UNA MINGA ARRASTRA 700 TEJUELAS DE UNA CASA SOBRE EL ESCENARIO
“Minga de una casa en ruinas” es un montaje que instala un hogar chilote en escena trasladando cientos de tejuelas para profundizar en el sentido comunidad.
La obra escrita, dirigida y actuada por Ébana Garín, estará en cartelera GAM hasta el 2 de abril.
“Minga de una Casa en Ruinas” es un montaje escénico creado íntegramente por Ébana Garín y Luis Guenel, que invita al público a un viaje en torno al sentido de habitar y de construir comunidad en un presente que parece preferir las casas desechables y hogares efímeros.
La obra propone un juego entre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de los restos de una casa y se inspira en la tradición chilota, donde las viviendas son arrastradas comunitariamente por tierra o por mar.
En escena una mujer traslada las ruinas de lo que fue una casa, ocupando sus tejuelas como medio para contar historias en torno al sentido hogar para los seres humanos: un hombre destruye su propia casa con un tractor, una comunidad prefiere dejar morir sus casas antes que renovarlas, una pareja decepcionada del amor deja caer un árbol sobre una casa como última esperanza de entenderse, una familia debe dejar atrás su hogar y exiliarse en otro país por razones políticas.
“Después de pasar varios meses encerradas en nuestras casas, hay preguntas que se hicieron más fuerte ¿cuántos hogares tenemos que destruir para entender por fin quiénes somos?, ¿qué memorias alberga nuestra casa?, ¿qué cargamos con nosotras cuando dejamos un hogar?”, explicó su creadora, Ébana Garín.
La obra tuvo un proceso de investigación en 2021 y 2022, donde se buscó ahondar en torno al concepto de Minga. Para esto, se realizaron talleres con niñas, adolescentes y adultos mayores en Castro. Además, se realizó una acción comunitaria en terreno en Dalcahue, ejecutando la minga para el desarme de una casa en ruinas. Esas materialidades se utilizaron en una residencia en NAVE donde surgió esta puesta en escena contemporánea que permitió hacer dialogar tradiciones chilotas con mecanismos escénicos contemporáneos.
“Estamos felices de que esta obra se presente en GAM, que es un centro cultural neurálgico de la ciudad. Y también estamos muy interesados de que pueda estar en regiones distintas a la Metropolitana y llegar a lugares donde el teatro no llega. Esta obra la estrenamos en junio de 2022 en Países Bajos, porque estábamos estudiando allí, y pese a lo particular y el enfoque territorial del proyecto, la recepción del público en todos los escenarios de Europa fue excelente. Estamos muy expectantes de qué pasará en Chile”, comentó Luis Guenel, co-director del espectáculo.
23 Mar al 2 Abr. Ju a Sá – 20.30 h. Do – 19.30 h. $6.000 Gral., $4.500 Personas mayores, $3.500 Estudiantes
Dirección e investigación: Ébana Garín y Luis Guenel | Dramaturgia y actuación: Ébana Garín | Producción: Colectivo Cuerpo Sur | Diseño integral: Ricardo Romero | Composición y diseño sonoro: Damián Noguera | Asistente de diseño: Montserrat Fonseca, Nicolás Zapata | Comunicaciones y representante internacional: Loreto Araya | Coproduce: Arcadia, Leeuwarden – Países Bajos | Colaboran: CECREA – Castro, Centro NAVE, Beursschouwburg, Bruselas.
DAS Theatre – Master PresentationsÉbana Garín Coronel – Minga de una casa en ruinasMinga de una casa en ruinas (Minga of a ruined house) is a performance created from the remains of a house on the island of Chiloé, at the beginning of Chilean Patagonia. The Minga is a Chiloe’s tradition in which houses are communally dragged across a territory, sometimes even across the sea. The research questions the meaning of house and home for human beings. A woman travels on a plane that takes her away from her original home forever. A man in the south of Chile destroys his house with a tractor. People from villages prefer to let their houses die rather than renovate them for a gentrified world. A movie character sets fire to his house to save himself from war. A couple disappointed in love lets a tree fall on a house as a last hope towards understanding each other. How many houses do we need to destroy to finally understand who we are? Can we build another future with these ruins? Minga de una casa en ruinas (Minga of a ruined house) plays with the past, present and future of the remains of a house, to propose an intense journey through the meaning of inhabitancy and community in a present that seems to prefer disposable houses and ephemeral homes. Ébana Garín Coronel is a Chilean actress, theatre director and filmmaker, currently living and working in Amsterdam. She has developed a line of performative research focused on the “indiscipline” of bodies on stage: both of performers and spectators. The question central to her work is how to blur the boundaries and limits that delimit disciplines, communities, geographies and also demarcate bodies. In parallel, she has worked in theatre and circus companies as an actress, trapeze artist and dancer, and as an audio-visual producer in different television and film projects. Her work has been exhibited both in Chile and Europe. Ébana Garín currently co-directs the collective Cuerpo Sur, with which she is currently developing the projects Mutilados en democracia and Bailar la ruina.DAS Theatre – Master PresentationsÉbana Garín Coronel – Minga de una casa en ruinasMinga de una casa en ruinas (Minga of a ruined house) is a performance created from the remains of a house on the island of Chiloé, at the beginning of Chilean Patagonia. The Minga is a Chiloe’s tradition in which houses are communally dragged across a territory, sometimes even across the sea. The research questions the meaning of house and home for human beings. A woman travels on a plane that takes her away from her original home forever. A man in the south of Chile destroys his house with a tractor. People from villages prefer to let their houses die rather than renovate them for a gentrified world. A movie character sets fire to his house to save himself from war. A couple disappointed in love lets a tree fall on a house as a last hope towards understanding each other. How many houses do we need to destroy to finally understand who we are? Can we build another future with these ruins? Minga de una casa en ruinas (Minga of a ruined house) plays with the past, present and future of the remains of a house, to propose an intense journey through the meaning of inhabitancy and community in a present that seems to prefer disposable houses and ephemeral homes. Ébana Garín Coronel is a Chilean actress, theatre director and filmmaker, currently living and working in Amsterdam. She has developed a line of performative research focused on the “indiscipline” of bodies on stage: both of performers and spectators. The question central to her work is how to blur the boundaries and limits that delimit disciplines, communities, geographies and also demarcate bodies. In parallel, she has worked in theatre and circus companies as an actress, trapeze artist and dancer, and as an audio-visual producer in different television and film projects. Her work has been exhibited both in Chile and Europe. Ébana Garín currently co-directs the collective Cuerpo Sur, with which she is currently developing the projects Mutilados en democracia and Bailar la ruina.
