Felipe Castelblanco

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Cartographies of the Unseen. November 28th 2020 – January 3rd 2021. Ausstellungsraum Klingental. Basel, Switzerland

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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Random visual thoughts while turning from Sunday p

Random visual thoughts while turning from Sunday painter to Sunday video artist... And mediating on this: "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" ~ T. S. Eliot

Repost via @museodelchopo what an honor to contrib

Repost via @museodelchopo what an honor to contribute to this dialogue with Inga leader Taita Hernando Chindoy @hernandochindoyinga
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𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐞, 𝐩𝐨𝐥í𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚 es un ciclo de conversaciones en las que participan artistas, pensadores, académicos, activistas y políticos de diversas latitudes para dialogar sobre el estado del mundo en la actualidad. Abordarán temas como los efectos colaterales de la pandemia, retos del cambio climático, el auge de la extrema derecha, la persistencia del racismo, la pérdida de legitimidad del capitalismo, los nuevos activismos, entre otros.
Curaduría: #FranciscoCarballo, @lizzie_sells y @pachoparedes

Actividad organizada por el Museo Universitario del Chopo y el Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths de @_londonu del Reino Unido, y en colaboración con el @igeografiaunam y @culturaendirecto.unam.mx

Del 6 de abril al 18 de mayo de 2021, por nuestro canal de #Fblive
martes y jueves, 12:00 h (horario Ciudad de México)

#ritasegato #geobrujas #paulbpreciado #hansulrichobrist #franciamárquez #greilmarcus #maríahassabi #waltermignolo #adrianalara #felipecastelblanco #hernandochindoy #juancarlosmonedero #markdery #francescobifoberardi #oisinmonaghan #mauriciomontiel #naiefyehya #julieannboudreau #michelangelomiccolis #mauriciodimant #andreaspetrossiants #mariagalindo #ikiyospiña #cristobaladam #tinosehgal

#CulturaUNAMenCasa #ChopoenCasa

Our exhibition “Cartographies of the Unseen” h

Our exhibition “Cartographies of the Unseen” has been extended until March 28th. Exciting to be part of the slow but much needed reactivation of the cultural sector in Basel with @ausstellungsraum_klingental and @summe_basel. The gallery is Open Wed to Friday 15-18 hrs and Saturday to Sunday 13 - 18 hrs. A project with @lydiazimmermann and contributions from @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @camilopachon. A project supported by @prohelvetia_southamerica and as part of #ecam at @hgk_fhnw

Throwback, UK 2015. Leaving this for meditative co

Throwback, UK 2015. Leaving this for meditative contemplation! A lovely sunset and a lost moment, from which I made “West of the Sun” a silent film for my Starr Fellow show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London... good times 👀!! @patricemkeenan #royalacademyofart

Exciting invitation and new challenge conceived by

Exciting invitation and new challenge conceived by @iam_internet
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The Billion Seconds Institute is a lifelong learning initiative to organise a network of specialists, advisors and communities of practice to reimagine the ways we understand and shape the mental, social and environmental impacts of the digital economy.

Our aim is to help you expand and activate holistic ways of thinking for today, tomorrow and the next billion seconds.

On urban moons and other astros.. #planetaryurbani

On urban moons and other astros.. #planetaryurbanization #wanderer #cityscape

Some of those views made impossible in 2020: “Tr

Some of those views made impossible in 2020: “Transatlantic Sunsets”... pics from an unplanned trip I embarked on weeks ago to go see/support family living at the other side of the Atlantic... if anyone feels like giving, I’ll be matching the amount raised to support reforestation programs. This is a little help to balance out the CO2 footprint an image like this carries within.

While societies were put in pause, the world kept

While societies were put in pause, the world kept moving... these corocoras are these amazing birds one finds in colombian plains of Meta.

