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What can I say? I am overwhelmed after the few days spent last week at the Indigenous Intercultural University Ayuuk in Jaltepec de Candayoc (Mixe indigenous region) Oaxaca (México). ISIA was originated with the indigenous organization SERmixe aiming to serve the indigenous communities in Oaxaca. The three main principles of this university are commonality, integrality and solidarity taken to practice in a unique holistic vision, structure, living space, sessions... While I was there Pr. Gunther Dietz (Universidad Veracruzana) gave a talk about "educación y diversidad cultural" as well as the few days presentacions of the first local masters thesis to whom I would like to congratulate for such incredible work. There is so much to learn from such university model over the occidental format that forgot its purpose in society. Thanks so much to Alejandro Mira Tapia for making this happening as well as the whole ISIA team, in particular to the Director Francisco Morfín. Gracias @ISIAyuuk
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I am so pleased to have contributed to the introduction of the event "Ecológicas Tentaculares" with Pr. Donna Haraway which took place at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia) on the 8th of August. Thanks to Santiago Martínez Medina for this opportunity and thanks so much Pr. Haraway for being such inspiration... The event can be seen in the following link: https://livestream.com/urosario/events/8773782?fbclid=IwAR3Al3LZQ1SlwtzEP7gfCuonwtH1RGGzkj_69cYLl6yrV_O1QjpLE2UjSV8  Gracias al equipo de Ciencias Sociales del Instituto Humboldt por estos tres maravillosos meses! Me llevo en mi maleta mucho cariño recibido, recuerdos lindísimos y mucho, mucho aprendizaje! Instituto Alexander Von Humboldt - Venado De Oro. Colombia  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 Experimento artístico en el espacio intermedio Por la artista Seila Fernández Arconada A las 18:00, el jueves 25 de Julio de 2019 En El Parche Artist residency Cra. 9 #2287, Bogotá (Colombia Cupo limitado, previa inscripción (y más info): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe48jfvUoJrxr2EvdyrMI7170gNyZXB026Vmqp7JD-5vBTBGw/viewform?usp=sf_link 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). 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)
These days I am getting immersed in the process of the project "Colombia BioResilience: Biodiversity resilience and ecosystem services in post-conflict socio-ecological systems in Colombia". Firstly from Bogotá where I am based at the Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicas Alexander von Humboldt, During this time, I am working on research and planning towards activities and field work while sharing time at the Institute, learning from their wide range of disciplines, collaborative methods and projects. Thanks to the Social Sciences team coordinated by Olga Lucia Hernández Manrique. For more information about the project, please have a look to the following website (under construction): http://sites.exeter.ac.uk/bioresilience/  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 |
