Colectivo LASTESIS is an artistic,
interdisciplinary and feminist collective from Valparaíso, Chile,
featuring Daffne Valdés Vargas, Paula Cometa Stange and Sibila Sotomayor
Van Rysseghem. The collective is dedicated to spreading feminist theses
and demands through performance and video performance, combining
performing, sound, graphic and textile arts with history, philosophy and
social sciences. Their performances include: Patriarchy and Capital is a Criminal Alliance (2018); the rapist is you (2020); RESISTANCE or the vindication of a collective right (2021), The city of the future alongside Delight Lab (2022), Songs for cooking (2023) and the street intervention a rapist in your path (2019), replicated in more than 50 countries. In addition to their stage work, they have published several books, including Polifonías Feministas (Random House, 2022), Antología Feminista (Debate, 2021); Quemar el miedo (Planeta, 2021) translated into German (S. Fisher, 2021), Italian (Capovolte, 2022) and English (Verso, 2023) and About wild Capitalism & its patriarchal Performance in our lives (at Why Theatre? Golden Book, NTGent, 2020), among others.
In addition, they have shared their artistic and activist
work through a hundred instances of conversation and multiple
collaborative workshops; they have participated in various festivals,
museums, universities, fairs, conventions and feminist meetings in
Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, the United States, Sweden, Germany,
Portugal, Switzerland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and the
United Kingdom in on-site instances, and virtually in around twenty
other countries. They have also received multiple awards including the
Jaime Castillo Velasco Award from the Chilean Human Rights Commission
(2020), the Design of the Year Award in the digital category (2020), The
Design Museum, UK, and recognition by TIME magazine in The 2020
TIME100, TIME's list of the world's most influential people.
