Líneas de fuga de la fiesta oficial: Apuntes en torno al Encuentro de Teatro Porteño Independiente

Abstract

On year 2004, the theater company Teatro la Peste, creates the Encuentro de Teatro Porteño Independiente, as a direct alternative to the Valparaiso's Carnavales Culturales, which years earlier had been promoted by the chilean government. The meeting, which is realized until today, looked forward to create a platform for the multiplicity of people related to the theater in the region and to democratize the access of the public, facing up the institutional discourse on culture in a city marked by it's status of "cultural capital of Chile". This article proposes different reading keys in order to get an insight of the tensions between both events.