​Isabel Burr Raty has a background as an activist working in collaboration with the indigenous Rapa Nui people of Easter Island Chile, in their struggle for autonomy. She is professor of media theory and mentor at ERG (École de Recherche Grafique), as well as an affiliated researcher at nadine Laboratory for Contemporary Arts, in Brussels.

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Burr Raty is a person of chilean/belgian roots, Kung Fu trainer and artist, situated somewhere in between live and visual arts. Aiming to bring to light chapters left out of history books and re-think the memory of the future, her practice explores the interstices between the organic and the artificial. By looking into diverse matter meanings and healing approaches, from a wide range of ancestral, as well as scientific perspectives, her hybrid art work combines living materials, analogue and digital media to install settings that blur fiction and reality. These settings invite the public to embody collective experiences of transformation and craft magic and anticolonial objects. Such as the ‘Beauty Kit Farm’ (2017-2022) and ‘The Spine’ (2024 onwards).

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Since 2016 Isabel has joined a number of research organizations : a.pass, EU project Staying in Touch, wpZimmer, etc., where she has curated a series of events about sci-fi worldings and territories restoration, amongst other topics. In 2018 Amsterdam Arts Fund awarded her with the 3 Package Deal Grant, which partnered her to Waag Futurelab and Mediamatic Art, nature and food in Amsterdam.

 

Isabel's works, workshops and collaborations have been shown and programmed internationally at i.e.: Viernulvier, Campo, Museum Dhont-Dhaenes Ghent, KVS Theatre, La Loge, Constant_V Brussels, Out of Sight Antwerp, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Kapelica Gallery and Kersnikova Institute Ljubljana, TRAFO Poland, ISEA Hong Kong, Cultivamos Cultura Portugal, Vondel CS Amsterdam, Ars Electronica Linz. Furthermore, she has given talks and performative lectures at Queer Eco-futures Queen Mary's University London, FACTT Humboldt University Berlin, Science Friction Aki Institute Enschede University, FEMeeting Faculty of the Arts Lisbon University, Taboo Transgression Transcendence in Art and Science Ionian University Corfu, Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences University of the Arts Berlin, Human Enhancement Clinic Border Sessions the Hague, etc.

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Isabel has postmaster in advanced performance and scenography studies obtained in a.pass Brussels. She studied Philosophy at the Alberto Hurtado University and LeCoq Physical Theatre at La Mancha, both in Santiago Chile, as well as imaginative Realism Method at Chekhov Studio in London. She has an extensive research in theosophy, biology and physics, and over a decade of inland-living experience with communities of the Andes and Polynesia. In 2015 she started a focused training in Sexual Kung Fu and inner alchemy with Mantak Chia at the Universal Tao Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand.​​​​​​​​​​​