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Via @videonale Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimme

Via @videonale Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann
AYÊNAN: Territorios de Agua (AYÊNAN: Water Territories)

(2022)

“Ayênan” means the initial particle of any kind of matter and the smallest space in between things that exist in the universe from which life begins.”

“AYÊNAN: Territorios de Agua (AYÊNAN: Water Territories)” by Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann will be part of the VIDEONALE.19 exhibition and festival program.
Find out more about their work on their artist page at v19.videonale.org/en

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" "Ayênan" bedeutet das Anfangspartikel jeder Art von Materie und der kleinste Raum zwischen den Dingen, die im Universum existieren, aus dem das Leben entsteht."

“AYÊNAN: Territorios de Agua (AYÊNAN: Water Territories)" von Felipe Castelblanco & Lydia Zimmermann ist Teil des Ausstellungs- und Festivalprogramms der VIDEONALE.19.
Mehr über ihre Arbeit findest du auf ihrer Künstler:innenseite unter v19.videonale.org

@felipecastel @lydiazimmermann

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Friends and family, we’re very happy to share a

Friends and family, we’re very happy to share a massive life update: our son Luciano Ibá was born on January 6th in Basel and with the first full moon of the year // 🇨🇴 Amigues, familia estamos felices de compartir la noticia. Nuestro hijo Luciano Ibá nació el 6 de Enero en Basel y con la primera luna llena del año. Total gratitude to my partner @patricemkeenan

Throwback “Costa Pacífica, Colombia” one of m

Throwback “Costa Pacífica, Colombia” one of many stops in a fantastic lifetime journey.. ❤️🫣@patricemkeenan

VOLUME Up 🔊🔝🪩 Lanzamiento Navideño! Este

VOLUME Up 🔊🔝🪩 Lanzamiento Navideño! Este es un monumento sonoro a Medellín. Es un acto de consenso y una canción compuesta entre muchas/muchos colaboradores como parte de una obra de arte que produje en Medellín en 2022 comisionada por @matzaproduction // Not a Christmas Song but Still a Christmas Release. This artwork takes the form of a song written by many wonderful people in Medellín. It was possible thanks to the invitation of @edgelands.institute and MATZA to develo a site-specific project in Medellin earlier this year. There, I met the fantastic composer and singer @traficomc producer @flcolombia and community leader @jheny_duque with whom we gave beats and shape to this project!!🪩#matzaedgelands @majogomezvillegas #bodegacomfama @institutkunst @prohelvetia_southamerica

Around this time last year, I had the honor to be

Around this time last year, I had the honor to be in the jury for the show Rundgang 50 Hertz 2022 at @hamburger_bahnhof in Berlin, featuring some of Germany’s most intriguing young artists concluding their studies. Among them @omgirlwtf @_stephjoyce and @clara_alisch I finally got a copy of the catalog, which includes thoughtful and provoking artworks + a new essay I wrote on artistic research and this nice picture of my work in the cover. Link to the essay in bio

VENTA (“SALE”) the Amazon Rainforest, 2022

VENTA (“SALE”)
the Amazon Rainforest, 2022

What is not owned cannot be sold.

The Amazon forest is the lungs of the world, and home to diverse flora, fauna, and human communities. And yet governments and companies continue to destroy its resources in the name of profit.

Through collective activism that arose during the Beyond Conservation 2022 Artist residency in the Tambopata National Reserve, Peru, the artists are challenging the authorities’ sense of ownership over the forest. They also demand that the leaders at COP27 take definitive action to protect the forests of the world.

They used a typical banner, widely used in Latin American cities to signal the sale of a property, but in a much larger format, approximately 6 meters high. Once positioned in the expanse of the jungle, the banner then appears minuscule.

In this collective installation, with the participation of different artists, forest dwellers, and people from native communities, they turn the message of this common sign on its head: “esta propiedad no está en venta” (this property is not for sale).

Artists:
Chris Tigra (concept)
Felipe Castelblanco (Photo/ Video)
Anja Zachau
Henry Ortiz
Maisie McNeice
Aaron Terry
Pablo Serret de Ena
Alejandro Zevallos
Mauricio Arthuire
Froilan Rodriguez
Enoc Lopez
Emanuel Sanchez
Dyan Francis
Lamber Sanchez Muray
Daria Lipsky

Beyond Conservation 2022 curated by Studio Verde in partnership with Amazon Aid & ACEER Foundation

#cop27 #cop27egypt

The people don’t forget… 🌎🌍🌏world lea

The people don’t forget… 🌎🌍🌏world leaders at #cop27 we’re watching you.

Throwback to my delirious days last April while my

Throwback to my delirious days last April while my immune system was battling the trendy invader… back then, I even managed to make this little artwork for dis/comfort and grounding. These days call for another handshake (or a squeeze) to properly land back and close the gap with the other delirious days I recently experienced. #inmunidad #touch #studiodays #assemblageart

Amazonian plant teachers cared for, cultivated or

Amazonian plant teachers cared for, cultivated or allowed to be and grow at @caminoverdetambopata (Lupuna, Tawari, Sangre de Grado, Sacha Papaya, Coca and Moena) Works on paper made with simple bleach and a pencils as an attempt at noticing how light touches a plant at dusk. Thanks to @theranygonzalei for the science and selection! @studio_verde_air @aceerfoundation @amazonaid @prohelvetia_southamerica #artandscience #sundaypainter

Slowly re-emerging from an incredible time in the

Slowly re-emerging from an incredible time in the Peruvian Amazon where I had the amazing opportunity to smell, touch, listen and explore ways to co-create with the forest. This trip has allowed me to reassess not only my responsibility with nature but my ‘ability to respond’ to what the Amazon so generously teaches us. Thanks to @studio_verde_air for organizing this!

Thank you everyone at @caminoverdetambopata Robin Van Loon, @jandurubu , @mamiferolatino for hosting and sharing the best of the Tambopata. Thanks to the Ese’Eja Indigenous Community for sharing your wisdom and welcoming us into your home. Thanks to @lopez_enoc_16 for teaching me the basics of Shipinglisgh (Shipibo + English) but especially for being an incredible actor, guide and collaborator!

Thank you to all my fellow artists-travelers, scientists, and the brave land-defenders working in Madre de Dios!

Huge thanks to the organizations supporting this trip @prohelvetia / @prohelvetia_southamerica @amazonaid and @aceerfoundation as well as all the partners involved:

@cinciamdd @kawsay_biological_station_peru @natureexplorers.mdd @suzelda_ @aerobotanist
@theranygonzalei
@raquel.condori7 @rutmottoccanchi @ceciliabordaquispe @flormejiamamani @liselot.primatologist
@sernanp
@minamperu
@royriquelmer
@eco.dely, @_wildpalms_ and @institutkunst for hosting this research at @hgk_fhnw

#prohelvetia #artandscience #artistsfortheamazon #peruvianamazon #residencyprograms

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

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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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