I am very pleased to announce that I have been granted with one of the grants for arts by the Botín Foundation this year. This grant will enable me to develop a project at the river Amazons between Perú, Colombia and Brasil.

Oficial info: 

​"Ocho artistas de cuatro nacionalidades diferentes (cinco españoles, un peruano, un israelí y una portuguesa) serán los beneficiarios de la XXVII edición de las Becas Internacionales de Artes Plásticas de la Fundación Botín. Los nuevos beneficiarios de este programa de ayudas expondrán sus proyectos artísticos en la muestra Itinerarios XXVII, cuya celebración está prevista para el año 2021.

Los creadores seleccionados han sido: Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, Perú, 1975), Gruber Assaf (Jerusalén, Israel, 1980), Lucía Bayón (Madrid, 1994), Alfonso Borragán (Santander, 1983), Seila Fernández Arconada (Santander, 1986), Esther Merinero (Madrid, 1994), Juan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) y Ana Santos (Espinho, Portugal, 1982)".

Disonancia sugerida es una invitación a compartir un proceso de investigación artística planteando narrativas transversales a preguntas y encuentros. Este camino viaja a través del bosque, lo relacional, lo interdisciplinario, el sentido de pertenencia, la noción de lugar, el intercambio y el diálogo de saberes que se entrelazan en un espacio intermedio; un ritual colectivo en el que los participantes serán agentes activos en esta experiencia multisensorial compartida. 

Este evento se enmarca en el proyecto "Colombia BioResilience: Biodiversity resilience and ecosystem services in post-conflict socio-ecological systems in Colombia", colaboración interdisciplinaria entre la Universidad de Bristol y Exeter (Reino Unido) la cual ha permitido a Seila Fernández Arconada generar esta investigación durante su estancia en el proyecto y el Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt (Colombia).
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I am very pleased to announce the opening exhibition of "Antropologia, paisagem, sentidos: pesquisa e arte da/na paisagem" presentation of the work done last year in Picote (Portugal) where I had the honour to share time with Marcelo Moscheta and Lorenzo I. Bordonaro. This exhibition shows some of the work done then which will be presented at Museu da Terra de Miranda at Miranda do Douro (Portugal) on the 13th of June 2019.

Last 17th of May took place the workshop about interdisciplinarity as part of the project BioResilience - Colombia, biodiversity resilience and ecosystem services in post-conflict socio-ecological systems. This workshop was facilitated by Olga Lucia Hernández Manrique leader of Social Sciences department of Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt and Seila Fernández Arconada, artist in residence at the project BioResilience. During the workshop a number of activities took place including talks from local projects by Ana Maria Garrido and Alejandra Osejo and other activities to discuss about interdisciplinarity and resilience among other topics of interest at the project together with the postdocs Mónica Amador, Felipe Franco and Julieth Serrano.
http://sites.exeter.ac.uk/bioresilience/

17th of May 2019, Sede Venado de Oro Instituto Humboldt, Bogotá (Colombia)
Photos taken by Seila Fernández Arconada

9/05/2019, Bogotá (Colombia)

​I am pleased to announce my participation on the project "Colombia BioResilience: Biodiversity resilience and ecosystem services in post-conflict socio-ecological systems in Colombia"; an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from different disciplines from Colombia (Instituto Humboldt) and the UK (University of Bristol and University of Exeter) where I am the artist in residence.

This project includes the investigators: T.R. Feldpausch, D.H. Urrego, N. Millner, T. Pennington, L. Mercado and the project partners: E. Alvarez-Dávila, C.R.Montes-Pulido, J. Richardson, C. Velasquez-Ruiz, D. Armenteras, O.L.Hernández-Manrique.

With this project I will be participating on this project while based at Instituto Humboldt in Bogotá (Colombia) in May, June and July this year as well as participating in scientific expeditions in different sites in Colombia. I look forward to collaborate in this interdisciplinary process aiming to challenge perceptions on collaborative methods and participatory engagement. 

​More information will be uploaded soon. 

​Photos taken at an exploratory research trip in a scientific expedition by Instituto Humboldt.
Photos by Seila Fernández Arconada. Colombia, June 2018 

This workshop took place at the Psychology Faculty of Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Querétaro, México) on the 25th of February 2019. 

"Punto de Reunión: Procesos artísticos puntualizando el aquí y ahora" (Metting point: artistic proceses pointing out the here-now") focused on artistic processes and multidisciplinary approaches inspired by socio-environmental contemporary concerns. From the "meeting points/puntos de reunión" the participants engaged with a number of activities in order to bring their skills and expertise to an "in between" collaborative space. Hands on activities and conceptual discussions led to collective creation in which participants responded to those puntos de reunión as site specific collective artistic responses. 

Thanks to all participants: Adriana, Karen, Jessica, Mariana, Caro, Lizeth, Lupita,
Maria Daniela, Joshua, Pedro, Marcela, Rodrigo y Mariana

Photos of the process taken by Seila Fernández Arconada