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Al hilo de la más bella

18/12/2020

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In these days I am participating in a workshop by La más bella in which I am creating an intervention for the 'rare publication' titled Al hilo de la más bella. La más bella has been creating 'weird' publications since 1993 with all sort of containers and interventions by artists and other professionals. Here you can find more info about their work: 
www.lamasbella.es 
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An image from the process taken by La más Bella. 
Here you can find the results of this workshops: www.lamasbella.es/alhilo/
including my own intervention titled as Nadie quema agua (​NQH20), diálogos íntimos con el agua mientras cotiza en bolsa es una intervención which also can be found in this link to my own website or click on the images. 
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Fotografía y medio ambiente, vínculos entre arte y ciencia.

26/11/2020

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Today I had the real pleasure to be one of the speakers at the panel discussion Fotografía y medio ambiente, vínculos entre arte y ciencia. This conversation took place today together with the Colombian artist Eduardo Soriano, Edwin Gustavo Dussan and Astrid Lili Puerta from SENA Red ambiental and myself in which we focused on the role of photography and art in connection to environment and scientific practices. SENA is the Colombian national system of libraries and this talk is organised by the Biblioteca del Centro Tecnológico de la Amazonía in Caquetá (Colombia). I would like to thank organisers and participants for this immersive and enriching dialogue. What can't be seen on the live youtube/facebook is the many comments and questions taking place which I responded on Google Meet live, thanks a lot for such participation.

This talk took place at SENA youtube and facebook live channel which can also be seen in the following links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/343508836748466
Youtube: https://youtu.be/xFAFKFQzUp8



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Panel discussion, links between photography, art, environment and science.

25/11/2020

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I am pleased to invite you to the panel discussion Fotografía y medio ambiente, vínculos entre arte y ciencia in which I will be participating. This conversation will be taking place tomorrow together with the Colombian artist Eduardo Soriano, Edwin Gustavo Dussan and Astrid Lili Puerta from SENA Red ambiental and myself will be focusing on the role of photography and art in connection to environment and scientific practices. SENA is the Colombian national system of libraries and this talk is organised by the Biblioteca del Centro Tecnológico de la Amazonía in Caquetá (Colombia). 

This talk will take place in their youtube and facebook channel virtually. 
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Creative Engagements with Ecologies of PlaceGeopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies

25/11/2020

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I am glad to announce that the book Creative Engagements with Ecologies of PlaceGeopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies by Mary Modeen and Iain Biggs will be soon published. 

This book includes some of my work, I am pleased to have had the opportunity to discussed about it with one of the authors, Iain Biggs, who has been a great inspiration for my work since I met him at the University of the West of England while he was teaching and I was studying. At that time he was one of the coordinators of PLaCE International based at the UK and I joined their sessions learning about art and place in various forms of artistic engagement, ingredients that inspired and moved forward my praxis.

I would like to invite you to learn more about the work of both authors that can be found extensively online. 

Also if you would like to preorder the book here the link: 
https://www.routledge.com/Creative-Engagements-with-Ecologies-of-Place-Geopoetics-Deep-Mapping-and/Modeen-Biggs/p/book/9780367545758

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Zurciendo el planeta

20/11/2020

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I would like to share this event named "Los árboles hablan" which has been created by the collective Zurciendo el planeta (Dora Napolitano,Liliana Osnaya and Ivone Ortiz) based in Mexico City, this collective has been running some artivist embroidery workshops since lock down in April which I have been following feeling myself part of this international community. The final event was presented virtually but also in the Chapultepec forest in Mexico City and included the contributions made by participants. 

I wanted to be part of it just virtually and I made this symbolic embroidery and the text with it (in spanish). Here my contribution:
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Fronteras,
líneas creadas para delimitar, 
líneas que separan un estado de otro, 
líneas reales aunque imaginadas, 
líneas que dividen la vida natural, 
y la fuerzan a estar fragmentada,
líneas de poder estampadas con sangre.


Esta frase, bordada con delicadeza, es tan actual como histórica, una frase que incluye a seres humanos y otras especies más que humanas, que se adentra en lo íntimo de la naturaleza y sus ciclos vitales, incluyendo el territorio cuerpo-tierra que somos. 

La frase ha sido tomada del libro “La vergüenza de Europa, diarios desde el campo de concentración de Quíos”, un libro de relatos sobre experiencias en este campo de refugiados; un lugar, o más bien un no lugar, de “recibimiento” en Europa para algunas personas que arriesgan su vida y llegan después de haber atravesado el mar buscando un horizonte: un futuro mejor. 

El medioambiente es uno de los promotores de migración. Hay personas que huyen no sólo de la guerra sino buscando sobrevivir a desastres naturales o condiciones medioambientales difíciles. El cambio climático está fomentando y fomentará estos desastres y degradación ambiental, y es por eso que la conciencia y actuación respetuosa en este “campo” es no sólo vital para la vida sino para la naturaleza, la naturaleza que somos. 

Árbol elegido: Haya 
Lugar de instalación: monte Corona (Cantabria, España)
Seila Fernández Arconada


For more information about the event: 
https://zurciendoelplaneta.org/los-arboles-hablan/
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Seminarios sobre decolonialidad, Universidad del País Vasco

27/10/2020

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I have been invited to run two of the workshops as part of the series of talk about decoloniality organised by the research group Arte, Investigación y Feminismos based at the University of the Basque Country. 

