The Possible Dialogues Journey Diálogos Posibles/Possible Dialogues is an initiative to connect social and environmental leaders, activists, artists and academics…
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Possible Dialogues
Jonathan Colin / OPIAC
2023
Atrato [Collaborations] Micronuclei Analysis About Atrato Collaborations Atrato Collaborations was a project that for 4 years (2018 – 2020) enabled…
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Rachel Aronoff
Yuber Palacios Torres
Atrato [Collaborations] Micronuclei Analysis
Rachel Aronoff / Yuber Palacios Torres
2023
Unpostponable: Narratives on Biodiversity Unpostponable involves a series of artistic residencies and exchanges between organisations and collectives from the Gulf…
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Fernando Arias
Henrry Gonzales
James Richardson
Tahuanty Jacanamijoy
Unpostponable : Narratives on Biodiversity
Fernando Arias / Henrry Gonzales / James Richardson / Tahuanty Jacanamijoy
2023
Unpostponable: Imaginative Practices Unpostponable involves a series of artistic residencies and exchanges between organisations and collectives from the Gulf of…
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Andrés Murillo Landero
Casa Yow Surf
Corporación Pacífico Mujer
Cráter Invertido
Nuquí Fish
Unpostponable : Imaginative Practices
Andrés Murillo Landero / Casa Yow Surf / Corporación Pacífico Mujer / Cráter Invertido / Nuquí Fish
2023
Unpostponable: Music, Memory and Community Unpostponable involves a series of artistic residencies and exchanges between organisations and collectives from the…
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Unpostponable : Music, Memory and Community
Sonidos Enraizados
2023
Atrato [Collaborations] Unlikely Encounters About Atrato Collaborations Atrato Collaborations (2018 – 2020) facilitated exchanges between cultural managers and artists from…
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Ariane Andereggen
Casa Wontanara/Fundación Mareia
Christoph Twickel
Corporaloteca
Kathrin Wildner
Motete
Ted Gaier
Atrato [Collaborations] Unlikely Encounters
Ariane Andereggen / Casa Wontanara/Fundación Mareia / Christoph Twickel / Corporaloteca / Kathrin Wildner / Motete / Ted Gaier
2023
Postcards from the Future Type: Feature film Length: 1’20” Co-producers: En Puja Communications Collective, Puerto Creativo Collectives, Tura Hip Hop…
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Colectivo Comunicaciones En Puja
Fundación Tura Hip-Hop
Puerto creativo
Yemayá Producciones
Postcards from the Future : feature film
Colectivo Comunicaciones En Puja / Fundación Tura Hip-Hop / Puerto creativo / Yemayá Producciones
2023
Coexisting “Coexisting” supported the shared and decentralised management of MAMA’s processes hand in hand with collectives from its ecosystem. Over…
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Colectivo Comunicaciones En Puja
Fundación Tura Hip-Hop
Puerto creativo
Coexisting
Colectivo Comunicaciones En Puja / Fundación Tura Hip-Hop / Puerto creativo
2023
Atrato Collaborations : Mercury Bodies About Atrato Collaborations Atrato Collaborations (2018 – 2020) facilitated exchanges between cultural managers and artists…
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Casa Wontanara/Fundación Mareia
knowbotiq
Atrato Collaboration: Mercury Bodies
Casa Wontanara/Fundación Mareia / knowbotiq
2023
Collaborative Research Project Cosmovisions on Land and Entangled Futures is a collaborative research project that seeks to investigate land rights and…
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Cosmovisions on Land and Entangled Futures
2022
Atrato Collaborations: Entanglements About Atrato Collaborations Atrato Collaborations (2018 – 2020) facilitated exchanges between cultural managers and artists from Colombia,…
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Alejandra Rojas Giraldo
Ana Garzón Sabogal
Atrato [collaborations] Entanglements
Alejandra Rojas Giraldo / Ana Garzón Sabogal
2020
“The purpose of this residency is to make the act of listening a dedicated, affective and complete bodily activity with…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA [De la escucha y del afecto]
Lucrecia Dalt
2019
Between 3rd and 7th December 2019, Bogotá hosted “Choral Narratives & Feminist Archaeologies”. The meeting of Choral Narratives & Feminist…
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Lucrecia Dalt
María Morata
Regina de Miguel
Sonia Fernández Pan
CHORAL NARRATIVES & FEMINIST ARCHAEOLOGIES
Lucrecia Dalt / María Morata / Regina de Miguel / Sonia Fernández Pan
2019
Continuing their co-creative practice with nature and its inherent intelligence, the artists travelled to the Chocó Base to share their…
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Jared Gradinger & Angela Schubot
UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA [Llover]
Jared Gradinger & Angela Schubot
2019
The workshop took place from October 22nd to October 31st 2019 at Más Arte Más Acción in Guachalito near Nuquí…
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Germaine Acogny
