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Making its round! What an honor to contribute a pi

Making its round! What an honor to contribute a piece for this book from @sternbergpress_official Amazonia
Anthology as Cosmology

Edited by Kateryna Botanova, Quinn Latimer

This book is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and present forms of resistance. In all their various lines (and circles) of ecological and epistemological thought, the artists, elders, writers, theorists, shamans, curators, poets, and activists whose ideas, images, and struggles compose this book, are concerned with Amazonia as both a place and a point of view. It inquires into decolonial feminisms and Indigenous temporalities, externalized memory and erasure, sacred plants in the shadow of pandemic corporate-state extractivism and systemic violence, the activist possibilities of the mythic imagination, and the common visual matrices of the Amazonian universe. The book also weighs the Western imaginary of the Amazon, both its colonial roots in racial capitalism and its corporate, technological, paternalistic present. Centered, however, is Amazonia itself, in all its many and numinous worlds and languages—visual, oral, botanical, ancestral, cosmological—by which it becomes narrated, passed on, and then narrated again.

Design by @buster0friendly

Contributions by @ql_ql_ql_ql, @katya_botanova, Chonon Bensho, @mritacarelli, Enrique Casanto, @felipecastel, @lacaycedo, Taita Hernando Chindoy, Smith Churay, Víctor Churay, Tiffany Higgins, Márcia Wayna Kambeba, knowbotiq, Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, @_ailtonkrenak, Gredna Landolt, Nereyda López, @tupinamba.renata, Maurício Meirelles, Gerardo Petsaín, Aníbal Quijano, @mayaquilolo, @djamilaribeiro1, Abel Rodríguez (Mogaje Guihu), @pamelaememrosenkranz, María Belén Saéz de Ibarra, Proyecto Cuenco de Cera (Bárbara Santos, Reynel Ortega, and Stephen Hugh-Jones), Shoyan Shëca (Roldán Pinedo), @pauloxtavares, @daiaratukano, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Santiago Yahuarcani, @amaaiac, Claudia Andujar, @christianbendayan, Denilson Baniwa and others

https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/amazonia/

I never thought I would have a book of my own as a

I never thought I would have a book of my own as a key source for new research I’ll be embarking on... As always, I am too late to share things here: I became a *Doctor last year after finishing my *PhD (without many bruises) at @hgk_fhnw and @kunstunilinz Soon, I’ll reconnect with the region thanks to @studio_verde_air to delve into how the forest self regulates and cooperates with humans in remediation measures, despite years of gold mining and abuse. Exciting opportunity supported by @amazonaid @aceerfoundation @caminoverdetambopata @cinciamdd

…mid summer 2022…

…mid summer 2022…

On the road with our new research project hosted a

On the road with our new research project hosted at @institutkunst Plants_Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022–2025) is a research project of the Institute Art Gender Nature, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF for four years. The project led by Yvonne Volkart asks from the perspective of art whether the recognition of vegetal forms of intelligence might lead to other methods of knowledge generation, coexistence, breeding and ultimately to new, “intelligent” forms of plant and agricultural culture? In addition to Yvonne Volkart, members of the research team include Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, and Dr. Rasa Smite.

The research partners of the project are experts in the discourse of plant intelligence. They are responsible for advising on content, methodology, and interdisciplinary discussion. The implementation of curatorial projects will be developed and realized with the cooperation partners. Partners in Switzerland are Monika Messmer (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL Frick), Ines Goldbach (Kunsthaus Baselland) and Sabine Himmelsbach (HeK, Basel). International partners include Indigenous Territorial Entity Atun Wasi Iuiai-AWAI of the Inga Nation, Ursula Damm (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam), Katja Tielbörger (University Tübingen), Heraldo Vallejo (FUNDACION TIERRA DE SELVA y la comunidad NODO DE PENSAMIENTO ANDINOAMAZONICO, MUNICIPIO DE MOCOA), Marcos Ezequiel Filardi (Museo del Hambre, Buenos Aires), Kathrin Meyer (Museum Sinclair-Haus Bad Homburg) and Raitis Smits (Rixc, Riga). More info via link in bio.
📷 Plants-being-plants. Coca plantation at the limits of the Churumbleos National Park, overlapping an Inga reserve in Lower Cauca, Colombia, 2019, photo: Felipe Castelblanco

