Tamara Cubas (*1972) lives and works in her home country Uruguay. She received a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the National School of Fine Arts Institute at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. She also holds a master’s degree in Art and Technology from the School of the Arts in Utrecht, The Netherlands where she became an EMMA Award winner – Image & Technology. Tamara Cubas studied contemporary dance at the Contradanza School in Montevideo.
In her stage practices Tamara Cubas has developed two lines of research - one that delves into the performative body in a constant search for the autonomy of the body based on her own concepts such as the Aesthetics of Precarity. In this line she investigates the power of Latin American bodies endowed with memories, history and particular experiences and their constant search for decolonization.
The second line refers to the Other, where she develops projects with non-artistic populations and communities. In this path the recurring themes are History, The Homeland, Power, The political, interpersonal relationships, heterogeneity and dissent.
Tamara Cubas has worked as a cultural producer designing and producing projects and actions for dissemination, training and exchange in the field of art, such as festivals, meetings, seminars, etc. She has also carried out projects in the public sphere at the Uruguayan Ministry of Culture where she was in charge of performing arts festivals and exhibition spaces, and has been an advisor and jury member in various instances related to art and culture. Tamra Cubas runs her own enterprise, Campo Abierto, a cultural farm in Uruguay with services and programming specialised in art and culture.