustrialization Link:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_EUkmuKuHHtIN3vYdGbLDVkNTwFQYRas/view?usp=sharing   Credits: Clara Bolivar

Concepción, Coronel, Penco, Talcahuano, 2021-2022 CRA (AR), AOIR (CL), Jorge Galaviz (UY-MX), David Arancibia (CL), Clara Bolívar (MX), Vania Caro (CL), Carla Cimarrona (CL), Omar Puebla (EC). Website:  https://arteydesindustrializacion.hotglue.me/   Credits: Oscar Concha

Lota, Chile Niños y Niñas de La Caleta (CL), Daniela Guerrero (CL), Blanca Gutierrez (MX), Patricio Gil Flood (ARG-CH), Francisco González (CL), Lucy Quezada (CL), Samuel Ibarra (CL), León Pagola (CL), Victoria Wigzell (ZA), Pablo Rocu (CL-ES), Ecole du non Travail (CH), GCAS-Latinoamérica (LAT), Festival de Performance Arte y Trabajo (CL), World of Trophies (ZA), La Caleta (CL), Eriazo, art practices from residual spaces (BE-CH-CL). Colaborador: David Romero (CL) Website: https://arteydesindustrializacion.hotglue.me/  

Tomé, Chile Federica Martini (IT-CH), Bárbara Lama (CL), Daniel Cartes (CL), Sara Fuentes y Andrea Herrera (CL), Camila Barraza (CL), Gonzalo Bustos (CL), Javier Ramírez (CL), Ignacio Szmulewicz (CL), Nihan Somay (TR), Natasha de Cortillas (CL), Egor Mardones (CL), Art Workers (CH), Mesa 8 (CL), Mesa Ciudadana Patrimonio Tomé (CL), Memoria Textil Chiguayante (CL), La Aurora de Chile (CL), Museo Historia de Penco (CL), CEDOC (CL), Unidos por la Acción Intercultural (NL), Sobremesa (CL), KURS (SRB), La Fábrica (CL), MAP-UdeC (CL), Francisco Navarrete (CL), Ash Aravena (CL), Alexandros Kyriakatos (GR), Ecole du non Travail (CH), Artiste et sinon tu fais quoi? (SER). Colaborador: David Romero (CL) Website: https://arteydesindustrializacion.hotglue.me/   Credits:  photos by Oscar Concha, Mesa Ciudadana de Tome drawing by Ash Aravena