What links Italian textiles magnate Luciano Benetton to the small Mapuche community of the Curiñanco-Nahuelquir?
How about Argentina’s current president Mauricio Macri and Sylvester Stallone?
And NBA player Emanuel Ginobili to Butch Cassidy?
You can find the answers to all these questions here, thousands of miles from the USA or Europe.
Here, south of South, at the southernmost limits of America, in the least populated region of Argentina.
Here, between vast crystalline lakes and soaring snowcapped peaks. Between the Andes and the Atlantic.
In Puelmapu, the ancestral lands of the Mapuche people.
AZCONA & TOLOZA
Splitting their time between Barcelona, Pamplona and the Atacama Desert, Azkona&Toloza are a pair of artists devoted to the creation of live arts projects. Established as a company in 2015, they are Navarran choreographer Laida Azkona and Atacaman videoartist Txalo Toloza-Fernández. They have focused their work on the use of contemporary artistic languages as a useful tool for documentary research.
Admirers of the performance possibilities of My First Sony, in addition to developing their projects either together or on their own Azkona & Toloza have worked, among others, alongside perfomer Sònia Gómez, performance director Roger Bernat and Mexican documentary theatre company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol.
They are currently constructing three-part documentary Pacífico on the links between new forms of capitalism, atrocities committed against the land and people of Latin America, and the development of contemporary culture.