Lucila Piffer
Guest Author
Lucila Piffer (born 1988 in Buenos Aires) is a theater director and a performing arts producer. She works along with creators of different backgrounds, such as theater, dance, performance, literature and music. She has a special interest in the merging of artistic and accademic disciplines, and ceative uses of lo-fi technology.
Since 2007 she has collaborated with both local and international artists; among them, Guillermo Heras (ES), Constanza Macras (DE), Silvina Grinberg (AR), Guillermina Etkin (AR), Luis Cano (AR) and Agustina Gatto (AR). Between 2008 and 2011 she directed CARSON, a company of young actors, musicians, designers and visual artists under 30. She also worked in public and alternative theaters as artistic adviser for several projects. She currently collaborates with the writer and theater director Lola Arias, the performer, coreographer and dancer Laura Kalauz and the dramaturgist and performer Sofía Medici. She studies Philosophy at the Buenos Aires University.
In 2016, she is an awardee of the Theaterformen Festival Grant, reporting for Textures from the festival and the research atelier "Our Common Futures".
THIS AUTHOR WROTE
June 13, 2016
“Why, how and in which way does the production of images participate in the destruction of human beings?”
In her text Festival Grant Awardee Lucila Piffer from Argentinia shares with us in what way that line from Georges Didi-Huberman was her personal connecting theme for the questions raised at the research atelier as well as in the various shows presented during the first weekend at Festival Theaterformen.