| Santiago Rodríguez Tricot 산티아고 로드리게스 트리코트 |
Visual artist and light designer 시각 예술가 그리고 조명 디자이너 |
Ágora / Pláka - OutResidence Awards, Portugal 산티아고 로드리게스 트리코트는 확장된 공연 예술과 무대 디자인 분야를 아우르는 다학제적 예술가로, 그의 작품 활동은 인간과 비인간 신체, 그리고 이들이 처한 환경 간의 물리적, 허구적, 수행적 관계를 탐구하며, 특히 환상, 투명성, 광채, 어둠에 중점을 두고 있다. Santiago Rodríguez Tricot is an interdisciplinary artist and light designer, born in Uruguay and based in Portugal. Across expanded performance, spatial design, and site-specific installation, his practice explores the physical, fictional, and performative relationships between human and non-human bodies, their environments, and narratives, using them as critical tools for rethinking how we inhabit a world in constant transformation. |
CV
| EDUCATION |
2019-2020 | MA in Performing Arts and Visual Culture, Museo Reina Sofia - UCLM, Madrid, Spain 2004-2014 | BFA in Plastic and Visual Arts, UDELAR, Montevideo, Uruguay 2009-2012 | BFA in Multidisciplinary Theatre Arts, EMAD, Montevideo, Uruguay 2005-2006 | Tertiary Studies in Arts and Sculpture, UTU, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| AWARDS & GRANTS |
2026 | PLÁKA / Ágora - OutResidence, Porto, Portugal |
| RESIDENCIES |
2026 | Artistic Residency OSSO, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2020 | Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
| PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS |
2026 | PHANTOM, Circular Festival, Vila do Conde, Portugal 2025 | [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙ɛ𝖗𝖗𝖆] Radio Broadcast, OSSO, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2025 | OUROBOROS, FIDCU, Montevideo, Uruguay 2026 | PHANTOM, Gaivotas 6, Lisbon, Portugal 2024 | OUROBOROS, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Chile 2024 | OUROBOROS, INAE, Montevideo, Uruguay 2024 | OUROBOROS, mala voadora, Porto, Portugal 2023 | RESONATING ISLANDS, ARQUIPÉLAGO, São Miguel Island, Portugal 2019 | HORMIGONERA, NIDO, Rivera, Uruguay 2019 | EXPLÍCITO, CCE (Cultural Center of Spain), Montevideo, Uruguay 2019 | EXPLÍCITO, Planta, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017 | HORMIGONERA, FIDCU, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| WORKSHOPS / RESEARCH |
2026 | Spark Playground TOTATOGA (Research / Workshop), Busan, South Korea 2025 | PACAP 8: Mystery School of Choreography (Workshop), Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal 2023 | PACAP 6: Performing Arts Advanced Programme (Workshop), Forum Dança, Lisbon, Portugal 2022 | PACAP 5: Performing Arts Advanced Programme (Research), Forum Dança, Lisbon, Portugal 2019 | HORMIGONERA (Workshop), NIDO, Rivera, Uruguay 2017 | CONSTRUCCIÓN IMPROBABLE (Workshop), Wood Technology Program, UDELAR, Rivera, Uruguay 2012-2019 | FIDCU (Co-Technical Director), Montevideo, Uruguay |
| PUBLICATION |
2025 | UNDOING LISTENING co-authored with Sara Vieira Marques |
| ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS |
2026 - present | Community choir CORDÃO, PARTIS & Art for Change, Braga, Portugal 2024 – present | Exploratory Group of Sonic Practices, Portugal 2012 - 202X | Artistic Collaborations (Spatial and Light Design) with: Tamara Cubas (UY), Catarina Miranda (PT), Juan Domínguez (SP), Marcela Levi (BR) & Lucía Russo (ARG), Vera Mantero (PT), Meg Stuart (US), Gustavo Ciríaco (BR), Mieko Suzuki (JP), Pedro Melo Alves (PT), Florencia Lindner (UY), Connor Scott (GB), Yann Marussich (CH), Glockenwise (PT). |
작업 Artworks
| FATA MORGANA |
Installation - Performance Totatoga - Artist in Residence International Exchange, Busan, South Korea 2026 Fata Morgana shifts an ongoing investigation into sensory destabilization toward a new material and conceptual focus: water. Taking its title from the mythological shape-shifting entity whose name translates to "born of the sea," the project borrows the Fata Morgana—a complex optical mirage caused by thermal inversion—as its conceptual framework. In this atmospheric event, distant objects like ships or islands distort into unrecognizable forms, exposing the inherent unreliability of sight. The research examines the friction between what is physically present, what is obscured, what the eye constructs, and what the imagination evokes and projects, framing perception as an exercise suspended between past and future. Here, seas and rivers are approached not as landscapes, but as charged elements bound to migration, transit, promises, and extinction. Within this ecology of constant movement, the horizon ceases to be a passive distant line, emerging instead as a physical and political boundary. |
| HOLDING LISTENING |
