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Andrea Galano Toro (ES, CL~1997) is an artist, graphic designer, and researcher currently based in Berlin. Andrea’s practice explores storytelling as a gesture to activate and enchant transformational experiences through her experimental film installations, graphic work, performance, workshops, and lectures. Her films and research have a record of speculating the voices of elements, landscapes, and more-than-human characters which in many ways, re-configure the heteronormative storytelling logics. Her focus on storytelling encompasses ecological narratives, animism, hybridity, magic, and dreams; which for her, re-enchant this world, open new worlds and allow for a regenerative narrative to birth in a society of rigidity and linearity. Her graphic work, which is not separate from her artist-identity; is heavily based on materializing not only words, but visual motifs that embody a narration as well. Her graphic language involves gestures such as ornaments,illustrations, photography, website design, and riso-printing.
Within her collective called Cruda shared with her research and art collaborator, Laila Saber Rodriguez, they facilitate experimental workshops, performance readings, and lectures. The duo explores their practice of spell-writing, monsters, hybrids, and shapeshifters
Mail me!
@cruda.collective
@andygalano
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Within her collective called Cruda shared with her research and art collaborator, Laila Saber Rodriguez, they facilitate experimental workshops, performance readings, and lectures. The duo explores their practice of spell-writing, monsters, hybrids, and shapeshifters
Mail me!
@cruda.collective
@andygalano
2020-present
Cruda Collective,
Research duo with Laila Saber Rodríguez.
2021-present
Andrea Galano Toro.
Freelance Graphic designer and filmaker.
2021
Graphic design Internship at Slavs and Tatars, Berlin, DE.
2018-2020
Honours Programme, Minor in Theory and Research.
ArtEZ University of the Arts. Deventer, NL.
2017-2021
BA Graphic Design, ArtEZ University of the Arts. Arnhem, NL
2016
BA Design (first year)
Universidad de Chile, FAU. Santiago, CL.
2023
BEING ALL EARS with gal sherizly, is a space to shift the attention of the senses through playful exercises of deep listening, writing, and embodiment.Part of the seminar Planetary Embodiment led by Luïza Luz. Udk Berlin, DE.
2023
SHAPESHIFTERS making a postnatural bestiary. Workshop by Cruda Collective as part of the exhibition THE MEASURE OF THE WORLD.RADIUS CCA, Delft NL.
2023
RAINFOREST AS METHODOLOGY by Cruda Collective. Rainforests will be presented as a mirror of the student’s artistic practice, through which the students can begin to translate ecological principles to a method to dissect and situate their artistic research practice. with APRIA, at AKI, ArtEZ Enschede, NL.
2023
We are all jinxed with Failure: a Path of Curse-breaking. Spellwriting workshop by Cruda Collective. Part of the program: it broke but its ok we still have the pieces.
At Extrapool.
Nijmegen, NL.
2022
PRIVILEGE OF DREAMING-ZINE + Gal Sherizl. Writing workshop part of the Planetary Embodiment Decay and Transformation in Language, Culture, and its Narratives, taught by Luïza Luz.. Where the students write a glossary and a collective recipe for Dreaming.
2022
HYBRIDZ,SPELLZ, TONGUEZ & RAW BEINGZ. Three day workshop taught by Cruda collective, On spells, wxtchcraft, hybrid identities and decolonial narratives, as part of KetiKoti week at ArtEZ Theather Deparment, Arnhem, NL.
Cruda Collective,
Research duo with Laila Saber Rodríguez.
2021-present
Andrea Galano Toro.
Freelance Graphic designer and filmaker.
2021
Graphic design Internship at Slavs and Tatars, Berlin, DE.
2018-2020
Honours Programme, Minor in Theory and Research.
ArtEZ University of the Arts. Deventer, NL.
2017-2021
BA Graphic Design, ArtEZ University of the Arts. Arnhem, NL
2016
BA Design (first year)
Universidad de Chile, FAU. Santiago, CL.
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS:
2023
BEING ALL EARS with gal sherizly, is a space to shift the attention of the senses through playful exercises of deep listening, writing, and embodiment.Part of the seminar Planetary Embodiment led by Luïza Luz. Udk Berlin, DE.
2023
SHAPESHIFTERS making a postnatural bestiary. Workshop by Cruda Collective as part of the exhibition THE MEASURE OF THE WORLD.RADIUS CCA, Delft NL.
2023
RAINFOREST AS METHODOLOGY by Cruda Collective. Rainforests will be presented as a mirror of the student’s artistic practice, through which the students can begin to translate ecological principles to a method to dissect and situate their artistic research practice. with APRIA, at AKI, ArtEZ Enschede, NL.
2023
We are all jinxed with Failure: a Path of Curse-breaking. Spellwriting workshop by Cruda Collective. Part of the program: it broke but its ok we still have the pieces.
At Extrapool.