#plantsintelligence #learninglikeaplant #yvonnevolkart @felipecastel @julia_mensch_ @rasasmite @swissnationalsciencefoundation @the_chus_martinez @hgk_fhnw

Speaking this Thursday 30.06 at @thephotographersg

Speaking this Thursday 30.06 at @thephotographersgallery in London. Great conference on imaging and the vertical gaze!
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Join us for the Levels of Life: Photography, Imaging and the Vertical Perspective conference, organised by @saraok and @ottoby.projects. ⁠
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Over 3 days, many incredible scholars and artists working within a variety of disciplines will gather to explore how images made on the vertical axis are encountered, interpreted, decoded, created and utilised. They will also explore how these images have, and could, change the world.⁠
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The conference and exhibition will move to the London College of Communications on July 1 & 2, with the conference available to watch online on all 3 days.⁠
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Book tickets now, link in bio. ⁠
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When the French photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, put his two passions — hot air ballooning and photography — together in the 1850s, the first aerial picture of the earth came into view. Since then, the perpetual quest to reach further heights and greater distances has fuelled the human imagination and generated architectural, aeronautical and optical innovations that have radically altered human perception.⁠
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160 years on and the aerial view is ubiquitous. Photography has expanded so that moving and still images from above are created by a wide range of increasingly autonomous machines, and many of our actions on the surface of the earth are controlled by, and intentionally designed to be seen from, this perspective. At the same time, the ability to look further down the vertical axis, to microscopic levels, has been extended through developments in areas such as microscopy and spectrometry.⁠
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@thephotographersgallery @lcclondon @lcclondonphoto⁠
@lcc_ma_photography @alexander.walmsley @sasha_intheair⁠
@lucelebart @felipecastel @sheungyiuphoto @davidcampany⁠
@kate_fahey @catherine_griffiths @perkigeo @melaniekatking⁠
@lizorton @antigonimemou @mirandapennell @_davidbirkin⁠
@max.houghton8 @hebayamin @phoebechayes @maxcolson⁠
@lucylevene @bennettalison @caralimccall @alikibraine @annalisa.sonzogni @katrin_korfmann @willadamsart⁠
@stusontierphoto @nathanielwhitephoto @zoehatzi⁠
@scanlab_projects⁠

Today's studio companions... Making/thinking with

Today's studio companions...
Making/thinking with @schroomking

About two years ago, we witnessed the meeting of t

About two years ago, we witnessed the meeting of two forces in Colombia’s Putumayo. Two logics and ways of being-thinking-crafting earth: stubborn human-made landscapes and resilient nature. This year, the former has gained a few inches. The construction of this stubborn road (the Mocoa-Pasto Variante across the Amazon foothills) has resumed. In the big picture this is momentarily and unilateral progress as we, the people of the world, are only temporary occupants of this earth vessel. 🌎🍃Memories from a research trip with with @ayenan2021 @lydiazimmermann and @nambi_rimai_comunicacion #earthday2022 #nownessearthday #artisticresearch #ayënan #putumayo

Monday Mood in the studio. 📢

Monday Mood in the studio. 📢

Via @edgelands.institute
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Felipe Castelblanco’s piece for Common Grounds was the art of co-creation. Over his 3 week residency, the Colombian artist worked with a group of 10 diverse stakeholders - some migrants, some community leaders, and some public officials who work in Medellín’s Department of Security. Co-led by music artist and rapper @traficomc, the group co-wrote and performed a song on their differing views of security in Medellín. The song was performed live on the exhibit’s opening day, and you can watch the music video in the exhibition hall. Common Grounds is a project curated by @matzaproduction.