Jóvenes Creadores Del Chocó
Cali Dance Biennale
Germaine Acogny / Jóvenes Creadores Del Chocó
2019
The VI Seminar of Artistic Education of Chocó “Territorios PluriVersos” took place in Quibdó, Chocó, between 11th and 14th September…
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VI Seminar on Arts Education in Chocó “Territorios PluriVersos”
2019
Led by Edson Velandia, ‘El Festival de la Tigra’ has been held annually in Piedecuesta – Santander since 2017, with…
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3er Festival de La Tigra/Más arte, más debate
2019
Architect Gregorio Maya was selected as the third and final fellow of the Rogelio Salmona Fellowship programme. In the framework…
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Rogelio Salmona Fellowship 2019
Gregorio Maya
2019
“Through this research we aim to contribute to the understanding of the political potential of artistic and cultural interventions for…
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The Force of Art
Goran Tomka / Visnja Kisic
2019
During his residency Leonel developed the project ‘Auscultar un territorio de alumbramientos’. “Between the oceanic noise and the deep listening…
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Auscultate a territory of births
Leonel Vásquez
2019
Más Arte Más Acción, Idartes’ station CK:WEB, Exploratorio del Parque Explora and EterLab, joined forces to open the call for…
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Presentes Sonoros Global Soundscapes Call 2019
2019
Buenaventura and Nuquí are two Colombian Pacific territories; both regions are mainly inhabited by Afro-descendant communities that, through processes of…
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Ambulante Más Allá
En Puja
Fundación Tura Hip-Hop
Puerto creativo
Postcards from the future
Ambulante Más Allá / En Puja / Fundación Tura Hip-Hop / Puerto creativo
2019
Chocó Como Escuela (Chocó as a School) is a residency within Más Arte Más Acción’s Space to Reflect programme, a…
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Ana Garzón Sabogal
Ana María Arango
Ericka Flórez
Minia Biabiany
Nohelia Mosquera
CHOCÓ como escuela
Ana Garzón Sabogal / Ana María Arango / Ericka Flórez / Minia Biabiany / Nohelia Mosquera
2018
Susanne Leeb was the last resident in our 2018 program, in which we had been reflecting on the “now”. In…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA
Susanne Leeb
2018
Dominic Oliver Dudley is an architect who is particularly interested in the materials buildings are shaped from, and the various…
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Rogelio Salmona fellowship 2018
Dominic Oliver Dudley
2018
“The Prophecy” is a global project that combines art, culture and tradition to create critical fictions about the causes and…
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The Prophecy- Colombia
Fabrice Monteiro
2018
From 2018-2028 the Colombian-German production company Odradek is making a documentary feature film, following the lives of people from different…
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Hannah Hurtzig
Karin Harrasser
UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA [Future of Memory]
Hannah Hurtzig / Karin Harrasser
2018
Artist Donna Verheijden’s ‘Space to Reflect’ residency was an exchange between Más Arte Más Acción and IMPAKT Festival in the…
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Impakt 2018
Donna Verheijden
2018
Más Arte Más Acción, in alliance with the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena (FICCI), developed the second alliance between…
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SPACE TO REFLECT/FICCI RESIDENCY
Newsha Tavakolian
2018
LA TOMA DEL MAMBO (The Hijacking of MAMBO) took place between 9th and 11th February 2018. Más Arte Más Acción…
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Altiplano
Caldo de Cultivo + Todo Por La Praxis
Casa B
Colectivo Atempo
Derrumbe y El Validadero
El Honorable Cartel
La Distritofónica
Mesa de Artistas Plásticos de Engativá – MAPE
Museo Q
Radio Mixticius
Reserva Thomas Van Der Hammen
Survamos
La Toma del MAMBO
Altiplano / Caldo de Cultivo + Todo Por La Praxis / Casa B / Colectivo Atempo / Derrumbe y El Validadero / El Honorable Cartel / La Distritofónica / Mesa de Artistas Plásticos de Engativá – MAPE / Museo Q / Radio Mixticius / Reserva Thomas Van Der Hammen / Survamos
2018
The Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul was invited to MAMA for a Space to Reflect residency. The two-month residency…
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
utopías en la selva [COLOMBIAN SHORT STORIES]
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2017
For 2017 Freya Cobbin was selected as the first beneficiary of a three year Rogelio Salmona Fellowship programme. Supported by…
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Rogelio Salmona Fellowship
Freya Cobbin
2017
The project looks for a conciliation between the precise observation of the world that comes with the scientific research and…
