Brief bio
Diego Echegoyen is an Argentine performance maker based in Brussels who works, researches and activates in projects merging theatre, expanded choreography, field recording, site-specific and street performance. His artistic practice reshapes in relation to these fields of experimentation according the type of project.
Echegoyen has shown his work in Argentina, Chile, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark.
He holds a Post-Master in artistic research from the Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies program (a.pass, Brussels), and a BFA in Urban Space and Performative Practices from the Institute Superieur des Arts et des Choregraphies (ISAC) at the Academie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
His performative work revolves around how we perceive reality and whether it is possible to modify what we perceive by modifying its perceptual context. Countless topics unfold from there, connecting historical, personal and collective events.
He is interested in a speculative approach to the crisis of political representation in contemporary Western democracies in relation to the representation crisis in the drift from conventional forms of theatre to post-dramatic theatre, contemporary theatre, visual arts, performance and sound art.
These interests are present in his last individual and collective works, such as What Shines Through Two Different Things; To Be Someone Implies to Be Somewhere; All roads lead to Molenbeek; Abogados Manteros (Lawyers Manteros); ¿Qué pretende Usted de mi? (What do you want from me?); Escena Politica Transversal Congress; Acciones Iceberg (Iceberg Actions); Dirección de Ecosistemas Culturales (Governmental Direction of Cultural Ecosystems); Deseos CTBA 2016 (Wishes 2016 for the Buenos Aires Theatrical Complex); Informe SM (SM Report).
Through his works, he challenges the regulations to make use of public space and how we perceive and understand it by dislocation perception and sense of reality.
For his new piece, he follows the trace of his last work by exploring crossroads between sound-art, expanded choreography, performance, and visual arts to rise questions about collectiveness and participation.
He is co-founder of the Argentine artist-activist collective Escena Política, with whom he has worked since 2013 at the crossroads of performing arts and activism.
In 2010, he co-founded the Argentine EL CUARTO Theatre Company, who with he has worked as an actor, dancer, performer and actors’ coach ever since.
CV
Education
Theatre & Performance
2019-2020
Academie Royal des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
ISAC (Institut Supérieur des Arts et Chorégraphie)
BFA in Urban Space and Performative Practices.
2018-2020
Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten
(Brussels)
a.pass (Advance Performance and Scenography Studies)
Post-graduate program on artistic research
2024-2020
2021
What shines through two different things (open-call winner at Motel Mozaique Festival, Rotterdam, NL), April 2022.
What shines through two different things (Proximamente festival, KVS, Brussels) November 2021.
What shines through two different things (teaser Brussels, Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts) 2020.
What shines through two different things (teaser Copenhagen, Metropolis mapping the city residency - København International teater) 2020
Theater of Justice (within “Race and Fiction, encounters of thoughts and actions”, online event, PLANTA -AR- and Pro-Helvetia -CH-) Co-curator and maker, 2021.
Folded distance (online performance, podcast commissioned by 12/24 and Magma centro de artes, on Spotify -Spanish-) May 2021.
Eyelidless an intimate live performance (online concert by Yamila), Dramaturge and performative design, February-March 2021.
Following the waterfront (by residency collective in Walking the city festival, KIT & Metropolis, Copenhagen) 2020.
To be someone implies to be somewhere (Performative installation - director and performer) within the frame of “Precious indirection*” (apass end-communication) at NeedCompany, Brussels, January 2020
Iras Fajro Concert performed by Yamila (Artistic director and staging) Rayo Festival, Naves Matadero, Madrid; October 2019.
Studio Cité (Performer & technical coordinator) on tour
Studio Cité teaser (Performer & Technical coordinator) Installation created and directed by Benjamin Vandewalle, within Kaai Studio’s program, September 2019.
Peri-masks (Performer, facilitator and tech-support) Installation created and directed by Benjamin Vandewalle, within ArtUnited at Pukkelpop festival 2019.
All roads lead to Molenbeek (performative installation and open research) (Director and performer) within Performatik 2019 program, Kanal Pompidou, March 2019.
Una tierra salvaje (“A wild land”) (Actor/Performer) by ELCUARTO Company, directed by Nahuel Cano and Ezequiel Menalled, premiering in the Buenos Aires International Festival XI edition, october 2017.
La Señorita Julia (“Fröken Julie”) by August Strindberg, directed by Cristina Banegas, Cooperative Cultural Center, 2016 and 2017, Supported by Iberescena.
PASOLINI (Actor) by Matías Feldman, San Martin Cultural Center, 2016 and 2017.
¿Qué pretende usted de mí? (“What do you want from me?”) (Lecture Performance) (Performer/Author/Director), in the “Drama es Acción” cicle, Matienzo Cultural Club, July 2016.
Abogados Manteros, street performance (Director and author) this action was part of the program of the Escena Política Transversal Congress, October 2016.
Furia (“Fury”) (Perferomer) by ELCUARTO Company, directed by Nahuel Cano, performance cicle “La Broma Infinita” (about “Infinite Jest”, by David Foster Wallace), La Casona Iluminada, July 2016.
Deseos CTBA 2016 (“Wishes 2016 for Buenos Aires Theatrical Complex”) street performance by Escena Politica Collective; December 2015.
La vida breve (“The brief life”) (Actor) by ELCUARTO Company, directed by Nahuel Cano, 10th edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival (fiba) September 2015. This play was invited to perform in ARCOmadrid 2017 (Spain)
Informe SM (“SM Report”) by Escena Politica Collective; San Martin Cultural Center, October 2015.
Los rapsodas van a Marte (“Rhapsodes going to Mars”) (Actor/Performer) by Estudio|ELCUARTO Company, directed by Nahuel Cano, Argentine Poetry cycle in Cervantes National Theatre, August 2015.
Revolving door (Performer) by Allora y Calzadilla, Experiencia infinita (Infinite experience), MALBA, 2015.
Obras contadas (“Recounting the Work”) (Performer) by Judi Werthein, muestra Experiencia Infinita (Infinite experience) in MALBA, 2015.
Historia (“History”) (Actor) by Witold Gombrowicz, directed by Adrían Blanco, Hasta Trilce theatre, 2013 y 2014. This play has been part of the Gombrowicz Festival 2014 in Radom. It have been played as well in Teatr Dramatyczny of Warsaw, Poland (supported by Poland Embassy, National Institute of Theatre and National Grant of Arts).
Todos mis miedos (“All my fears”) (Actor) directed by Nahuel Cano, project winner of the Biennial of Art of Buenos Aires (November ’13), Abasto Social Club and Beckett Theatres, 2013, 2014 y 2015. It has been part of the Rafaela’s Theatre Festival (Santa Fe Province, July 2014), the SANTIAGO A MIL Festival (Santiago de Chile, January 2015). It has been played in C.C.Parque España (Rosario, Santa Fe Province, April 2015).
2020
2019
2017
2016
2015
2015-2013