 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 Residencies25/11/2020  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 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:  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/      ""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:
https://www.elmeridiano.es/la-huerta-del-carraixet-se-consolida-como-atractivo-turistico-al-inaugurar-el-kilometro-0-de-valencia/  Images of the process "Arraigo al agua" "Arraigo al agua" (Rooting to water) by Seila Fernández Arconada Rooting to water explores the concept of the garden as a binding element to the territory, a local identity of the Carraixet community, and not only that, agriculture is the most binding practice to the land that exists since it made humanity sedentary, ingrained becoming the root of local care. Water is vital for the existence of this territory not only traditionally but as we know it today, its ditches are veins that interweave its human and non-human inhabitants, such as vegetables, citrus trees, etc. Climatic elements such as the "gota fría" (cold rain) or the proximity to the sea promote this symbiotic relationship. Water, therefore, is the center of this land art intervention which consists on four sculptural pieces like totem "planted" on the ground simulating a compass that interacts with the sun just as plants do, creating dynamism in their shadows. These "totems" are made of natural materials, mainly roots and branches brought by the sea and collected in the different seas /oceans of the Iberian Peninsula. The materials are also painted with natural dyes from local vegetables such as beets, spinach, carrots as well as citrus fruits. The installation marks a "km. 0" as the central element of this piece, the water, which is located in the center of this "wind rose" supported by a circular ceramic vessel buried in the earth showing the reflections of the landscape and its visitors.  "The artist and researcher Seila Fernández Arconada (Santander, 1986) has been selected by the jury of Km. 0 l'Horta València to carry out the work that will represent the symbolic epicenter of the city in the garden of Valencia, an initiative that seeks to highlight the value of this space as a promoter for the culture and the economy of the territory, as well as a vital element of the Valencian identity. Specifically, the artistic intervention by Seila Fernández Arconada will consist of four sculptural pieces made with natural materials (roots and branches collected on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea) and “planted” in the ground as totems. In addition, for its decoration it will use dyes from local vegetables and citrus. The Km. 0 l'Horta València call has been promoted by Turisme Carraixet with the support of the Diputació de València and the management of Enclave Land Art. The objective is to revitalize the towns of this community (Alfara del Patriarca, Foios, Bonrepòs i Mirambell , Vinalesa, Almàssera, Meliana and Albalat dels Sorells) as rich and sustainable proximity destinations. *This text has been translated to english from the media publishing the selection (in Spanish and Valencian originally) sources here: www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20201001/483774715792/la-artista-seila-fernandez-arconada-creara-el-kilometro-0-de-la-huerta.html https://valenciaextra.com/seila-fernandez-arconada-creara-kilometro-0-de-la-huerta/ https://www.europapress.es/comunitat-valenciana/noticia-artista-seila-fernandez-arconada-creara-kilometro-huerta-valencia-20201001102202.html www.losojosdehipatia.com.es/exposiciones/la-artista-seila-fernandez-arconada-creara-el-kilometro-0-de-valencia-en-la-huerta/ With the project #EstudioFlotante, cuando el río suena a Amazonas, I am looking for collaborators based at the Iberian Peninsula originally from the Amazonian territory. More info about the project: www.estudioflotante.art.blog/  These images show some of the field work done in Campoo by the "mediation" team, including myself and the artist Nacho Zubelzu. This work is framed in Rural Experimenta II. It has been a real pleasure to collaborate with all in particular to my team partner and La Ortiga Colectiva. For more information: Cultura y Ciudadanía I would like to share this blog of the research team I am part of "Art, research and feminism" which is based at the University of the Basque Country. Here you can find more information about it: https://investigacionarteyfeminismos.wordpress.com/  Comienza Rural Experimenta II, ahí estarémos esta semana lxs mediadorxs, Nacho Zubelzu y mi persona seremos lxs encargadxs de vincular los proyectos con el territorio y llevar el territorio de Campoo a cada unx de lxs personas que participan en Rural Experimenta en esta edición. Desde la mediación buscamos generar puentes, articulando desde el territorio para situar ideas, para buscar más preguntas que atraviesen los proyectos, para partir de lo rural para ubicar proyectos. "Empezamos la II edición de nuestro laboratorio ciudadano #RuralExperimenta, por delante cinco días donde prototiparemos en común los seis proyectos de innovación rural. Tejer relaciones humanas, debatir y escuchar, es esencial en el prototipado. Este año el desafío será hacerlo virtualmente. Pese a todo estaremos en constante conexión con el valle de Campoo mediante metodologías de mediación que trabajarán sobre el territorio. Además, esta tarde inauguraremos la edición junto a Medialab-Prado, Gobierno de Cantabria y La Ortiga Colectiva, además del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte." Cultura y Ciudadanía http://bit.ly/ruralexperimentaII  |