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Alison Turnbull
Blanca Huertas
Forest Transformation
Alison Turnbull / Blanca Huertas
2017
Regina de Miguel was invited for a Space to Reflect and she also spent time in and around Quibdó, taking…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA [I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of]
Regina de Miguel
2017
Plot for studying Biodiversity A team of biologists including James Richardson Associate Professor at Rosario University with support from the…
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Adriana Sánchez
James Richardson
Rocío Cortés
Plot for studying Biodiversity
Adriana Sánchez / James Richardson / Rocío Cortés
2017
Alison Turnbull was invited to visit Chocó in February 2016 to research moths and butterflies, to make a new group…
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The zone of solitude
Alison Turnbull
Art
Choco
Climate change
Dibujo e Ilustración
Uncategorized @en
2016
Paco Gómez on his experience at the Chocó Base …”In addition to the beautiful landscape and calm space, we felt…
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Space to reflect
Paco Gomez Nadál
Art
Choco
Culture
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2016
“Humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis of which climate change, the destruction of species, and the intensification of social inequality…
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NUEVATOPIAS – NOWHERE BETTER THAN THIS PLACE
2016
Performance artist Antonia Baehr and Carola Gaggiano (light and sound technique) participated in Experimenta Sur. Later they did a residency…
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Antonia Baehr
Carola Caggiano
UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA
Antonia Baehr / Carola Caggiano
Art
Choco
Dibujo e Ilustración
Sexuality
Water
2016
Sebastián Meschenmoser visited our Chocó Base after spending a few days in Bogotá where he led drawing workshops with young…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA
Sebastian Meschenmoser
Art
Dibujo e Ilustración
Environment
Sustainability
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2016
To mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s book Utopia we invited anthropologist Margarita Serje, sociologist Jane Hindley and literary…
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Erna Von der Walde
Jane Hindley
Margarita Serje
IMAGINING NEW UTOPIAS
Erna Von der Walde / Jane Hindley / Margarita Serje
Climate change
Environment
Utopy
2016
As a way of marking 500 years of Utopia, MaMa produced a highly visible intervention in the centre of Bogotá….
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RE:BANDERA [flag]
Centro Memoria
Art
Culture
Politics
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2016
To mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s book Utopia we invited anthropologist Margarita Serje, sociologist Jane Hindley and the…
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Erna Von der Walde
Jane Hindley
Margarita Serje
ON MORE’S UTOPIA
Erna Von der Walde / Jane Hindley / Margarita Serje
2016
MaMa’s annual global soundscape invites artists to record sounds that relate to a specific issue. Consumption Soundscape reflects on the meaning…
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GLOBAL CONSUMPTION SOUNDSCAPE
Climate change
Environment
Mining
Music
Radio
Sound art
Sustainability
Technology
Water
2016
MaMa’s annual Global Soundscape invites artists from around the world to record sounds that relate to a specific issue. Technology…
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GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SOUNDSCAPE
Climate change
Environment
Music
Radio
Sound art
Sustainability
Technology
Water
2016
For Bogotá’s International Queer Film & Arts Festival, MaMa and El Parche organised a debate on Family, Diversity and Gender at…
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DEBATE: Family, diversity and gender
Choco
Culture
Gender
Politics
Sexuality
2016
In 2015 the artist Fernando Arias made a journey by water and air along the Atrato River in Chocó. The journey…
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Fernando Arias
Robert Lippok
ATRATO
Fernando Arias / Robert Lippok
Choco
Culture
Environment
Nuevatopias
Politics
Sound art
Utopy
2016
BREVES are short stories about inspirational local people – and make us question our relationship with the environment. Sina Ribak…
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Guillaume Parent
Sina Ribak
BREVES
Guillaume Parent / Sina Ribak
Choco
Culture
Heritage
Nuevatopias
Utopy
Video
2016
Choreographer Lia Rodriguez and her partner Sammi Landweer visited the Chocó Base in 2015. Lia’s deep sense of connection with…
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Lia Rodriguez
Sammi Landweer
Episodios del sur
Lia Rodriguez / Sammi Landweer
Dance
Nuevatopias
Utopy
Video
2016
MaMa invited singer-songwriter Edson Velandia and writer Miguel Tejada to collaborate in the creative process for Minga: Exploring Utopia.
