Tiziano Cruz

Born in the province of Jujuy, Argentina in 1988. Based in Buenos Aires.

Interdisciplinary artist. His work fundamentally brings together the visual and theatrical language, performance, and artistic intervention of public space.

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Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work fundamentally brings together visual and theatrical language, performance and artistic intervention in public space. Tiziano has been a grantee of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro ARG. He won the Bienal de Arte Joven 2019, the ANTI award, Finland, 2023 and the audience award from the Zurich theatre Spektakel prize 2024.
He founded the Cultural Management Platform ULMUS, which is dedicated to mediation between different cultural organizations in Argentina and neighbouring countries. He has also worked as a Content Producer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
His works have toured Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Finland and the USA.

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WAYQEYCUNA

Just as Andean women weave their quipus [textile artefacts made of ropes and knots] as memorials, the Argentinean artist Tiziano Cruz takes the path back to his childhood to reconnect with his community.

Based on archival work, the piece proposes a reflection on how racial hierarchies and structures of domination operate in a world in which neoliberalism violently devastates cultural, vital and collective traces.

Wayqeycuna is the last piece in the trilogy "Tres Maneras de Cantarle a una Montaña", in which the artist articulates, through a series of poetic gestures, his childhood memories of the interior of northern Argentina with political manifestos on the art market and class privilege.

Tiziano Cruz Soliloquio — **Soliloquy**

**Soliloquy (I woke up and hit my head against the wall)** is his latest creation that premiered as a co-production of the Buenos Aires International Festival - FIBA 2022. This is the second piece of a trilogy.
How to be a migrant in the same territory? This biography explores the collective memory of a town in northern Argentina, from a society that highlights whiteness. He reflects and questions his role as a contemporary artist, on the spaces of consecration, on the concessions before the institutions of power arrive if there is a place to arrive.
It consists of two parts: a site-specific dance (built together with a local community) followed by a performative conference (unipersonal); both combine theatre and stage performance placing the autobiographical research and regionality (as features, identity gestures of a specific place) as the germ of the creation of scenic materiality.

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Presentation of Soliloquy at PROXIMAMENTE FESTIVAL. Co presented by Kaaitheater and the KVS.
Presentation of Wayqeycuna.
Presentation of Soliloquy.
Presentation of Soliloquy.
Presentation of Wayqeycuna.
Presentation of Wayqeycuna:
- September 8th, at 9:30 PM, at Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo (Coimbra)
- September 20th, at 9:30 PM, at Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery
Presentation of Wayqeycuna. Winner of ANTI festival prize 2023.
Presentation of Wayqeycuna.
Presentation of Wayqeycuna.
Presentation of Waqeycuna and winner of the audience prize in the festival edition.
Presentation of Soliloquy and European premiere of Wayqeycuna.
https://festival-avignon.com/fr/artistes/tiziano-cruz-348196
International premiere Wayqueycuna at MITsp.
Feb 15th, 2024, at NY SKIRBALL. Conference "Tres maneras de Cantarle a una Montaña" as part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival.
On Feb 8th and 10th, 2024, Soliloquio at Festival de Teatro Iberoamericano ¡Adelante! en el Teatro Heidelberg.
Residency for working on Wayqeycuna.
In September 2023 the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10th time in Kuopio, Finland.
The nominees for the 2023 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art are: Tiziano Cruz (Argentina), Autumn Knight (United States), Jota Mombaça (Brazil) and Joshua Serafin (Philippines/Belgium).
“While each of them comes from a unique artistic and geographical background, these artists are all exceptional change-makers in Live Art. They invite us to engage socio-political and ecological realities outside of Eurocentric systems and show us what it means to dream and practice alternative futures”, the shortlisting committee, Pelin Başaran, John Tain and Elisa Itkonen, writes about the shortlist.
This year the ANTI Festival Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10th time in its history. The Shortlist LIVE! programme presents the nominees’ performances live during the ANTI Festival taking place in Kuopio. An international jury considers the nominees’ work from the past few years and announces the winner of the award at the ANTI Prize Party on Saturday 16th September 2023. In honour of the 10th anniversary of the Prize, the first artist to win the award, Cassils (Canada/United States), has been invited as the chair of the jury.
Soliloquio in SESC, Av Paulista, Sao Paulo as part of Tepi.
Soliloquio in Montreal
Soliloquy in Vancouver.
Presentations of Soliloquio.
First Spanish presentation of Soliloquio.
Oct ctober 15th - 16th, FITT Cadiz.
Residency for the creation of a new project and opening to the audience. September 29th, 2022 - La Virreina BCN.
Soliloquio at La Bâtie - Festival de Genève.
August 27th - 28th, 2022
Soliloquio at Zürcher Theater Spektakel.
August 23th - 25th, 2022.
Show nominated to the festival prize.
Soliloquio at Cena Contemporânea - Festival Internacional de Teatro de Brasília, with the community ¨Boi do Seu Teodoro¨. July 9th - 10th, 2022
MICA - Mercado de Industrias Culturales Argentinas - Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación.
Soliloquio at CCK Centro Cultural Kirchner, with the special participation of the community "Inalmama Warmis Sikuris".
May 21st, 2022
Soliloquio at Centro de Arte - UNLP.
Con la participación especial de la Comunidad de "Caporales cuerpo de danzas centralistas".
May 20th, 2022
Arte y Soberanía: de los cuerpos, de los pueblos, de la alimentación, del ambiente (Intervenir el presente para inventar una poética del mañana).
Facultad de trabajo social - UNLP.
May 17th, 2022
Soliloquio premiered at FIBA 2022 - Av Corrientes and CCRojas.