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Project Support from Prohelvetia for Cartographies of the unseen: Colombia 2020

In co-production with artists/filmmaker Lydia Zimmermann, the Indigenous Media Collective Ñambi Rimai, artist Felipe Castelblanco engages in a counter-expedition across ancestral territories in Colombia’s southwest . Using a participatory process, Swiss and Colombian artists will co-produce a filmic cartography that renders visible and subvisible elements of an entangled landscape following the recent forms of indigenous resistance and self-representation. An exhibition will take place form November 28th, 2020 to January 3rd, 2021 at Ausstellungsraum Klingental.

Research group walking in the region of Puntamayo through water territories

Recent Shows:

Exhibition: Té de Bogota at Wild-Palms Gallery, Düsseldorf. March – June 2020
Group Show Curated by Jorge Sanguino and works by
FERNANDO BARRERA
KAREN PAULINA BISWELL
FELIPE CASTELBLANCO
BEATRIZ EUGENIA DIAZ BEJARANO
SIMON HERNANDEZ
feat. SIMON MEJIA (BOMBA ESTEREO)
ERWIN + LORENA KRAUS
JUAN MAYR

Presenting the 3 channel Video Installation Driftless at 4 Days in Motion Festiva in Prague

Seasons of Media at ZKM Karlsruhe. Germany August – September 2019

June – July 2019: Guest / Artist in Residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Studios in Captiva Florida, USA.

Quebec Biennial, 2019 (Canada) Manif d’Art and La Bande Video – February to April 2019

Screenings:

Borderless TV, Film Forum Museum Ludwig, Cologne. December 15th, 2018

Up-River / Rio, Kasko Gallery. Basel, Switzerland November 3 – 4, 2018

Recent Talks:

Videonale 2019 Bonn. Germany. February 21st, 2019

AMRO Festival 2018 Linz Austria. May 5th, 2018

IAM Weekend, Barcelona April 27th, 2018

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On Earth’s day I want to say thank you soils, tr

On Earth’s day I want to say thank you soils, trees, rain, clouds and all those alive today (tiny and huge, human and not) for allowing me to be a part of you... thanks also @alexismeffert for the good news about the reopening of this show which today, more than ever becomes a tribute to an amazing diverse, loving and living place called Colombia 🇨🇴
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From tomorrow on, we can open up our doors again @_wildpalms_ ! 🙌🏻 So if you like to see our current show “Té De Bogotá”, write us to make an appointment 💫
This is a photography printed on fabric by Felipe Castelblanco, “Andaki Territory and the invisibles. Churumbelos National Park, Colombia”.
It is part of Felipe’s research project on nature and and environment along the Putumayo river, and the human relationship - the indigenous, as well as legal and illegal, corporations and political forces- entangled in this special area of the Amazons. .
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#wildpalms #art #exhibition #reopening #contemporaryart #colombia #nature #environment #forest #amazon #germany #düsseldorf #Latinamericanart #latinoart #colombianart

Step by step... letting go 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌒🌓🌔🌕 Having weird dreams about massive waves and treasures hiding in plain sight.... @lydiazimmermann #eldorado #counterexpedition

Vatican City, 2019: when the virus was us... vorac

Vatican City, 2019: when the virus was us... voracious tourists

A little virtual tour!! This is from a recent jour

A little virtual tour!! This is from a recent journey across sacred waters and lands at La Cocha lake in the Colombian Andes-Amazon with Quillasinga leaders, my collaborators @lydiazimmermann and @nambirimai. The last is an indigenous media collective that I helped to establish with leaders from the Inga, Awa, Siona, Quillasinga and Kamnëstá communities in 2019. This is a cool group of land-protectors and creatives that you should keep in your radar 🎥📸🎥!! We were traveling across te lake to reach the paramos and pay respect to these vital territories. This part of the journey will be included in an upcoming film!! Thanks again to @coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_colombia, @camilopachon and @kantonbaselstadt for your support!! @javierchindoy @pazmildrey @edithnastacuascanticus

Complex view from a couple weeks ago. This is just

Complex view from a couple weeks ago. This is just before returning to Europe where another kind of complexity is unfolding... Why did I leave the South?

Weird times for having a show but fun times noneth

Weird times for having a show but fun times nonetheless. Thanks to @_wildpalms_ for the amazing effort and all the brave people who came to check out this cool show. These works are part of my ongoing research in the Pan Amazon region and the prints were produced at the @rauschenbergresidency last summer

Té de Bogotá Té de Bogotá is an exhibition co

Té de Bogotá

Té de Bogotá is an exhibition conceived around artistic positions, that deal with the Colombian nature. It explores the use of photography, video and film as a medium to document a complex relation: Colombian nature’s richness and beauty and its unstoppable destruction. Its title “Té De Bogotá“, a magnificent tea discovered during the botanical expedition of the 18th century, but lately forgotten, proposes that this relation with nature has been historically traceable, and subsumed under a term: exploitation // Group Show w/: FERNANDO BARRERA

KAREN PAULINA BISWELL

FELIPE CASTELBLANCO

BEATRIZ EUGENIA DIAZ BEJARANO

SIMON HERNANDEZ feat. SIMON MEJIA (BOMBA ESTEREO)

