Paz Guevara is a curator, cultural critic, and author who lives between Berlin and Latin America. She studied literature and linguistics at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, where she was assistant professor of literature theory (2001–04). Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Kulturwissenschaft Institut, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Paz has realized curatorial projects based on research and contingent problems, such as indigenous contemporary positions, strategies of cultural translation, and rewriting history. Paz was curator of the exhibition on cultural translation In Other Words: The Black Market of Translations—Negotiating Contemporary Cultures at NGBK and Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin (2012); co-curator of the Latin American Pavilion at the 55th and 54th Venice Biennale (2013 and 2011); co-curator of the 1st Montevideo Biennial, in Uruguay (2013); co-curator of the 6th Curitiba Biennial, Brazil (2011); and curator of Comunidad Ficticia in Matucana 100, Santiago (2009), among others. During 2010-13, Paz researched in more than eighteen Latin American cities, as co-curator of the Goethe-Institut Latin American program, realizing new commissions, collaborative projects, and exhibitions at several art institutions on the continent. For the 7th Berlin Biennale in 2012, she conceived the workshop “Curating in Times of Need” for the “Young Curators’ Workshop,” a nine-day program of analysis and reflection on the artistic and curatorial contingent positions that emerge from political and cultural changes—from the Arab revolutions, through various Occupy movements, to the students’ protests in Chile—and the pressing need to imagine alternative civil societies utilizing the means of art. Currently, she is taking part as a researcher and author in a long-term project in the region of Patagonia (Chile), together with the artists Olaf Holzapfel and Sebastián Preece; this takes the Anthropocene thesis as a productive tool to denaturalize the modern and republican configuration of the space, its landscape, and architecture. The region has been described as a place of “pristine nature” in tourist and state discourse, although its rural space, architecture, and landscape were produced from the late nineteenth century onward within the framework of Chile’s republican colonization project in Patagonia. Moreover, the region has been described in traditional historiography as an “uninhabited” territory before this colonization, denying the indigenous population of Tehuelches, Chonos, and Alacalufes who had inhabited the area for 10,000 years but were then displaced and mostly exterminated by the colonial and modern reconfiguration of their space. (Further reading: Paz Guevara, Territory as Living Archive(Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile, 2014).