L.A.S [Laboratorio de Artistas Sostenibles] 

Scenic poetics to dismantle the dominant

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L.A.S. is a Colombian-Mexican platform for research and creation in live arts, founded in 2018 by Laura Uribe (Mexican stage director, playwright, and teacher) and Sabina Aldana (Colombian-Mexican stage designer and art director), both with over fifteen years of experience in contemporary performing arts.

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The laboratory develops a radically interdisciplinary and political practice that weaves together body, territory, memory, technology, science, and everyday life. Through scenic devices of a documentary, experimental, and immersive nature, L.A.S. explores new expanded theatricalities and performativities that actively engage with specific contexts and pressing social issues such as climate crisis, structural violence, sex-gender dissidence, and the affective memory of endangered territories.

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Sustainability, in their practice, goes beyond its ecological connotation: it becomes a fertile system of thought and affect, a micropolitical strategy that shelters what is fragile and holds what is possible. Through a sympoietic dramaturgy—“creating-with”—their works assemble multiple languages (theater, dance, installation, design, music, multimedia), dismantling hierarchies between disciplines, bodies, and knowledges in a sensitive search that disrupts dominant narratives and embraces diversity, intimacy, and the unfinished.

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From an intersectional perspective, L.A.S. articulates scenic devices that cross documentary, performance, science, and technology to destabilize norms and open cracks in dominant discourses. Our approach is symbiotic and micropolitical: to produce affect, generate encounters, and plant questions where words no longer suffice.

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Their most representative works include: BACKYARD [A field to search], produced by the Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin, Germany, 2025); CUIR LOVE [A scenic essay with sex-gender dissidences] (EFIARTES, 2024); LES DESERTORES [Scenic documentary with trans youth] (2024); INDUMENTARIAS PARA NO DESAPARECER, by Sabina Aldana (recipient of the Cultural Co-Investment Grant SACPC, 2022); CALLE AMOR (EFIARTES, 2022); ARCHIVO VIVO, created for Changing Places / Espacios Revelados in Guadalajara, Jalisco; and LOW COST [Scenic landscape on the climate crisis], winner of the CONACYT 2019 grant for the social appropriation of knowledge in humanities, science, and technology.

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Each creation unfolds as a rhizomatic process—a mycelial network of archives, objects, voices, materials, and affections—that germinates into insurgent scenic experiences. L.A.S. does not seek to represent conflict but to inhabit it in all its complexity, provoking a critical polyphony that resonates beyond the stage. They work with the real and its mutations: with what burns, what hurts, and what can still be imagined.

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