April 9, 2020

Artistic contest THE LANDSCAPE through my window

CONTEST RULES The Landscape Institute of the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina), together with the Latin American Landscape Initiative (LALI) —in the framework of the world month of landscape architecture (IFLA 2006 declaration)— convene professionals or amateurs /as to the visual arts, illustration or design in all its fields, to participate in the artistic contest THE LANDSCAPE THROUGH MY WINDOW. In this pandemic circumstance that the world is going through, it is proposed to reflect on "the landscape in the times of coronavirus" (COVID-19), through images that allow us to express the situation we are going through. The objective is to provide a space to express and share our landscapes from the condition of isolation (physical, mental, emotional), within the framework of this global health crisis, in connection with the environment in which each person lives, from a landscape perspective and with an environmental perspective. Who is it? People with […]
April 6, 2018

A visual and sound expedition of the city in 'Meta-landscape Medellín'

In November 2017, we launched the call for a joint artistic residency with the Exploratorio del Parque Explora de Medellín. Fueled by the theme of the 17th International Image Festival: New Expeditions, the call had as its winning project "Meta-landscape Medellín", a research-creation proposal by the plastic artist Alejandro Escobar. «Meta-landscape Medellín» proposes an exercise of co-creation by the author with the multi-instrumentalist musician Federico Goez, from which a hybrid piece of digital cartography will emerge through virtual reality technology. «It is an artistic installation with an analogue component and a digital one. The analogous component is a paper sculpture whose structure resembles interconnected tunnels. Its surface shows a multiplicity of city photographs arranged in such a way that the contrasts and gaps that separate multiple realities are evident; stray dogs, passers-by, streets, businesses, homeless, high-end vehicles, slums, buildings, bars, prostitution, […]
March 12, 2018

An audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle at the Pereira Art Museum

As of this March 16, Darién will be open to the Pereiran public, an audiovisual, ecological and contemplative exploration of the Darién jungle, developed with the aim of reflecting and extending the relationship between the human and the non-human, seeking to raise awareness about the environment and assume the importance of remembering and recognizing the territory in the face of its constant transformation. It is a joint production between the Pereira Art Museum and the International Image Festival of the interactive installation Darién: Symbiosis by ÉTER Lab, as part of a curatorship around the Anthropocene. 'Darién: Insectus' The work to be presented at the Pereira Museum proposes a poetic exploration of the territory and the ecological scales present in the Darién jungle, especially highlighting the contrast between micro and macro life. The insect is understood here as a basic life form, miniature universe, micro-object, atom almost […]
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