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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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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

In memory of a “wandering / drifting” past sel

In memory of a “wandering / drifting” past self 🌊 link in bio... via @sommerakademiepaulklee
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In the latest issue of the HKB-newspaper, our resident Felipe Castelblanco speaks about growing up in Bogotá, travelling as a creative act, transpiring trees and the symbolism of Bernese landmarks!

Link in bio. #hkbzeitung #felipecastelblanco #residents2019_20 #sommerakademiepaulklee #statecraft #bundeshaus #reitschule #travel

Pics from a busy birthday boy turning 35, opening

Pics from a busy birthday boy turning 35, opening a show during the DC weekend, celebrating the 10 year anniversary of @cat.cologne, the reopening of public life and lots of love. Thanks everyone for the nice messages and bday wishes!! Thank you @patricemkeenan for joining me in this nice trip from Lofoten to Cologne, via Basel with a little detouring in St. Petersburg ;-) thanks @josephpopper for your/my bday shirt!!

Another nice stop for the journey of my piece #Dri

Another nice stop for the journey of my piece #Driftless (2012-2019). Now that part of the @works_on_water Triennial in NYC has been moved online you can tune in from anywhere and watch artists films created in/on/with water. Organized by: @nancy9000 // link in bio for info and RSVP
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Works on Water is pleased to present ALL THESE INCREDIBLE WORKS starting FRIDAY!! Thanks to covid, we turned a gallery show into 🌊6 LIVE SCREENINGS 🐬 as part of our 20/21 #wowtriennial. Join us in viewing these works from 🌏🌍🌎. Ask screenings are free but RSVP IS REQUIRED. Follow link in bio!

Back into the Swiss Tropic... Corona Plants, secre

Back into the Swiss Tropic... Corona Plants, secret plant-societies and imaginary discoveries.

Join us Today - 6:00PM CET Via @sommerakademiepaul

Join us Today - 6:00PM CET Via @sommerakademiepaulklee
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We are excited to announce our second online event this summer: On August 5 at 6.p.m. CET, residents of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee will engage (together with our artistic director Tirdad Zolghadr) in a remote viewing experiment, testing the potentials of online formats which are bound to play a growing role in the way we work and engage with one another in the near future. On account of momentary travel restrictions, we as a Sommerakademie can no longer pursue our conversations by the banks of the Aare River. But we can take advantage of our geographic disparity in other ways, wherever we happen to be stranded during the ongoing pandemic.

Taking up to 15 minutes each – either live on location, or by way of recent footage – residents address a physical space within their immediate material surroundings that speaks to the ongoing discussion at the Sommerakademie: What role do national boundaries still play? How do international debt economies and new legal instruments define the rapport between Contemporary Art and statecraft more recently? How can one create the conditions of production that might make a sustained discussion possible - across space as well as time? From divestment to institution building to propaganda: Which strategic means have been successfully deployed by artists and curators, and which ones continue to make strategic, aesthetic and political sense today?

The Zoom link will be published on our website before the event (link in bio). We hope to see you online!
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#sommerakademiepaulklee #residents2019_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #switzerland #bern @felipecastel @oliviaabaecherli @fadwa_naamna @aartisunder @contemporary.institute @two_evils #airitriisberg #dorotheekreutzfeldt #fadwanaamna #aartisunder #felipecastelblanco #tracyjeannerosenthal #oliviaabächerli #joãoenxutoericalove

Don’t even ask me how 📸 ... all I know is tha

Don’t even ask me how 📸 ... all I know is that it takes about 10mts of snow fall to make a layer of 0,39 inches of glacier. It takes thousands of years, many pandemics and a bunch of empires for a glacier like this to form.. thanks @davidzehnder for introducing us to his amazing Valais region!

Düsseldorf-Cologne or Planetary folks come by or

Düsseldorf-Cologne or Planetary folks come by or tune in via @_wildpalms_ for this talk and screening: Monday, 7/27/2020, 7:30pm CET // 1:30pm EST
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We warmly invite you to a dialogue w/ @felipecastel & Sanguino about Felipe’s work in the Putumayo region, his collaboration w/ @nambi_rimai_comunicacion a Pan Amazon Media Collective, @camilopachon and @lydiazimmermann
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#screening #talk #art #wildpalms #latinamerica #colombia #contemporaryart #latinamricanart #düsseldorf

My quarantine ramble: An interview about my hopes/

My quarantine ramble: An interview about my hopes/fears for the post-pandemic artist by @carolina_martinez_s for @coincidencia_prohelvetia at https://coincidencia.net
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This week, @felipecastel tell us how his work and practices have been affected by the uncertain times we live in. 〰⠀ ⠀
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“I fear that Covid-19 will not be remembered by the freely-moving output of creative and cultural movements, but by the hole that social media will leave behind once their servers need to be erased to make room for yet another world event.” - Felipe Castelblanco. ⠀
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⁣📸⁣⁣ "Nowhere Islands" ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀ ⠀
⁣📸 Portrait ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀
📸 Still from Driftless ©️ Felipe Castelblanco ⠀ ⠀
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⁣#prohelvetia #coincidencia_prohelvetia #coincidencia_switzerland ⁣ #cartographiesoftheunseen #COVID19 #interview #felipecastelblanco #FC #carolinamartinez.

Via @sommerakademiepaulklee We are excited to anno

Via @sommerakademiepaulklee We are excited to announce one of our two public online events this Summer! Join us next Wednesday, 22 July at 5 p.m. CET for an online lecture by Will Stronge, followed by Q&A and conversation. The Zoom-Link will be published on our website (link in bio) before the event.
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The world of work is in transition. Demographic and technological transformations, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, are being met with new policy proposals, like a shorter working week or a Universal Basic Income. In particular the crisis of work and posited responses point to a break-down of the traditional divisions between leisure and work, employed and unemployed, worker and pensioner. They also underline the particular tensions and conflicts around freedom and inequality that capitalist societies produce. Will Stronge will present the questions that the future of work poses to our habitual ways of being and thinking and will outline what strategies, demands and proposals should be put to the fore.
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Will Stronge is co-director of Autonomy, an independent think tank focusing on issues relating to the future of work. He is the co-author, with Helen Hester, of the forthcoming primer "Post-Work: what it is, why it matters and how we get there" (Bloomsbury, 2021).
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#sommerakademiepaulklee #residents2019_20 #statecraft #tirdadzolghadr #willstronge #autonomy #switzerland #bern

The months go by and I’m still thinking about th

The months go by and I’m still thinking about this image/place... It is one of the most surreal structures we encountered while filming in the Colombian Pan Amazon region with @lydiazimmermann and @nambi_rimai_comunicacion

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

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