United Screens: Rushes #4
¿How do we deconstruct and recompose our screens towards a network of film in the Global South?
UNITED SCREENS: RUSHES #4 15.01.2021 19:00
WITH Laura Huertas Millán, Luisa González and Juan Carlos Arias
MODERATED BY Valentina Medina, Juan Pablo García Sossa and Alvaro Rodriguez Badel
LANGUAGE The conversation takes place in Spanish with English translation and a good amount of Spanglish
ORGANISED BY Estación Terrena Bogotá, Colombia
ONLINE EVENT Join us on our Common Garden platform at this link https://play-rewind-record-play.estacionterrena.art/
(When entering please type any username you like and give permission to your mic if you would like to talk to other visitors)
For the fourth edition of the UNITED SCREENS RUSHES series, Estación Terrena Bogotá invites Laura Huertas Millán, Luisa González and Juan Carlos Arias to a conversation and collective envisioning around the redistribution of cultural imaginaries through cinematic semi-fiction narratives and contemporary documentary practice in relation to informality in Latin American social contexts.
Estación Terrena (ET) is a space for arts, research, technology and contemporary creation in the electronic sector of the city of Bogotá. Located in what was once an electronic components shop, this place gave rise to BETACOLOR, a store for the distribution and repair of video hardware.
During the 1980’s, color TVs arrived in Colombia along with SONY Betamax tapes and home film equipment. Play, rewind, record over, rewind, play. From soap operas and football games, to family films and other productions, in the following decades more Colombians recorded and screened films that were then distributed on cassettes, DVDs and USB sticks in the street. Thus, through color screens, a variety of scenes and realities were leaked into the collective cultural imaginary – remixing with other realities.
In 2020, both the district and the sector were affected by the disruption of the street due to the hard lockdown in response to the Covid19 pandemic, the eagerness to digitize content and the transformation of several adjacent shops into screen repair centers. Taking as a metaphor the dismantled screens found in the neighborhood, in this RUSHES session we aim to envision ways to deconstruct and re-configure our realities and to diversify mainstream collective imaginaries.
Estación Terrena: Valentina Medina, Álvaro Rodríguez, Juan Pablo García Sossa
In the framework of the project United Screens.
PARTICIPANTS
LAURA HUERTAS MILLAN is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist, whose practise stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art and research.
LUISA GONZÁLEZ LoFilmmaker and film researcher interested in alternative production methods, that can be inserted into amateurism. Films that take from popular culture and daily life, to make social and political reflections.
JUAN CARLOS ARIAS is profesor, film maker and researcher investigating the Transformations of the Cinema of Hunger and representations of violence in Colombia.
ESTACIÓN TERRENA is a space for arts, research, technology and contemporary creation located in the electronic sector of the city of Bogotá (carrera novena between 19th and 24th streets). It is a convergence point for multidisciplinary creative practices in relation to nature, technology and culture in Calle 22 #9-31.
VALENTINA MEDINA is a plastic artist and researcher based in Bogotá, interested in the creation of wandering spaces through objects and installations inspired by the relationship nature-technology.
ALVARO RODRIGUEZ BADEL is an Artist and film producer based in Bogotá working between the arts and film industry. He works with digital mediums that stand between arts and technology intersection.
JUAN PABLO GARCÍA SOSSA / JPGS is a designer, researcher and artist fascinated by the clash between emerging technologies and grass-root popular culture in tropical territories.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
CURATION Abhishek Nilamber, Laura Kloeckner, Juan Pablo García Sossa
MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod, Jörg-Peter Schulze, Billy Fowo
DESIGN Juan Pablo García Sossa
COMMUNICATIONS Anna Jäger
RUSHES are organised as part of the project UNITED SCREENS: NEAR EAST, MIDDLE EAST, FAR EAST. Contemplations on Contemporary Cinema – in collaboration with Wekalet Behna (Egypt), AVEC – L'Association de Volontariats, Échange Culturel et Action des Jeunes (Tunisia), NAAS – Network of Arab Alternative Screens (Lebanon), Estación Terrena (Colombia), and others.
