In Santiago, Plaza de Armas and its surroundings are territories in dispute. Here, hundreds of people carry multiple activities, either for financially subsisting or resisting their own political positions. Street commerce; prostitution; tourism; protests; services fishing; ephemeral arts performances; musicians; comedians; evangelical preaching; within many other manifestations are happening on its daily life. The square is a place occupied by bodies and identities dissimilar which in a organic manner appropriate – at times briefly, others daily – of benches, sculptures, subway exits, the Cathedrals surroundings and even the big letters STGO. While wondering about this diverse place, movement is a constant.

Espacio218 depicts its second curatorial season as “Ocupar el Flujo; Occupy the flow” which is an invitation to rethink ways to join the daily grind. This call is centered around fleeting activities that occur on the square and so to provoke new within the heterogeneity described priorly. This year we search for proposals that consider their development in the residency, as well as outside, to create ways, materials, and thematic lines of occupying the square and its surroundings.

After our first year of experimentation, we consider that the artistic can deepen through those flows, lay bridges and even disagreements, just as quotidian experiences. We no longer believe it’s necessary to solely anchor or observe other practices, but rather to introduce own as possibilities in that universe where no permission is needed.