VAMPYR
August 2024
Matucana 100 Cultural Center
Santiago, Chile
“Vampyr” is a mockumentary about stubborn shapeshifting creatures that refuse to obey the mandate of the nature/culture divide. They are half dead, half animal, half alive, half earth and half human. These indeterminate beings wander the wind turbine parks that are erected with no regulation in Chile, sometimes as disoriented bats, sometimes as exhausted night-shift workers. This is a piece about exhaustion and energy, work and rest. A work of delirious black humor, about the relationship with the non-human animals that inhabit our territories and how we relate to their cultures when thinking about our energetic projections for the future.
The work establishes a critical and ironic dialogue between the myth of the European vampire and the reality of the Chilean hematophagous bat, a species that dies in large numbers as a result of wind turbines. Thus, posing a critical perspective on green neo-colonialism: the perpetuation of practices of extraction and appropriation of colonial logic, which persist under the veil of green energy production (greenwashing).
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Credits
Director and Playwright
Manuela Infante
Production
Carmina Infante Güell
Cast
Marcela Salinas y David Gaete
Design
Rocio Hernández
Director´s Assistant and Technical Manager
Pablo Mois
Training & Choreography
Dian C. Guevara
Manuela Infante
Production
Carmina Infante Güell
Cast
Marcela Salinas y David Gaete
Design
Rocio Hernández
Director´s Assistant and Technical Manager
Pablo Mois
Training & Choreography
Dian C. Guevara
Sound design
Manuela Infante
Sound Technician
Víctor Muñoz
Research & Dramaturg
Camila Valladares
Wardrobe
Elizabeth Pérez
Co-production: Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Espacio Checoeslovaquia, Centro Cultural de España (Chile), NAVE, Kundura Sahne,
Supported by: Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Oxiluz Iluminaciones, Cultura Violeta.
Manuela Infante
Sound Technician
Víctor Muñoz
Research & Dramaturg
Camila Valladares
Wardrobe
Elizabeth Pérez
Co-production: Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Espacio Checoeslovaquia, Centro Cultural de España (Chile), NAVE, Kundura Sahne,
Supported by: Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano, Oxiluz Iluminaciones, Cultura Violeta.
This show was created thanks to the generous contribution of:
Tere Infante, María Teresa Petric, Constanza y Eduardo Güell, Luisa Cienfuegos, Nicolás Espinoza, Andrés Poirot, Rodrigo Pérez, Cristina Escobar, Francisca Imboden, Santiago Infante, Marialy Rivas, Carolina Courbis, María Ignacia Güell, Sebastián Lelio, Claudia Celedón, Lucia Duran, Juan Carlos Saez, Ricardo Schmidlin, Dalia Berezin, Pablo Brugnoli, Alejandra Costamagna, Eduardo Walker, Paula Echeñique, María Ignacia Rillón, Natalia Roa, Pamela López, Leo Quinteros, Cristina Güell, Olga Garay-English, Gabriel Urzúa, Caroline Ward, Gabriel Cañas, Mauricio Barría, Patty Escobar, Angélica Fanjul, Vicky Ancelovici, Elisa Zulueta, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Coté Durán, Paloma Salas, Freddy Araya, Francisca Infante, Andrea Moro y Donante Anónimo
Tere Infante, María Teresa Petric, Constanza y Eduardo Güell, Luisa Cienfuegos, Nicolás Espinoza, Andrés Poirot, Rodrigo Pérez, Cristina Escobar, Francisca Imboden, Santiago Infante, Marialy Rivas, Carolina Courbis, María Ignacia Güell, Sebastián Lelio, Claudia Celedón, Lucia Duran, Juan Carlos Saez, Ricardo Schmidlin, Dalia Berezin, Pablo Brugnoli, Alejandra Costamagna, Eduardo Walker, Paula Echeñique, María Ignacia Rillón, Natalia Roa, Pamela López, Leo Quinteros, Cristina Güell, Olga Garay-English, Gabriel Urzúa, Caroline Ward, Gabriel Cañas, Mauricio Barría, Patty Escobar, Angélica Fanjul, Vicky Ancelovici, Elisa Zulueta, Gonzalo Rodriguez, Coté Durán, Paloma Salas, Freddy Araya, Francisca Infante, Andrea Moro y Donante Anónimo
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