ERWIN + LORENA KRAUS

JUAN MAYR

curated by Jorge Sanguino @_wildpalms_ @duesseldorfphotoplus

Carnaval y perdón! Lovely celebrations in the lan

Carnaval y perdón! Lovely celebrations in the land of the sacred, secret and powerful ☀️Tabanoc during Bëtsknate before the El Dorado @coincidencia_prohelvetia #prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_colombia #ÑambiRimai #cartography #cartographies_of_the_unseen #felipecastelblanco

Today was an amazing day on top of the Andes, film

Today was an amazing day on top of the Andes, filming in the sacred Paramo, cruising through the sacred La Cocha Lake and working with a great team! Big thanks to all my collaborators @lydiazimmermann @nambirimai and supporting organizations @coincidencia_prohelvetia and @kantonbaselstadt #prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_colombia #ÑambiRimai #cartography #cartographies_of_the_unseen #felipecastelblanco #wuasikamas

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Via @coincidencia_prohelvetia
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A co-production between the Indigenous Media Collective @nambirimai and artist @felipecastel, «Cartographies of the Unseen» unfolds as a counter-expedition across ancestral territories in the southwest of Colombia, between the Andes and the lower Amazon. ⁣With special contributions by artists / filmmakers @camilopachon and @lydiazimmermann
Understanding the territory as a vertical landscape and a system of relations between various scales and altitudes, this project seeks to reveal entanglements across obscured layers of occupation and governance, both above and below the ground.⁣
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Trough a participatory process, Swiss and Colombian artists will co-produce a filmic cartography in an effort towards bio cultural representation.⁣ Image: kite mapping / media workshop with @hannahjmm ⁣
#prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_colombia #ÑambiRimai #cartography #cartographies_of_the_unseen #felipecastelblanco #wuasikamas

The journey starts here! #coincidencia_colombia @c

The journey starts here! #coincidencia_colombia @coincidencia_prohelvetia @nambirimai

Change of mood, harbinger!

Change of mood, harbinger!

A T L A N T I C 💨🌊

A T L A N T I C 💨🌊

My 2020 begins by chasing the sun passing over the

My 2020 begins by chasing the sun passing over the Atlantic in the Irish coast. I feel so ready for a new decade where individual determination, collective action, deep respect and love for this amazing planet we all share become our guiding forces. I look forward to seeing you all at the other side! Happy new year 🎊 🌎 🌍

Friends in Switzerland / Basel: Save the date!! Jo

Friends in Switzerland / Basel: Save the date!! Join us this December 13th - 18:00 hrs for a screening and talk at the #AePLab at @hgk_fhnw Presenting two new documentaries from the Indigenous Media Collective #ÑambiRimai and discussing the participatory / filmmaking process with my collaborator (co-producer) @camilopachon from @ambulantecol. This event is co-hosted by the @embajadacolombiasuiza 🇨🇴

From @ctyridny via @sommerakademiepaulklee - - - -

From @ctyridny via @sommerakademiepaulklee
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If you are in Prague this week, make sure to check out Felipe Castelblanco's (@felipecastel) exhibition "Driftless" at the International Festival of Contemporary Art! "Dirftless" explores notions of nationhood as a form of contemporary confinement, while embracing on the ocean as a public site for artistic interventions. In this artist film, a performer travels across large bodies of water and through several countries, while drifting away in a precarious raft that references makeshift strategies for border crossing. This fictional journey creates a visual narrative, which borrows from migration stories and radical seafaring. This video-performance embraces the ocean as a public site for artistic interventions, using makeshift strategies for border crossing. A fictional journey on a precarious raft creates a visual narrative, which borrows from recent migration stories and radical seafaring.

Credits: Felipe Castelblanco, "Driftless", 2012 - 2018. Film and Three Channel Video Installation.
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#sommerakademiepaulklee #residents2019_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #felipecastelblanco #ctyridny #prague

from not so long ago, some images of the studio an

from not so long ago, some images of the studio and my shy self.. photos by @matteich (performances) and @markpoucherphotography (headshots) at @rauschenbergresidency

Small homage / portraits before the fall / what it

Small homage / portraits before the fall / what it once was.. Some trees in the Amazonian Piedmont (along the Caqueta river) play a huge role in the production of clouds, which help to keep balanced temperatures and humidity levels through out the jungle... #putumayo #carthographiesoftheunseen #artisticresearcher

Nuevamente muy invitad@s Bogotá: Septiembre 18 |

Nuevamente muy invitad@s Bogotá: Septiembre 18 | 7:00PM | teatros de la @fundaciongilbertoalzate 🎥👁Lanzamiento del colectivo de comunicación Ñambi Rimai de los pueblos Inga, Awa, Siona y Quillasinga y premier de dos documentales. Un proyecto en conjunto con el Pueblo Inga, @felipecastel y @ambulantecol

Back into my preferred feeling-thinking zone: the

Back into my preferred feeling-thinking zone: the point where visible and invisible rivers meet (pic: somewhere along the Caqueta River in the Colombian Amazon)

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