Txalo Toloza-Fernández
Artist, Performance, Teaching, Videoarte
Chile
Txalo Toloza-Fernández trained as a video artist in Santiago de Chile and as a performer and scenic creator in Barcelona, where he lives and works since 1997. In 2005 he created the MiPrimerDrop audiovisual studio specialized in videographic work dedicated to the living arts and performance. Since 2015 he has been a member of the live arts company Azkona & Toloza together with the Basque choreographer Laida Azkona Goñi
Performer, videographer, stage director, teacher and activist is a regular contributor to the perfomer Sònia Gómez. Since 2007 he has been part of the company FFF of stage director Roger Bernat.
Among other festivals, his works and collaborations have been presented at ARCO in Madrid, Tokyo Festival Tokyo, Grec Festival, Loop, International Poetry, Influx, LP, Poblenou Scene and Sónar de Barcelona, Il Choreografo Eletronico de Napoles, Wiener Festwochen de Vienna, KunstenFestivalDesarts from Brussels, Transversales from Mexico, Santiago a thousand, Zicosur and Domestic Scene from Chile, FIAC from Salvador de Bahia, Crossing Festival from Pekin, Dança in focus of Rio de Janeiro, TNT from Terrassa, Projector from Madrid, Transversales from Mexico, Panorama of Olot, Havana Art Biennial, Buenos Aires Videodance Festival, Xontakt Festival of Split, Frame Festival of Lisbon, Map of Pontós, Intacto of Vitoria, MUSAC of León, SISMO and Arts Games of Madrid and Inmediaciones from Pamplona.
“Restes d’ scene ”at Antic Teatre de Barcelona is his last solo exhibition and“ INFLUX VideoCapsa ”at Center d’Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona his last collective exhibition.
«Tierras del Sud» on the relationship between the new forms of colonialism present in South America, the barbarism over the territory and its inhabitants and the development of contemporary culture is his last released stage piece.
“Pacífico # 11 – Montaña Rusa” is his last released video piece
«The visible. New visual dramaturgies ”with Laida Azkona is her last active workshop.