SUPPORT This project is generously supported by Arab Funds for Art & Culture (AFAC).
Presentness
Presentness is an online and offline proposal that exhibits the work of fourteen artists within the framework of the fourthThe Wrong
This exhibition explores forms of occupation and on/off-line placement, their manifestations and temporalities. The processes that are part of this exhibition are searches on the quality of being present or close within the digital world, and in some cases, experiences from the screen. Starting from approaches to landscape (and its virtual manifestations), through time in simultaneous (with lags), to ways of inhabiting the wwweb, we seek to approach possible definitions and applications of presentness, of the experience of a moment at a distance, or in delay.
For this participation, we chose the work of Luis Sebastián Sanabria, Justin Hodges, Felipe Patarroyo, Juan Manuel Parra Chaparro, Federico Nieto, Yorely Valero, Salomé Rojas, Max Stocklosa, Sebastián Cruz, Zander Porter, Juan Covelli, Pablo Lazala, Sergio Román, Adriana García Galán and Santiago Caicedo.
The offline exhibition will have an opening event on Thursday, March 5 at Estación Terrena (Calle 22 # 9 -31, Bogotá, CO), and can be seen by appointment until March 28th.
MSD + Estación Terrena
The Glass Room Bogotá
How do we relate with Data in Colombia & the Global South?
Colombia is a country that appears recurrently in the top of users in social networks. In 2030 there will be an estimated 125 billions of connected devices in the world - 14 per person. Will all these new technologies make our lives more efficient, healthy and safe? How does our online life influence the way we perceive our environment? What opportunities does emerge and - above all - what does it mean to coexist with smart devices?
The Glass Room Bogotá is a curatorial project composed of an Exhibition on Data & Privacy, a mobile privacy workshop and a Noise performance. Within the framework of the Glass Room Experience, previously presented in multiple cities around the world; this is the first time that this exhibition performs outside the Global North.
In The Glass Room local, national and international artists, researchers, designers, hackers and enthusiasts meet to explore our digital life and the effects of hyperconnectivity.
This edition of The Glass Room Bogotá features research by Andrei Warren, Catalina Gómez Álvarez, Gabriel Zea, HACKBO, Juan Pablo García Sossa, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Julián Dupont, Keiichi Matsuda, Martín Nadal and Sergio Mantilla.
The Glass Room is an initiated project by Tactical Tech, an organization studying critical approaches to new technologies. It takes place at Estación Terrena, a space for art, technology and research in the heart of the electronic area in Bogotá, at the 9th Avenue between the 19th and 24th street.
United Screens: Rushes #4
¿How do we deconstruct and recompose our screens towards a network of film in the Global South?
UNITED SCREENS: RUSHES #4 15.01.2021 19:00
WITH Laura Huertas Millán, Luisa González and Juan Carlos Arias
MODERATED BY Valentina Medina, Juan Pablo García Sossa and Alvaro Rodriguez Badel
LANGUAGE The conversation takes place in Spanish with English translation and a good amount of Spanglish
ORGANISED BY Estación Terrena Bogotá, Colombia
ONLINE EVENT Join us on our Common Garden platform at this link https://play-rewind-record-play.estacionterrena.art/
(When entering please type any username you like and give permission to your mic if you would like to talk to other visitors)
For the fourth edition of the UNITED SCREENS RUSHES series, Estación Terrena Bogotá invites Laura Huertas Millán, Luisa González and Juan Carlos Arias to a conversation and collective envisioning around the redistribution of cultural imaginaries through cinematic semi-fiction narratives and contemporary documentary practice in relation to informality in Latin American social contexts.
Estación Terrena (ET) is a space for arts, research, technology and contemporary creation in the electronic sector of the city of Bogotá. Located in what was once an electronic components shop, this place gave rise to BETACOLOR, a store for the distribution and repair of video hardware.