Nijmegen, NL.
2022
PRIVILEGE OF DREAMING-ZINE + Gal Sherizl. Writing workshop part of the Planetary Embodiment Decay and Transformation in Language, Culture, and its Narratives, taught by Luïza Luz.. Where the students write a glossary and a collective recipe for Dreaming.
2022
HYBRIDZ,SPELLZ, TONGUEZ & RAW BEINGZ. Three day workshop taught by Cruda collective, On spells, wxtchcraft, hybrid identities and decolonial narratives, as part of KetiKoti week at ArtEZ Theather Deparment, Arnhem, NL.
RESIDENCIES:
2022
TERRA PETRA Residency, Valley of the possible made possible through Museo del Hongo. Araucania, CL.
2022
OnSite Residency, with Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge. Berlin, DE.
PERFORMANCE:
2023
TENEBRIS, by Cruda Collective. Lecture / performance reading of Deserts of Water, exploring fluig narratives and dark birthings, but it starts with the temperature droping...
At Not Just a Fair.
Arnhem, NL
2023
ENSUEÑOS by Cruda Collective in collaboration with sound artist Ruisvogel. Spell cast form dreaming while awake. Part of the programm: It broke but its ok we still have the pieces. at Extrapool, Nijmegen.
EXPOSITIONS & SCREENINGS:
2022
SONIC ACTS Biennale, at W139 Amsterdam, NL.
SONIC ACTS Biennale, at W139 Amsterdam, NL.
2022
OnSite Festival, with Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge. Berlin, DE.
OnSite Festival, with Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge. Berlin, DE.
2022
COMMON JOY ISN´T FOR US.
Group show and activation from Privileadge of Dreaming Invited by Interspace Collective.
After the Butcher, Berlin, DE.
2022
WASTELAND.
Video “the pill” shown in GalerieDeJaloezie‘s screens of as part of their found-footage selection Digital Debris.
The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague,NL.
COMMON JOY ISN´T FOR US.
Group show and activation from Privileadge of Dreaming Invited by Interspace Collective.
After the Butcher, Berlin, DE.
2022
WASTELAND.
Video “the pill” shown in GalerieDeJaloezie‘s screens of as part of their found-footage selection Digital Debris.
The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague,NL.
2022
HOME CINEMA
Edition Unreliable Narrators. Online Event, (watch here).
Physical at Reneenee AMS.
HOME CINEMA
Edition Unreliable Narrators. Online Event, (watch here).
Physical at Reneenee AMS.
2021
MAFA, with Museum Arnhem & Focus, Arnhem, NL.
MAFA, with Museum Arnhem & Focus, Arnhem, NL.
2021
FIBER FESTIVAL, Mutation Stream: Short film festival.(ONLINE) Amsterdam, NL.
FIBER FESTIVAL, Mutation Stream: Short film festival.(ONLINE) Amsterdam, NL.
2021
What’s present
ArtEZ Graduation Exhibition. Arnhem, NL
2019
Algorythmic Fitness
Motel Spatie. Arnhem NL.
2019
Parasiting Parasites
Motel Spatie, Arnhem NL.
2018
Ruimtekoers Festival
Ruimtekoers, Arnhem, NL.
INTERVIEWS & TALKS:
2021
MAFA, World building alumni Talk with Laila Saber Rodriguez. Arnhem, NL.
MAFA, World building alumni Talk with Laila Saber Rodriguez. Arnhem, NL.
2021
Syntax Finals 2021 Podcast with Laila Saber Rodriguez ArtEZ Institute of the Arts.
2020
Cruda collective Interview for Collide 24, platfrom for collaborations.
With Laila Saber Rodriguez
2019
The hmm speaker at MotelSpatie with Celine Caly.
WRITEN & SPOKEN CONTRIBUTIONS:
2022
ECOES #3, Sonic Acts Festival 2022 in Amsterdam.
2022
SPREAD MAG Issue 5 Movement. De Allá pa Acá.
AMS-BCN.
2021
Panocha Zine
Ancestors Issue, Spell para atravesar One Hundred Homes by Cruda Collective
Arnhem, NL.
2021
Playground Publication
With text: Grietas liquidas, Liquid cracks.
Arnhem, NL.
2021
Daisyworld Mag Winter-Spring issue, Spell for Crossing written by Cruda Collective
Amsterdam, NL.
2021
Snaky Zine Magic Issue, Shapeshifting Spell written by Cruda Collective
Amsterdam,NL.
2020
Episode SURREPTITIOUS SYRUP Online Radio JaJaJaNeeNeeNee. With Laila Saber Rodriguez.
Amsterdam NL
2019
Kiwi podcast.
Podcast ArtEZ. Studium Generale. With Honorus Programme.
Arnhem NL.
LENGUAGE:
Spanish (MT)
English (C1)
German (B1)
Dutch (A2)