PROJECTS
Arde
Arde is a women-led collective dedicated to conceptualizing and creating archives. Since 2017, we have been developing a hybrid digital platform that serves both as an archive and a publishing space, working from different territories including Valdivia, Santiago, and Berlin.
An archive safeguards documents related to creative processes, research, and cultural practices. In addition, it provides a space for those who wish to share the backstage and journey of their projects, as well as their approaches to creating and generating knowledge. We offer open access to digitized documents within a free and public domain framework for research, education, and recreational purposes.
As a publishing space, we produce specialized content such as audiovisual clips, graphic materials, interviews, and texts that invite reflection on the arts, archives, and communities.
We foster collaborations with artists, researchers, activists, and organizations to create networks among those working with archives and memory from diverse contexts and geographies. We share tools, strategies, and archival methodologies so that more people and communities can initiate or strengthen their own archival projects.
Examples of Our Work:
–Traces of Creation: Archiving the Creative Processes of Contemporary Chilean Theater Companies
–Traces of Exile: Tracing the Theatrical Heritage of Chilean Performing Artists in Costa Rica
–Traces of Women: An Archive Collection of Women in the Arts in Chile
–Theaters and Youth in Dictatorship
-Los Archivos Laten (Archives pulsating): Development of Digital Content on Archival Studies
Services
Documentary Description of the Audiovisual Archive of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
Santiago de Chile (2023-2026). Development of the museum’s audiovisual archive using documentary description with metadata in accordance with international digital management standards. The work focuses on ensuring the preservation and accessibility of the heritage safeguarded by the institution.
Documentary Management for the Myriam Espinoza Vergara Project at the University of Valparaíso
Valparaíso-Chile (2023). Documentary management, inventory, digitization, and description of documents for the project Myriam Espinoza Vergara: 50 Years Dedicated to Social Theater in Valparaíso, led by researcher Maritza Farías at the University of Valparaíso.
Archival Consulting for Women in Exile
Berlin, Germany (2023). Consultancy during the creation of this organization’s archive. The organization was born in Germany in 2002 as the result of an initiative by refugee women. We trained the team through a series of workshops and produced specialized material. Development of the workshop “Women in Exile: between resistances and affects” in the framework of the lecture series “Antirrassistische Kämpfe versammeln, archivieren und aktivieren” [Gathering, archiving, and activating anti-racist struggles] held at the Hau Hebbel am Ufer cultural center in Berlin.
Systematization and Drafting the Cultural Policy for the Performing Arts MINCAP and NGO Poloc
Santiago, Chile (2024). Collection of documentation and drafting of the background information for the Performing Arts Cultural Policy 2025-2030 by the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Heritage of Chile (MINCAP). Work led by Poloc NGO.
Development of the Course Archives and Latin American Artistic Practices for University of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022-2023). Development and teaching of the course “Archivo y prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas” [Archive and Latin American artistic practices] for the Specialization Program in Artistic Practices and Politics in Latin America, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Online format.
Cabinet of Curiosities exhibition about stage designer Sergio Zapata at GAM
Archives and Mediation for Artists and Cultural Collectives
–La Pieza Oscura, Santiago, Chile (2025). Design and management of the theater company’s digital collection to commemorate its 33 years of work.
–Circo Virtual, Santiago, Chile (2025). Consulting on the management of the company’s general archive inventory, providing guidance for the first stage of the archival plan, and writing a critical article about the process.
–Tryo Teatro Banda, Santiago, Chile (2024). Management of the digital collection “Tragicomedia del Ande” for the project “Archivo Tryo Teatro Banda 20 años” [Archive: 20 years of Tyro Teatro Banda]. Archival consulting, support in document description, and creation of the public domain of the digital collection for this renowned Chilean theatre company.
–Teatro Niño Proletario, Santiago, Chile (2022-2024). Development of the workshop El carácter generativo de las memorias artísticas: acción y reflexión a partir de archivos de creadores [The productive nature of artistic memories: action and reflection on creators’ archives] taught at the virtual school of the theater company Teatro Niño Proletario (2022-2024).
–Scenic piece El Ensayo, Santiago, Chile (2023). Creation of archival materials on the political theater of the 1960s–70s (Teatro del Pueblo, Teatro Nuevo Popular and Isidora Aguirre´s TEPA). They were used for the staging of El Ensayo, directed by Cristian Flores Rebolledo, performed in January 2023 in Espacio Checoslovaquia, Santiago, Chile.
–Teatro Periplos, Valdivia, Los Ríos Region, Chile (2022). Development of teacher guides and mediation booklets for the theater company Teatro Periplos. Materials developed in collaboration with the Museo y Memoria de Neltume Cultural Center and the Red Cultura program. Materials presented to the school communities of the Los Ríos Region (2022).
WHAT WE DO:
Workshops and seminars / Archive management / Digital preservation / Educational materials / Compilation and dissemination of community memory projects / Digitization of cultural heritage / Publications / Research and Archival Survey / Support for archival projects / Exhibitions/ Specialized content and materials/ Meetings, conferences, and other public activities.
