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ANDRÉS VALENZUELA ARELLANO

Dedicated to the digital preservation of Latin American sex-dissident artistic memories

Multidisciplinary marika artist ANDRÉS VALENZUELA ARELLANO is the creator of the web archive RegistroContracultural.com, a platform dedicated to the digital preservation of Latin American sex-dissident artistic memories. In turbulent and tremulous times, he initiated a journey toward visibility, existence, and visual rights, both individually and collectively. Devoted to audiovisual production as an extension of his artistic and activist work, his approach as a filmmaker combines proximity and complicity with LGBTQI+ communities and pro-sex activism, collaborating with individuals in Chile and Argentina to shape narratives that question, expand, and celebrate our experiences. He draws on oblique and disobedient memory, weaving critical threads for expanded reflections on testimonies, religion, politics, and affections, both in biographies and autobiographies. He inscribes these desires, convulsions, and contemplations through cinema, photography, performance, sound, writing, and installations, aiming to bring the "otherness" into a dialogue that is both identifying and dissenting.