Las Errantes – Poetic Practices of Errantry.
Las Errantes is a transdisciplinary collective of artists engaging with poeticpoliticalforms of memory, care, migration, and ecological entanglements. Their practice is porous, site-specific, and process-oriented and intertwined with landscapes,archives, and atmospheres.
Las Errantes was founded in 2024 during the final edition of the Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon. The performance festival, founded by Maricruz Peñaloza, in public space that shaped Zurich’s urban landscape for over 15 years.
The collective emerged from the curatorial and artistic collaboration of Kerstin Wittenberg, Elsbeth Carolin Iten, and Maricruz Peñaloza, who envisioned a platform for artistic research, performance, and relational practices.
Inspired by concepts such as relation and errantry (.douard Glissant) as well as care practices, Las Errantes approaches political and ecological questions with sensuous precision, radical tenderness, and poetic density. Their works often arise in situ — in resonance with places, memories, rock formations, and geopolitical movements. Migration is understood not only as a human fate but also as a geological, atmospheric, and more-than-human movement.
Las Errantes initiates performances, research processes, workshops, and transcultural collaborations that weave together the visible and the hidden, the bodily and the remembered, the political and the poetic.
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