La obra desarrollada por @felipecastel para Common Grounds consistió en una pieza de co-creación con actores sociales de la ciudad de Medelllín. Durante su residencia de 3 semanas, el artista colombiano trabajó con un grupo de 10 personas con intereses y proveniensias diversas: algunos migrantes, otros líderes comunitarios y algunos otros funcionarios públicos que trabajan en el Departamento de Seguridad de Medellín. Co-construyendo con el artista y rapero @traficomc, el grupo co-escribió e interpretó una canción que aborda sus diferentes puntos de vista sobre la seguridad en Medellín. Aunque la canción se interpretó en vivo el día de la inauguración de la exhibición, puedes ver el video en la sala de exhibición. Terrenos Comunes es un proyecto curado por @matzaproduction.

📹 @juans.escobar

This is the bookshelf that one finds in Putumayo.

This is the bookshelf that one finds in Putumayo. Plenty of pages to learn from! With @patricemkeenan

“La Sombra en la Oscuridad se Pierde” es una n

“La Sombra en la Oscuridad se Pierde” es una nueva pieza producto de un proceso participativo y de creación con @traficomc jóvenes y la increíble Rosa Adela! Abierta hasta Marzo 20 en Bodega Comfama, Medellín. Pronto compartimos el vídeo! @matzaproduction @edgelands.institute

OPENING OF THE COMMON GROUNDS exhibition on Thurs

OPENING OF THE COMMON GROUNDS exhibition on Thursday February 17 at 5 pm in Bodega Comfama, Medellin. A MATZA EDGELANDS project with @sandrine_pelletier @jsemoroz @piniva @felipecastel @tatyana_zambrano_ @angelicateuta @ogutumuraya @onyismartin @alejoduque @sarangof and more. A project by @severinguelpa and @anja.wydenguelpa with the support of @matzaproduction @edgelands.institute @elmamm @comfama fama @prohelvetia @elperpetuosocorro

Check out this piece I contributed to @hkw_berlin

Check out this piece I contributed to @hkw_berlin for the newly launched Anthropocene Curriculum.
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What are the limits of communication in the Anthropocene and where does it bring about change?

Anthropocene Curriculum Course 3 follows the fallacies and imponderables of the now and devises new practices for communicating in uncertain terrain.

For #Communicating, researcher-educator Nishant Shah @latelyontime and artist-organizer @felipecastel discuss the opportunities of failed knowledge transfer. How, they ask, can communication enact the practice of its promise? And from the basis that how we communicate history has political and ethical importance, #TheMontPelerinRewrite collective designs models for intervening in one-dimensional historical narratives. Their pathway calls into question the accepted narratives that define the world as we know it, proposing alternative models of coexistence and drawing attention to how some imaginaries are empowered and elevated, while others are dismissed as naive or irrational fantasies.

🔗 Dive into the courses and find more information on: anthropocene-curriculum.org/courses

Ps: If you were wondering how to interact with the new courses format on the research platform, find detailed explanations on the account of the Anthropocene Curriculum @anthrocur
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Images:
1. Still from Rio Arriba [Upriver] (2020). By Felipe Castelblanco
2. First television image of Earth from space. Taken from TIROS-1, April 1, 1960. Image courtesy NASA, via Wikimedia Commons
3. Photo by Mont Pelerin Re-Write
4. Anthropocene Curriculum Course 3 GIF

#HKW #HausDerKulturenDerWelt #AnthropoceneCurriculum #Communication #Anthropocene #History #Coexistence #Courses #LearningOnline

El Taita Paulino Mojomboy 🖤, un líder, maestro

El Taita Paulino Mojomboy 🖤, un líder, maestro y médico tradicional del pueblo Inga de Colombia nos ha dejado. Gran pérdida y gran legado. En 2019 y junto a @camilopachon apoyamos a @nambi_rimai_comunicacion para crear un documental dedicado al Taita. Hoy ya no es solo un documental sino una cápsula del tiempo. Es el retrato de un líder y su visión de un mundo donde el derecho de los pueblos originarios a sus saberes y formas de ver/pensar el mundo se restituyan. Buen viaje Taita... 🐆 . Link al documental IACHACHIDUR en bio.