Edson Velandia
Miguel Tejada
APUTOI
Edson Velandia / Miguel Tejada
2016
Artist Carolina Caycedo worked with communities in southern Huila affected by the planned construction of the Chillurco and Oporapa dams…
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CUERPOS DE AGUA (BODIES OF WATER)
Carolina Caycedo
2016
In 1965 two undergraduate students from Cambridge University set out on an expedition to the remote Colombian region of Chocó…
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Alba Colomo
Nathaniel Mann
BACK TO CHOCO
Alba Colomo / Nathaniel Mann
2016
An audio-visual workshop in the port city of Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast, that led to a transmedia documentary series….
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PUERTO CREATIVO (CREATIVE PORT)
2016
“What is at stake is the meaning of life; the illusion of sustainability, the mirage of organic farming, or bathroom…
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THE IMPASSES OF CONSUMERISM
Slavoj Zizek
2015
Within the framework of Sinfonía Trópico, the German artist Robert Lippok was invited by MaMa to Chocó Base to reflect…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA
Robert Lippok
Art
Choco
Sound art
Uncategorized @en
2015
In March-April 2015, Peter Ruehle undertook a residency with MaMa at the Chocó Base within the Sinfonía Trópico project. Five…
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UTOPÍAS EN LA SELVA
Peter Ruehle
Art
Art market
Choco
Climate change
Environment
2015
These short stories by two young men from Nuquí, Chocó, explore the dynamics of consumption and the meaning of life…
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Klidier Josué González
Osneyder Valoy
THE POSSIBILITY OF A LANDSCAPE / HOW CAN YOU DEAL WITH NEGLECT?
Klidier Josué González / Osneyder Valoy
2014
In 2014, Fernando Arias and Jonathan Colin traveled down the Amazon from Leticia to Belen. Their journey came about following…
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Fernando Arias
Jonathan Colin
CHANTS OF A JOURNEY
Fernando Arias / Jonathan Colin
2014
MINGA is a platform to explore “utopia” with 21 partners from the Arts Collaboratory network. It was launched at the…
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MINGA: EXPLORING UTOPIA
Arts Collaboratory
2014
Angolan musician and composer Victor Gama joined Colombian musicians and composers Pedro Ojeda and Urián Sarmiento on a journey in 2013….
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Pedro Ojeda
Urián Sarmiento
Víctor Gama
HOUSES IN THE DESERT / SOUNDS LIKE MOUNTAIN, SOUNDS LIKE JUNGLE
Pedro Ojeda / Urián Sarmiento / Víctor Gama
2013
Artists Maria Fernanda Cardoso and her partner Ross Harley visited the Chocó Base in 2013-14 to reflect on the theme…
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María Fernanda Cardoso
Ross Harley
WATER IS…
María Fernanda Cardoso / Ross Harley
2013
In 2014 Miguel Angel Rojas stayed at the Chocó Base. Whilst there, he thought of a new work about the…
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BEAUTIFUL PORT BY THE SEA
Miguel Ángel Rojas
2013
Doual’art is a contemporary art centre in Douala, Cameroon, that organises a triennial festival of public art. SUD 2013 questioned…
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Dual’Art
Dual’Art
Juan Fernando Herrán
NOTHING TO THROW AWAY
Dual’Art / Dual’Art / Juan Fernando Herrán
Nuevatopias
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2013
Julio Fierro is a geologist and professor at Colombia’s National University. After visiting the Chocó Base he participated in Más…
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Ana Patricia Palacios
Julio Fierro
THERE IS ALSO MINING IN PARADISE
Ana Patricia Palacios / Julio Fierro
2013
In 2013 Más Arte Más Debate focused on food sovereignty, rural development, areas of rural reserve and seeds. We invited…
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DEBATE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AREAS OF RURAL RESERVE AND SEEDS
Agriculture
Nuevatopias
Politics
Sustainability
Utopy
2013
Mining economist Juan Benavides and Geologist Julio Fierro participated in a debate on mining in Colombia, moderated by Erna Von…
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DEBATE: MINING IN COLOMBIA
Environment
Mining
Nuevatopias
Utopy
2013
Artist/curator Oscar Roldán and artist Catalina Toro visited the Chocó Base in 2014. Roldán spent his time considering the irrational…
