Lesson 01
The lab is the format
The most transferable part is not one performance but the development process that lets journalism and art shape each other.
Case 12 / live journalism case
Laboratorio de periodismo performatico
Revista Anfibia's laboratory for developing performative journalism across Latin America and Spain.
Location
Argentina
Period
Founded 2018; Testosterona listed for 2026
Organisation
Revista Anfibia / LPP
Format
Performative journalism lab
// IN A NUTSHELL
What this case proves
A production method rather than a single show: journalists and artists develop investigations together until the reporting can be experienced through bodies, space, sound, image, and audience presence.
// BACKGROUND
Before the room filled
Context 01
The Laboratorio de Periodismo Performatico was created in 2018 by Revista Anfibia and Casa Sofia, led by Cristian Alarcon.
Context 02
It grew from Anfibia's search for new narrative forms when conventional journalism felt insufficient for complex social realities.
Context 03
The lab connects Latin American narrative journalism, performance, biodrama, documentary theatre, sound, and visual experimentation.
// CASE THESIS
Why it belongs in the field
The case belongs because it is not just one production. It is a development infrastructure for making journalism performable.
LPP is an experimental space founded by Revista Anfibia.
It supports journalists and artists through open calls, mentorship, and production.
Since 2018 it has co-produced pieces across Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Spain.
Testosterona is listed as a recent production exploring new masculinities through autobiographical, journalistic, scientific, and historical research.
// HOW IT WORKS
The format has mechanics
Mechanic 01
Teams pair journalists, academics, researchers, or writers with artists and move through workshops, weekly tutorials, clinics, dramaturgy, and production support.
Mechanic 02
The investigation and performance evolve together, rather than adapting a finished article after the fact.
Mechanic 03
Open calls and mentorship make the lab a repeatable production infrastructure instead of a one-off showcase.
// FORMAT STRUCTURE
Format first. Productions inside.
Type tags
High-production/performance
Nested events / productions
// PRODUCTION FILE
How it moved through time
01
The first edition launched in 2018, with later work in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Spain.
02
Testosterona by Cristian Alarcon and Lorena Vega uses autobiographical, scientific, historical, and journalistic research around body, masculinity, and conversion practices.
03
The 2025 Argentina edition with Finnegans focused on the ghosts of artificial intelligence and selected three works for Festival Futuro Imperfecto.
// LESSONS
What the case teaches
Lesson 02
Autobiography needs public evidence
A body on stage can open the story, but the case remains journalistic when it connects that body to systems, documents, and history.
Lesson 03
Mentorship is editorial infrastructure
Weekly development and clinics are what keep experimentation from becoming loose spectacle.
// BORROW
What travels
Open-call development
Journalist-artist mentorship
Research into performance
Regional co-production
// DO NOT COPY
What can break
Showcase without process
Artist garnish
Autobiography without public evidence
// SOURCE TRAIL
Where the dossier points
// ALL 12 CASES
Same form, different room
