Results of the CAUTÍN Open Call: Nocturnal Walkthroughs and Workshops
The proposals and artists selected in the Open Call for the public program of CAUTÍN, the exhibition by Seba Calfuqueo at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, are:
Memories of Water, by Juan Pablo Pacheco and Pablo Zamorano Azócar
Juan Pablo Pacheco (Colombia) and Pablo Zamorano Azócar (Chile) are artists and researchers whose transdisciplinary practice engages with the epistemologies of nature, ancestral knowledge, and poetic forms of knowing. Memories of Water is a participatory ritual experience that invites participants to explore the connections between body, water, memory, and territory through an immersive sound walk and a collective vocal performance.
This Map Is Not My Territory, by Elisa Garrido Moreno
Elisa Garrido Moreno holds a PhD in Art History and is a lecturer and researcher at the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her work explores the intersections between art and science, focusing on how artistic practices reveal and challenge biases in scientific knowledge. In the walkthrough This Map Is Not My Territory, she examines nineteenth-century travel accounts through historical documents that bring their silences and omissions to light.
Echoes of the River, by huaicoral
huaicoral is a musical collective formed by aqnu and Emily Sun that explores fluid sonic practices, traversing territories and genres in search of radical intimacies. In Echoes of the River, a participatory workshop combining sound-making and collective reflection, the collective invites participants to explore the Cautín’s ecological and political landscape through listening, storytelling, instrument-making, and musical improvisation. The workshop considers the different worldviews that shape relationships with the river and the ways they sustain and defend it against extractive projects.
Not the Water That Flows Away, but the Water That Returns, by Luis Lecea Romera
Luis Lecea Romera is an artist, composer, and researcher whose practice explores the affective potential of vibration and resonance through field recordings and speculative instruments. In Not the Water That Flows Away, but the Water That Returns, he creates an expanded sensory experience that connects the Cautín River with Madrid's network of underground water infrastructure. Using field recordings and bone-conduction transducers, the installation invites a tactile mode of listening that traces water’s passage from a relational body to a resource subject to extraction and appropriation.
The jury for the CAUTÍN Open Call: Nocturnal Walkthroughs and Workshops was made up of the following professionals:
Mariairis Flores Leiva (Marchigüe, 1990) is a curator at Espacio218 and a PhD candidate in Arts and Humanities at the Universidad de Santiago, Chile. She is currently part of the project Documentos críticos del arte chileno at the ICAA at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. As a researcher, she has contributed to initiatives including www.carlosleppe.cl, the book and video Arte y política 2005-2015 (fragmentos), and the retrospective Lotty Rosenfeld: entrecruces de la memoria, curated by Nelly Richard (2023–2024). She is the author of the book Bajo el signo mujer. Exposiciones de artistas chilenas. 1973–1991 (Metales Pesados, 2024) and co-editor, together with Varinia Brodsky, the volume Mujeres en las artes visuales en Chile 2010-2020 (MINCAP, 2021).
Katya García-Antón, of Anglo-Spanish origin, is a curator, director and institutional strategist based in Oslo. She has held positions at institutions such as The Courtauld Institute of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ICA London and IKON Birmingham, and has directed CAC Genève, OCA Norway and the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø/Bodø/Longyearbyen. Among her curatorial highlights are the Spanish Pavilion (2011) and the Nordic Pavilion (2015) at the Venice Biennale, as well as the transformation of the latter into the Sámi Pavilion (2022). She is the author and co-editor of publications including The Word for World is Water (2026), Raven Chacon. A Worm's Eye View from a Bird's Beak (2024) and Art and Solidarity Reader (2021). Her upcoming projects include exhibitions at the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes and Park Abbey in Leuven (2026), and an artistic advisory role for the Culturescapes Festival in Basel (2027).
Marina Avia Estrada is Head of Exhibitions and Public Programs at TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. She is an art historian and curator and holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial studies from Columbia University (Fullbright Scholar) and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has previously worked at institutions such as IPCNY (International Print Center New York), the Wallach Art Gallery, Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, and AECID (the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation). She recently co-curated for TBA21 the exhibition Moby Dick—The Whale. The Story of a Myth from Antiquity to Contemporary Art (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2025) and is the curator of the exhibition CAUTÍN by Seba Calfuqueo (Museo Nacional ThyssenBornemisza, Madrid, 2026).
