Felipe Castelblanco

Detrás de la Noche [Behind the Night]

As part of the show Parliament of Plants II at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz. Featuring in-progress work form the research project Plants_Intelligence: Learning Like a Plant…

Ayênan: Water Territories

A Documentary film Co-directed with Lydia Zimmermann. (34 min). 2020Â

Water Territories at Helmhaus, Zürich

A project by Felipe Castelblanco with Lydia Zimmermann and Ñambi Rimai Media Collective

Conceived as a participatory research process in the Southwest of Colombia, the films gathered…

La Sombra en la Oscuridad

[The Shadow Gets Lost in Darkness] is a musical monument to Medellín’s complexities in 2022. With Trafico MC and Collaborators.

EN: The Shadow gets lost in Darkness is an act…

Nowhere Islands 2019 (From the ‘Driftless’ Series)

From the Series Driftless. Captiva, Florida USA. Support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation as part of the Artist in Residency Program. July 2019

From the Series Driftless…

Cartographies of The Unseen

A body of work that stems from a practice-based research project (PhD) investigating clashing territorial logics in the Colombian Pan-Amazon region.

Driftless

(Three Channel Video Installation for the Quebec Biennale at La Bande Video Gallery.
Quebec City, Canada. 2019)

Driftless explores notions of nationhood as a form of contemporary…

Borderless TV (Refugee Storytelling And Media Collective)

Refugees are usually in front of the camera, and rarely ever behind it. Interviewed by eager documentarians or put on the spot in talk shows as human-interest informants, they must…

The Foreigner

In collaboration with Jon RubinÂ and commissioned by SPACES gallery in Cleveland, Ohio and San Diego Museum of Art, California 2013

â€œThe Foreignerâ€ presents an uncanny circumstance…

Norte Es Sur / South Is North

Norte Sur / South is North, is a reinterpretation of popular cartography and dominant geographies. It is a traveling object, a contemporary World Atlas, and a book of maps made in collaboration…

Mote Gallery

Mote Gallery was nomadic art platform for experimentation and public engagement initiated in Columbus, OH – USA in 2013. It started as the largest, tiny gallery in the USA, …

The People’s Island

Project Commissioned by the US State Department, US Embassy and ZERO1. More at: http://americanartsincubator.org/

Location: Bacolod City, Philippines // Duration: 4 …

Las Reinas / The Queens

Collaboration with Jesus Benavente. Commissioned by the Queens Museum (NY – USA) for the Queens International, 2016.

For Las Reinas, Benavente and Castelblanco collaborated…

The People’s Monument(s)

A temporary public artwork using augmented reality (AR) as a way to explore avenues for participatory urban planning and counter-monument design.

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We Paint Houses in Philly

During most of June of 2014 I Â developed the project WE PAINT HOUSES as part of my solo show at Practice Gallery in Philadelphia.

In this case, I used the gallery space as the office / …

Anthem

Intsallation at BkSq Pittsburgh &Â Future Tenant Gallery

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“Anthem” is an ongoing project that explores nationalism and geopolitics as a form of symbolic…

(un)bound

(un)bound is an exploration of air as a material embodiment of the public sphere. It is also an experiment that pushes the boundaries of site-specificity and public art.Â

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East of the Sun

Royal Academy Schools, London. UK. Installation and Mixed Media.

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The Wrong PLace

This series explores notions of nationhood as a form of contemporary confinement. Through performance, videos, and installation, the pieces encompassed in The Wrong…

Re-Tratos

CamagÃ¼ey International Video Art Festival in Cuba (April, 2013)

Real-Time Face Tracking and Projection Mapping.

Re-Tratos (Portraying || Dealing With) is an interactive…

Air Trafficking

Habana Air:

October 17th, 2012, I smuggled one liter of Cuban air across the border through U.S. Customs, in direct violation of the 51-year embargo.

Tehran, Iran
In February of 2013,…

The DRIFT

http://driftpgh.com/

The Drift is a floating platform for creative projects that explore the rivers and waterfronts within the city of Pittsburgh. In the spring of 2012, a team of…

Temporary Monuments (Urban Intervention)

Experiments in video projection onto CMU’s heating system exhaust.

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LIDO (Urban Intervention)

Leslie Pool in Lawrenceville. Pittsburgh, US.
August 2012.

This sculptural gesture seeks to engage in a humorous dialogue with the building and site (a former recreational public…

La Escuela Para-Sitio (The Para-Site School)

“Parasitism is defined as a type of non mutual relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, …

Public Art / Billboard

New Public Project:
Billboard in Pittsburgh Downtown (5th Ave at Stevenson St.)

Y si fuere obra del destino / As ifÂ it were a work of destiny

The iconic map of Pittsburgh drawn on the…

Ephemeral Museum

The Ephemeral Museum of Venice, BogotÃ¡.
http://museo.fundacionvisiva.org/

The museum was build on the roof of the Venice’s community cernter by VISIVA Foundation, Arq.…

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
Tough Art Residency, Summer 2011

What if you could see, hear and feel beyond the walls of a museum?

The Invisible Wall is…

Mira lo que EYE

Storefront installation in the West End of Pittsburgh.
This piece was commission by Future Tenant Gallery and the West End Association for an empty Storefront in Pittsburgh, PA.…