Electrified voices emerge from inside the house, as if an interview was being recorded. This is the headquarters of the community television channel Señal 3 of the La Victoria settlement, which broadcasts a daily program dedicated to the vicissitudes of the community. On the façade is a motto: “Communication at the service of the people.”

Meet Baleska, a hard-working van belonging to Instituto Tele Arte in Santiago. In October 2024, OtherNetwork supported curator Enrique Flores (Instituto Telearte) and artist Paulina Mellado (Oficinas Meteoro) in their ambitious road-trip exhibition across the Atacama desert, bringing the work of 18 artists to new audiences from Santiago to Copiapó and back.

Trinidad Lopetegui and Sebastian Rojas from Galería CIMA joined Daniel Aguayo and OtherNetwork to discuss the role that Galería CIMA played during the social unrest that swept through Santiago in October 2019. This landmark event raised new questions about the potential roles that independent art spaces could assume within a society facing pressure.

On 14 December 2023, OtherNetwork researcher Camila Alegría Z. invited renowned feminist performance collective Las Tesis for a discussion at Espacio Checoeslovaquia, an experimental performance space in the San Joaquin neighbourhood of Santiago.