Opening: Friday September 8th 6pm
This project involves exploring modes of territorial thinking in the Global South through artistic practices. By blending relational cinema and participatory research, it aims to reveal the landscape as a system of vital relationships, encompassing various layers of occupation and governance above and below the Earth’s surface. The focus is on an indigenous territory in a state of permanent dispute located in the southwest of Colombia, within a critical zone connecting the Andes and the Amazon rainforest. Over the course of centuries, this area has stood at the epicenter of ecological and epistemic violence along a vertical axis that links both visible and hidden spatial elements within the same landscape. Based on the spatial aesthetics of the indigenous communities of the Colombian southwest, notably the Inga, Kamnëstá, Quillacinga and Siona, and through participatory methods, the project aims to foster an inter-epistemic dialogue around notions of territoriality. Its objectives include supporting the coexistence of the indigenous view of the world in the global realms of knowledge and cultural production, and co-producing immersive experiences that recalibrate hegemonic approaches to territorial matters, the landscape and the modes of rootedness that hold us to the planet. The project draws on various mediums, including video, performance, photography, and installation. Through collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous creators, it explores the biocultural relationships along this vertical axis, shedding light on the historical, political, and ecological tensions that vitally link the Amazonian rainforest and the Andes peaks.
The project was made possible through the support and hospitality of AWAI, the Territorial Organization of the Inga People in Colombia.
Image: Cortesía Studio Felipe Castelblanco con Lydia Zimmermann.