This fun, hectic and eventful year is ending with

This fun, hectic and eventful year is ending with the lovely show curated by Ines Golbach titled “Inside the Amazon” which includes my film Rio Arriba [Upriver] at @kunsthausbaselland. Next stop: Athens 🇬🇷 in April 2022

Some pictures of my work #Pathfinding at @marres_m

Some pictures of my work #Pathfinding at @marres_maastricht as part of the show #History's_Footnotes, curated by the amazing @khanyi007. Open until November 28th, 2021 (in Maastricht, NL)

Imperdible / hard to miss 🧷 (if in Basel). On 0

Imperdible / hard to miss 🧷 (if in Basel). On 03.11.21 I’ll be sharing some thoughts and experiences from the path we’ve walked with @ayenan2021 and Taita Hernando Chindoy hosted by @institutkunst
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Via @the_chus_martinez “On the 3rd, 4th and 5th of November we have our annual symposium. This time reflecting on art practices and living conditions of indigenous communities and also on how to address difference differently. All guests and speakers are EXTRAORDINARY, please join, it will be streamed. We did it in collaboration with Culturescapes @culturescapes.ch Katya Botanova And Quinn Latimer and myself will moderate”. Stream available, reader edited by @ql_ql_ql_ql and @katya_botanova available @sternbergpress

Thursday, 21 October 2021, 6:30 p.m. at Helmhaus

Thursday, 21 October 2021,
6:30 p.m. at Helmhaus Zürich —— Artist talk with @lydiazimmermann @ayenan2021 and Taita Hernando Chindoy at @helmhaus_zuerich —- «A WEB OF LIFE»—- as part of our current show “territorios de Agua” within the exhibition WOHIN (September 24 - November 14th)

«Territory, for us, is not just land. It is a living body, a web of life: origin, energy, experience and knowledge», explains Hernando Chindoy, representative of the Inga peoples of Colombia. A discussion about their collaborative efforts and project «Territorios de Agua» with Hernando Chindoy, Ayenan Quinchoa, Felipe Castelblanco and Lydia Zimmermann (in English, Spanish and German).

@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann
#wohin #künstlerischeinvestigationen #felipecastelblanco #lydiazimmermann #nambirimaicollective

Via @valentijn_byvanck - - - - Last week we opene

Via @valentijn_byvanck
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Last week we opened History’s Footnote: on Love and Freedom. Composed by the South-African curator Khanyisile Mbongwa, this group exhibition connects the stories of film makers, visual artists, singers and poets about decolonization, lost languages, collective protest, and forgotten history. A central theme in the exhibition is the quest for love and freedom to which history serves as a footnote. A beautiful exhibition that offers insight into the grief that comes with dispossession and the spirituality that, threatened by the same, also provides the only possible cure for all of us.

With (part 1 of 2)
1. Noncedo Gxekwa
2. Lungiswa Gqunta
3. Felipe Castelblanco
4. Nicholas Galanin
5. Hymn_self

Photos: Gert Jan van Rooij

#historysfootnote @khanyi007 @marres_maastricht

@iam_internet - - - - - - Snapshots from the first

@iam_internet
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Snapshots from the first of hopefully many more public conversations on intercitizenships! Massive thanks to Branch Magazine and @arselectronica for this opportunity and to @felipecastel @elizatookthis and Pia Mancini for sharing this space-time.

Full video will be available in a few months and the conversation will expand and continue on IAM Weekend #iamw21

#arselectronica #arselectronica21

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Past

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

Recent Shows:

Exhibition: TÃ© de Bogota at Wild-Palms Gallery, DÃ¼sseldorf. 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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