Soundwalk Arca Dias Abertos, OSSO, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2026 Holding Listening is a site-specific research project and collective soundwalk developed within the framework of [finisˈtɛrra] — Practices and Theories for the End of the World. Continuing an exploration of gestures and economies of attention, this soundwalk traces a path through the landscapes of São Gregório, a small village in Portugal, as an exercise in expanded listening. Between walking and listening, the project invites participants to make space for their surroundings, the invisible, and the inaudible, calling upon not only hearing but also seeing, contemplating, moving, and imagining. Through site-specific field recordings and a spoken text delivered directly into participants' phones, the work sets out to recover the acoustic memory of a river that once ran through the valley millions of years ago and has since vanished entirely from sight. If a landscape disappears from view over the course of geological time, does it disappear from memory as well, or does it persist? How do you bring back a river to a river? |
| RESONATING ISLANDS |
| Performance and Listening Session Arquipélago – Contemporary Art Center, Azores, Portugal 2023 RESONATING ISLANDS is the first experiment of Resonating Islands_A Sonorous Archipelago, an artistic research project by Sara Vieira Marques and Santiago Rodríguez Tricot about the material and ecological experience of the human body when confronted with its natural and phenomenological environment. Developed over a three-month residency in the Azores Islands, the research was conducted in collaboration with IVAR (Instituto de Investigação em Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos) and the University of the Azores. This project took the form of a performance and listening session, where light and sound were generated in real time by live seismic data monitoring the region — in the Azores, constant seismic activity is, potentially, the origin of a new island still being formed. The research engaged with an archipelago that is still becoming, still changing its own environment, diluting boundaries between performing and visual arts: topographies, geographies, and meteorologies emerge where the human body is neither the place nor the central narrative — mountains, which are islands, which are volcanoes, which are the center of the earth, which are the beginning.
Grants: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT) |
| OUROBOROS |
| Light and Sound Installation - Performance mala voadora, Porto, Portugal 2024 Ouroboros is a light installation developed in dialogue with Undoing Listening, a performance that explores the physical and conceptual dimensions of listening and seeing, approaching them as technologies for “futuring.” This inquiry takes the form of an installation built around the idea of total visibility and seeing. Intense white light fills the space, eliminating shadows and flattening distinctions between colour and form. What appears as a condition of complete visibility also evokes how illumination can operate as an instrument of surveillance, control and suggestion. As a performative action, the installation centres on the live assembly and disassembly of a speaker. Through a meticulous doing and undoing, this mechanical process operates as a transfer between the visual object and the acoustic space. |
| INSTRUCTION Nº1 |
LED signs, looped programmes text, standalone mode CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Porto, Portugal 2023 Through repetition, Instruction nº1 extends this inquiry into the relationship between seeing and listening. The installation consists of an LED sign operating continuously in standalone mode, looping a single announcement. Commonly used to communicate clear and direct messages, the element sign becomes a device of reiteration, shifting the message from functional information into a persistent visual presence. |
| HORMIGONERA |
Installation - Performance GEN - Center for Arts and Science, Montevideo, Uruguay 2017 HORMIGONERA is a collaborative creative practice that takes the stage’s physical infrastructure and its elements as its object of study. The project investigates how scenic action can emerge from the relationships between space, matter, light, and sound, rather than being organised primarily by the human figure. It proposes a more ecological approach, understanding these elements as interdependent agents. Taking the concrete mixer as its conceptual framework—a mechanism of constant friction, rotation, and structural transformation—the practice approaches these elements as active dramaturgical agents. Through contact, friction and interaction, their material properties and behaviours become sources of performative action. This process proposes a collaborative approach to dramaturgy in which the environment is not simply a container for action, but an active condition in its emergence. |
