A quipu is a textile artefact made from ropes and knots, woven by Andrean women as a form of memorial. Similarly, Wayqeycuna follows artist Tiziana Cruz as he takes the knotty path back to childhood in northern Argentina to reconnect with his community.
This intimate, politically-charged performance is rooted in archival work and unfolds as a poetic response to systems of racial hierarchy and structural domination. In a world where neoliberalism violently erases cultural memory and collective identity, Wayqeycuna is both an offering and resistance.
The work forms the final part of Cruz’s trilogy Three Ways to Sing to a Mountain, interweaving personal history with critical reflections on the art market and class privilege. Through carefully constructed gestures and rich visual language, Cruz invites us into his childhood memories to witness how remembrance can be a radical act.
Part of Take Me Somewhere 2025.
Image credit: Maryse Boyce
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Tiziano Cruz is an interdisciplinary artist whose work fundamentally brings together visual and theatrical language, performance and artistic intervention in public space. Tiziano has been a grantee of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Instituto Nacional del Teatro ARG. He was a winner of the Bienal de Arte Joven 2019 and winner of the ANTI award, Finland, 2023; and in 2024 he wins “The ZKB Audience Prize 2024” at Zürcher Theater Spektakel -Switzerland.
He is the founder of the Cultural Management Platform ULMUS, dedicated to the mediation between different cultural organizations in Argentina and neighbouring countries. He has worked as a Content Producer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. His works have toured Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Francia, Switzerland, Germany, Finland and the USA.
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Credits//
General director, playwright and performer / Director, autor y performer: Tiziano Cruz
Dramaturg / Dramaturgista: Rodrigo Herrera
Artistic collaboration / Colaboración artística: Rio Paraná (Duen Sacchi y Mag De Santo)
Technical coordination, filmmaker, photography, sound and music design / Coordinación técnica, realización de videos, foto, sonido y musicalización: Matías Gutiérrez
Lights design / Diseño de luces: Matías Sendón
Costume design and realization and artistic production / Diseño de vestuario y producción artística: Luciana Iovane
Executive production / Producción ejecutiva: Ulmus Gestión Cultural
International relations, production and management / Relaciones internacionales, producción y management: Cecilia Kuska (ROSA studio)
Creation residencies / Residencias de creación: La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (España), CRL – Central Eléctrica (Portugal). Coproducers / Coproductores: MITsp (Sao Paulo International Theater Exhibition), Festival d’Avignon, La Bâtie, Zurich Theater Spektakel, Ulmus Gestión Cultural & ROSA studio
With the support of / Con el apoyo de: FIBA (Buenos Aires International Festival) and CCKonex (Konex Cultural City, Buenos Aires), CRL – Central Eléctrica (Portugal). With the help of / Con la ayuda de: Comunidad del pueblo San Francisco y Santa Bárbara, Jujuy – Argentina. La familia Cruz por acompañar esta nueva creación