During the 1980’s, color TVs arrived in Colombia along with SONY Betamax tapes and home film equipment. Play, rewind, record over, rewind, play. From soap operas and football games, to family films and other productions, in the following decades more Colombians recorded and screened films that were then distributed on cassettes, DVDs and USB sticks in the street. Thus, through color screens, a variety of scenes and realities were leaked into the collective cultural imaginary – remixing with other realities.
In 2020, both the district and the sector were affected by the disruption of the street due to the hard lockdown in response to the Covid19 pandemic, the eagerness to digitize content and the transformation of several adjacent shops into screen repair centers. Taking as a metaphor the dismantled screens found in the neighborhood, in this RUSHES session we aim to envision ways to deconstruct and re-configure our realities and to diversify mainstream collective imaginaries.
Estación Terrena: Valentina Medina, Álvaro Rodríguez, Juan Pablo García Sossa
In the framework of the project United Screens.
PARTICIPANTS
LAURA HUERTAS MILLAN is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist, whose practise stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art and research.
LUISA GONZÁLEZ LoFilmmaker and film researcher interested in alternative production methods, that can be inserted into amateurism. Films that take from popular culture and daily life, to make social and political reflections.
JUAN CARLOS ARIAS is profesor, film maker and researcher investigating the Transformations of the Cinema of Hunger and representations of violence in Colombia.
ESTACIÓN TERRENA is a space for arts, research, technology and contemporary creation located in the electronic sector of the city of Bogotá (carrera novena between 19th and 24th streets). It is a convergence point for multidisciplinary creative practices in relation to nature, technology and culture in Calle 22 #9-31.
VALENTINA MEDINA is a plastic artist and researcher based in Bogotá, interested in the creation of wandering spaces through objects and installations inspired by the relationship nature-technology.
ALVARO RODRIGUEZ BADEL is an Artist and film producer based in Bogotá working between the arts and film industry. He works with digital mediums that stand between arts and technology intersection.
JUAN PABLO GARCÍA SOSSA / JPGS is a designer, researcher and artist fascinated by the clash between emerging technologies and grass-root popular culture in tropical territories.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
CURATION Abhishek Nilamber, Laura Kloeckner, Juan Pablo García Sossa
MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod, Jörg-Peter Schulze, Billy Fowo
DESIGN Juan Pablo García Sossa
COMMUNICATIONS Anna Jäger
RUSHES are organised as part of the project UNITED SCREENS: NEAR EAST, MIDDLE EAST, FAR EAST. Contemplations on Contemporary Cinema – in collaboration with Wekalet Behna (Egypt), AVEC – L'Association de Volontariats, Échange Culturel et Action des Jeunes (Tunisia), NAAS – Network of Arab Alternative Screens (Lebanon), Estación Terrena (Colombia), and others.
SUPPORT This project is generously supported by Arab Funds for Art & Culture (AFAC).
Presentness
Presentness is an online and offline proposal that exhibits the work of fourteen artists within the framework of the fourthThe Wrong
This exhibition explores forms of occupation and on/off-line placement, their manifestations and temporalities. The processes that are part of this exhibition are searches on the quality of being present or close within the digital world, and in some cases, experiences from the screen. Starting from approaches to landscape (and its virtual manifestations), through time in simultaneous (with lags), to ways of inhabiting the wwweb, we seek to approach possible definitions and applications of presentness, of the experience of a moment at a distance, or in delay.
For this participation, we chose the work of Luis Sebastián Sanabria, Justin Hodges, Felipe Patarroyo, Juan Manuel Parra Chaparro, Federico Nieto, Yorely Valero, Salomé Rojas, Max Stocklosa, Sebastián Cruz, Zander Porter, Juan Covelli, Pablo Lazala, Sergio Román, Adriana García Galán and Santiago Caicedo.
The offline exhibition will have an opening event on Thursday, March 5 at Estación Terrena (Calle 22 # 9 -31, Bogotá, CO), and can be seen by appointment until March 28th.
MSD + Estación Terrena