Thanks @ninasarnelle for sharing this! - - - - -

Thanks @ninasarnelle for sharing this!
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Rio Arriba (Upriver): Images from a breathtaking film + ambitious community project led by my dear friend @felipecastel, available online (Link in bio) // devastating to learn that several of the landscapes in the film have recently been consumed by intentional fires (the 3rd image headline)

Today Artist talk (ECT 7PM / EST 1PM) from @ausste

Today Artist talk (ECT 7PM / EST 1PM) from @ausstellungsraum_klingental streaming also on Facebook Live. Link in bio

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Artist Talk

Donnerstag, 10.12.2020, 19:00 Uhr

mit Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann reden über CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE UNSEEN

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation ist die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. Anmeldung unter info@ausstellungsraum.ch. Das Gespräch wird ebenfalls über Facebook und Zoom gestreamt.

Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87854013688
Meeting ID: 878 5401 3688
Login ab 18:50 Uhr

#kunstbasel #artinbasel
#artfilm #regionale21 #regionale
#wuasikamas #felipecastelblanco #coincidencia_prohelvetia #ambulantecol #mincultura
@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @camilopachon @regionale_org

🖤 These are pictures of our most recent show wi

🖤 These are pictures of our most recent show with @lydiazimmermann and @nambi_rimai_comunicacion with @camilopachon. On view until Jan 3rd at @ausstellungsraum_klingental in Basel as part of @regionale_org With support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia and @kunstkreditbaselstad the show feels like a big accomplishment but Still, we can’t indulge in passive contemplation or the joy of having completed a huge collaborative project. Instead, I have a heavy heart after finding out that while we hosted an opening far from the territory, aimed at raising awareness and creating inter-regional networks, the very same locations of our new film (sacred paramos in the Quillacinga Territory up in the Andean-Amazon region) have been consumed by a huge fire... This show has become a homage to a lost ecosystem, to an endangered bio cultural territory, to a gorgeous landscape that in no time became yet, another victim of human stupidity and extractivism. The Andean Paramos (wetlands) is where sacred plants called frailejones, day and night turn air into water and water into major rivers that flow across the Amazon... these essential plants grow less than a centimeter every year and in this place, some reached more than 2mts (meaning older than 200 years). They were there before photography was invented, before we could preserve an image of something instead of preserving the real thing... today I feel sad, cynical, powerless but fire up to continue an important process we initiated in 2019 with local youth leaders from five indigenous nations in order establish the first Pan-Amazon Media Collective in the region in order to amplify the quiet cry of a territory that has been suffering for so so long.

Our show is opening tomorrow at @ausstellungsraum_

Our show is opening tomorrow at @ausstellungsraum_klingental in Basel. this might be a very strange time but it is also the right time!
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CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE UNSEEN - Eine Videoinstallation von und mit Felipe Castelblanco, Camilo Pachón, Lydia Zimmermann, Ñambi Rimai Collective
(29.11.2020 - 03.01.2021)

Felipe Castelblanco ist am REGIONALE-ERÖFFNUNGSTAG am 28. November 2020 anwesend.
Unsere Türen sind von 11 - 20 Uhr geöffnet.

Im Rahmen der @regionale_org

#kunstbasel #artinbasel
#artfilm #regionale21 #regionale
#wuasikamas #felipecastelblanco #coincidencia_prohelvetia #ambulantecol #mincultura
@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @camilopachon

From @wildpalms_store and @_wildpalms_ - - - - -

From @wildpalms_store and @_wildpalms_
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New selection up ✨

This time: focus on Felipe Castelblanco’s encounter with nature and the planet captured through his photography.

@felipecastel

You will find photographies and a super special artist book follows with a photographic project (which will be added tomorrow).

Check link in bio to see the works 💫

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#art #contemporaryart #onlinestore #artonline #wildpalms #wildpalmsamericana #gallery #felipecastelblanco #photography #colombia #ny #latinamericanart #colombianartist

It sounds so so nice!! Even in the mothership..🎥🚀🌎🌨🔥🌎 @lydiazimmermann and I have been working for months on a wonderful film taking place between the Colombian Andean-Amazon and the Atlantic coast with @nambi_rimai_comunicacion @azulgato and @ernestocobaantequera with support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia.

