Open Call: Virtual Workspaces by Lola Arias

Febryary 15, 19 & MARCH 1, 5 2021 || Application Deadline: Friday 5th February 2021

“My Documents” has a minimal format: artists with their documents. Το “My Documents” παίρνει μια μινιμαλιστική μορφή: πρόκειται για καλλιτέχνες και τα αρχεία τους. A way of bringing to light the kind of research that often gets lost in a nameless folder in a computer.

Task for the Participants: For the workshop look for a personal archive (from photos to letters to videos to diaries, or any kind of obsession of collection that you never worked with before).

Start organizing the archive and think about a way to present the archive in a short lecture performance in front of the screen.

Lola Arias (Argentina, 1976) is a writer, theatre and film director. She is a multifaceted artist whose work brings together people from different backgrounds (war veterans, former communists, migrant children, etc.) in theater, film, literature, music, and visual art projects.

Coordinators:

for Onassis Stegi: Christina Liata

for STUDIO teatrgaleria: Anna Lewanowicz (Initiator and Head of the Project)

Read more about Lola Arias

Lola Arias (Argentina, 1976) studied Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Dramaturgy at the Escuela de Artes Dramáticas (Buenos Aires), the Royal Court Theatre (London) and Casa de América (Madrid). In 2014 she completed the Film Laboratory Program at the Universidad Di Tella (Buenos Aires), one of the most prestigious cinema program in Argentina.

Between 2001 and 2007 she wrote and directed six fictional pieces “The Squalid Family,” “Studies of Loving Memory,” “Poses for Sleeping” and the trilogy “Love is a Sniper.” “Revolver Dream,” and “Striptease”.

Since 2007 she has worked in the field of documentary theatre, creating over twelve plays in collaboration with people who have lived through different events or historical experiences. People who have, one way or another, survived.

Lola began her film career with the video installation “Veterans” (Battersea Art Centre, London, 2014)

Her first feature film “Theatre of War” (2018) was selected for the 68th Forum of the Berlinale Film Festival and received several prizes including the CICAE Art Cinema Award, the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Arias also won the Best Director Award at the 20th BAFICI Festival in Buenos Aires and the film received the Movistar+ Prize for Best Documentary Film at Documenta Madrid and the Silver Condor Award for Best Adapted Script.

In the visual arts and curating field, she developed “My Documents” (Buenos Aires, 2012–2017; Milan, 2018; Lisboa, 2020), a lecture-performance cycle where artists from different backgrounds present personal research, a radical experience, a story that secretly obsessed them. She also conceived the durational performance Audition for a Demonstration (Berlin, 2014; Athens, 2015; Prague, 2015; Buenos Aires, 2017; Berlin, 2019); she created the exhibitions “Stunt Double” (Buenos Aires, 2016), in which four different installations rebuilt the last 40 years of Argentinian social and political history through documents, reenactments, interviews, and popular songs; and “Ways of Walking with a Book in Your Hand (Buenos Aires, 2017), a site-specific project for readers in libraries and public spaces.

In collaboration with Ulises Conti she released the albums “Love is a Sniper” (2007) and “Those Who Do not Sleep (2011), and with Stefan Kaegi she developed the projects “Chácara Paraíso” (2007), “Airport Kids” (2008) and “Ciudades Paralelas” (2010), a festival of urban interventions in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich, and other cities.

She has published poetry, fiction and plays: “Love is a Sniper” (2007, Entropía), “The Postnuclear Ones” (2011, Emecé), “My Life After and other plays” (2016, Penguin Random House), and a bilingual edition of her play “Minefield” (2017, Oberon Books). In 2019, Performance Research Studies published “Re-enacting Life”, a book that gathers articles, screenplays and documents from her whole career.

Lola Arias has received very prestigious prizes for her works, including the Premio Konex 2014 and the Preis der Autoren 2018, and her work has been performed at festivals including: Lift Festival, London; Under the Radar, New York; Festival d’Avignon; Theater Spektakel, Zurich; Wiener Festwochen; Festival Theaterformen, Brunswick/Hanover; Spielart Festival, Munich; and Berlinale; as well as at venues including Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Royal Court Theatre, London.