Santiago Cao
Santiago Cao is a performance artist, urban planner, educator, and investigator of public spaces, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a Master’s in Urbanism from Universidad Federal de la Bahía in Brazil and a degree in Visual Arts from Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina. Throughout the past decade, Cao has spent his time living nomadically, splitting his life between Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. With regard to his art practice, Santiago Cao enacts performances that largely explore the topics of Bodies in public spaces, the social rules that govern them, and the cultural significance bestowed upon and evoked by the body. As Santiago lives a nomadic lifestyle, his performance also takes place across a multitude of different cities throughout Latin America.