Voto a voto me alboroto... America, just remember:

Voto a voto me alboroto... America, just remember: no matter what, shit ain’t right so the fight for justice must go on... Independent from today’s results, there are many (MANY) people in the United States of Amnesia (Aka USA 🇺🇸) whose voices don’t count cuz they are systematically denied the right to participate in civil society.... thinking about my #dacadreamers #jornaleros and may many more out there without political voice or representation. Pic: 2016, Series: Norte Es Sur by @felipecastel

Upcoming show/screening @lacapsula.zh of my film e

Upcoming show/screening @lacapsula.zh of my film essay “Rio Arriba” made with support from @coincidencia_prohelvetia @kantonbaselstadt and @hgk_fhnw
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From tomorrow until November 4th! Video art window screening at Stauffacherstrasse 119, visible from the street.
Thursday, Oct 29, starting at 17:30 hs.
This program aims to display some of the ways how contemporary artists have worked around the topics of conflict, memory, and cultural heritage, contesting the official narratives. These artworks operate as devices for activating multiple and diverse memories –and not as a replacement for the single official narrative–, proposing entangled transversal links to the events recalled. The artists presented in this video-art window screening program also place history and its political conflicts –unresolved, only silenced– back in the center, bringing the past to the present in a sort of non-linear conception of time as open, multiple and with the possibility of being completed, redefined and, therefore, linked to the political. Arts have become critical sites for alternative social imaginations.
With works by: Felipe Castelblanco, @lacaycedo , @cocofusco and Guillermo-Gomez Pena, Adela Jušić, Yoshua Okón, María Ordóñez, Daniela Ortiz and Sarah Vanagt

Via @falling_walls - - - - - - @felipecastel's art

Via @falling_walls
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@felipecastel's art provokes people and communities to re-connect with each other – and with the space they inhabit. His participatory research is touching subjects like #migration, #climateChange, cultural erasure, territorial rights and #justice. The ultimate goal is biocultural peace-building through knowledge exchange, dialogue and inter-existence.

Felipe Castel is a finalist for the #Science #Breakthroughs of the Year in his category #ScienceInTheArts. Register and join the #WorldScienceSummit for free

https://falling-walls.com/remote2020/event-registration/
Link in Bio

@hgk_fhnw @nambi_rimai_comunicacio
#hgk_fhnw #peacebuilding #felipecastelblanco #pan-amazon #putumayo @parasite_school

From the show celebrating he 10th anniversary of @

From the show celebrating he 10th anniversary of @cat.cologne during the recent Cologne - Düsseldorf Gallery Weekend. On view until September 27th.
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view from the exhibition #14:

"Cartographies of the Unseen" is an ongoing artistic research project by Felipe Castelblanco. Part of this project and installation is "Rio Arriba [Upriver]:
A Cinematic Cartography Through a Vertical Landscape".

Up-River is an experimental film developed after a journey upstream the Putumayo River in the southwest of Colombia. This journey becomes a filmic map of the territory from various altitudes, which then reveal a complex eco-social landscape extending through the jungle and all the way to the high Andean mountains. In these regions, indigenous philosophies, trees, soils, clouds, temperature, light and shadow reveal new aesthetics, agency and forms of bio-cultural resistance.

The Putumayo, Cauca and Nariño states in the south west of Colombia are contested and extremely rich territories. For the last 400 years (or more) these regions have embodied dispossession, cultural extermination, colonialism, drug wars and lately natural devastation due to resource-extracting interests. These regions are a ‘residual spaces’ so rich that it gives birth to the Amazon ecosystem. Also, its endangered history and native cultures are the key to a portal where parallel epistemologies of space, time, environmental justice, bio-cultural models exist.

#processexhibition #tenyearsanniversary @cat.cologne @felipecastel

@marianautomatic and @patricemkeenan in sync for o

@marianautomatic and @patricemkeenan in sync for our stand at @ineverreadartbookfairbasel

Once more, sharing the logics of the The Para-Site

Once more, sharing the logics of the The Para-Site School at @ineverreadartbookfairbasel until September 20th. Stop by if you’re around! More: @parasite_school

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