The talks are based on my artistic experience and interest plus a profound research made for this series. The first workshop that took place on the 20th of October 2020 was titled Decolonizar la naturaleza, acciones desde el territorio cuerpo-tierra (Decolonise nature, actions from the territory body-earth/soil), the second that took place on the 27th of October was titled Creación artística y diálogo de saberes, decolonizar desde el hacer “sentipensante” (Artistic creation and dialogue of knowledge, decolonise from the doing "sentipensante").

Both took place at Salón de Grados, Facultad de Bellas Artes, University of the Basque Country. 
Here some images of those gatherings which had both theory and practice. 
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Materials for the sessions: 

Decolonizar la naturaleza, acciones desde el territorio cuerpo-tierra

​-Guardiana de los Ríos, documental producido por Radio Progreso y Madre Tierra Producciones, dirigido por la periodista y realizadora Jennifer Ávila. Trata sobre el legado de la lucha realizada por la líder indígena y ambientalista Berta Caceres.
- Vandana Shiva y Covid 19, un video producido por Telesur. Trata sobre aspectos vinculados a la soberanía alimentaria y otros efectos fomentados por el covid en la sociedad actual.
- Video "Mapa de voces I" editado para esta sesión: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GHAZZCx_yrE9BdN3fd9_0axShlfxMrKP

Creación artística y diálogo de saberes, decolonizar desde el hacer “sentipensante” 

-Extracto del libro Autonomía y diseño de Arturo Escobar, capítulo " Diseño para las transiciones". 

- Video "Mapa de voces II" editado para esta sesión:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sNHdHxb2Adq41KQfyQQzyYyzvh_Qm1Vt
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Resiliencia artística, workshop #Memorarte Fest

25/10/2020

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Resiliencia artística, herramientas creativas en busca de una transformación social.
Taller dirigido por Seila Fernández Arconada.

El arte y la resiliencia se entretejen en el acto creativo. La práctica artística es una práctica resiliente en sí misma y por tanto puede ofrecer herramientas y preguntas en procesos para la transformación social. Es así que propongo una actividad que utilizando el medio virtual de una forma experimental y “experiencial” ofrezca un entorno de participación activa, inclusiva y comprometida, y así generar una reflexión conjunta por medio de la creación.

Esta invitación por tanto, pretende comenzar un camino conjunto viajando entre el pensamiento crítico y la sensorialidad, lo intangible y lo matérico, el individuo y lo colectivo, lo situado y lo global... fomentando la sensibilización y la concientización y así forjar otras formas de hacer (ser). 

​Este taller se ha creado en respuesta al programa actual de #MemorArte Fest.

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Artistic Resilience, creative tools in search of a social transformation.
Workshop directed by Seila Fernández Arconada.

Art and resilience are interwoven in the creative act. Artistic practice is a resilient practice in itself and therefore can offer tools and questions in processes for social transformation. Thus, I propose an activity that, using the virtual medium in an experimental and 'experiential' way, offers an environment of active, inclusive and committed participation, and thus generates joint reflection through creation.

This invitation, therefore, intends to start a joint journey between critical thinking and sensoriality, the intangible and the material, the individual and the collective, the situated and the global ... promoting awareness and awareness and thus forging other forms of doing (being).

This workshop has been created in response to #MemorArte Fest 2020.
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Today this workshop took place, a gathering where the aim was to share artistic experiences and creative tools but also to exchange ideas arising from an invitation I made to the participants. They had the chance to get immersed in a creative process that came to them in the form of a soundscape. This piece's objective was to inspire them to feel their surroundings responding actively with a creation. Despite the virtual meeting, the encounter was very immersive with a long and deep conversation.  I would like to thank all participants for their commitment and passion. Also, I would like to thank the organisers for their trust on me and my work, it has been a real honour to participate at #MemorArte Fest 2020, gracias. 
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Resiliencia Art´ística, taller #MemorArte Fest

20/10/2020

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Inscripciones #MemorArteFest2020

15/10/2020

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#MemorArteFest2020 realizará el 25 de octubre un taller de Resiliencia artística online gratuito, dirigido por Seila Fernández Arconada.
Cupo: 15 personas.
Inscríbete escribiendo a resilienciaartistica@gmail.com 
#ComisiónDeLaVerdad #nodoitaliaCEV #ApsMigras #Italia #Colombia #nosvemospronto #civediamo #VerdadSinFronteras
#MemorArteFest2020

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Presentation of "Arraigo al Agua"

8/10/2020

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""Km. 0" is located on a plot in the municipality of Meliana, where the artist and researcher Seila Fernández Arconada has "planted" her work entitled "Arraigo al agua (Rooting to water) as an epicenter. In her words: “I have represented the four cardinal points and the four natural elements that give life to the garden: wind, water, fire through the sun and, obviously, the earth. For this, I have used materials brought by the sea, such as branches and roots, which I have painted with dyes made of spinach, carrots, oranges ... I have also included a pot made with clay from l’Albufera. I have treated the work with the same care with which the garden is worked ”. (a parragraph translated from the original article in Spanish: 
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https://www.elmeridiano.es/la-huerta-del-carraixet-se-consolida-como-atractivo-turistico-al-inaugurar-el-kilometro-0-de-valencia/
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