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Catalina Toro
Oscar Roldán
GROWTH OR DE-GROWTH, THAT IS THE QUESTION…
Catalina Toro / Oscar Roldán
Art
Art market
Climate change
Environment
Nuevatopias
Utopy
2013
Charlotte Streck is the director of Climate Focus, an organisation that develops policies and advocates for the reduction of greenhouse…
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Charlotte Streck
Sinfonía Trópico
WASHED UP ON THE BEACH
Charlotte Streck / Sinfonía Trópico
2013
Colombian artist Elkin Calderón was proposed by MaMa to participate in the an international workshop KM0 Abubuya with our partner Kiosko in…
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OCORÓ-CATRERA / QUEEN OF ENÍN
Elkin Calderón
2013
Abel Rodriguez is an indigenous ethnobotanist with considerable knowledge of the Amazon rainforest. In 2014 he was awarded the Principal Laureate…
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Abel Rodríguez
Catalina Vargas
WATER FLOWS, WORDS HEAL
Abel Rodríguez / Catalina Vargas
2013
Nathalie Vélez left Spain to live in a remote place in the Chocó rainforest where she built her own house and…
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24 YEARS AGO I ARRIVED TO THIS PLACE
Nathalie Vélez
2013
During 2012 MaMa worked with people from Coquí, near the Chocó Base, to create a communal vegetable and herb garden….
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SOW / GASTRONOMY FESTIVAL
2012
In 2013, curator José Roca traveled to the Chocó Base to learn about MaMa’s processes and to experience how it…
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RESIDENCIA, EXPERIENCIA, SITIO
José Roca
2012
Thai artist Rirkrirt Tiravanija visited Chocó Base to explore utopia. Rirkrirt also participated in the First Gastronomic Festival of Coquí,…
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PARADISE LOST, PARADOX FOUND
Rirkrit Tiravanija
2012
Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator based in London. He is the chief curator at the Design Museum and…
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NOWHERE AT LAST
Justin McGuirk
2012
Senegalese artist Kan-Si is committed to the decentralisation of culture in Senegal through the creation of cultural points outside Dakar….
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MONEY DOES NOT EAT
Kan–Si
2012
Antoinette Aurell began her career as a fashion photographer, rapidly emerging as a significant force to collaborate with major international…
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ELOPING WITH THE TAITA
Antoinette Aurell
2012
El escritor, periodista y sociólogo, Alfredo Molano fue invitado a la Base Chocó dada su trayectoria de recorridos por el…
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Nuquí, de paso
Alfredo Molano
2012
For his exhibition El País de los Demás (The Country of Others) at the Galería Arte NC in Bogotá, Fernando Arias…
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Fernando Arias
María Belén Sáez de Ibarra
Colombia/Columbia
Fernando Arias / María Belén Sáez de Ibarra
2012
During his time at the Chocó Base, cultural analyst Max Bruinsma considered the concept of utopia and the role of design…
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REFLECTIONS ON UTOPIA AND NOW
Max Bruinsma
Nuevatopias
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2012
Louise Hopkins es un artista radicada en Glasgow, Escocia. Al intervenir en dos mapas creó lugares paradójicos que no habían existido…
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Louise Hopkins
Louise Hopkins
Mapas
Louise Hopkins / Louise Hopkins
Nuevatopias
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2012
Libia Posada continued her extensive research exploring the relationship between body, geography and territory at the Chocó Base and with…
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HERBS OF SALT AND SOIL
Libia Posada
2012
La Base Chocó fue diseñada por Joep Van Lieshout como espacio de reflexión para los artistas invitados a reflexionar sobre temas sociales y…
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Base Chocó
Joep van Lieshout
Art
Choco
Nuevatopias
Sustainability
Uncategorized @en
Utopy
2011
MaMa proposed Nemencio Berrio to attend a workshop on African Diaspora at the École des Sables in Senegal. He then visited…
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FROM THE INSIDE
Nemecio Berrío
2011
Brazilian anthropologist and artist Marie Ange Bordas worked with young people in Termales near the Chocó Base to explore ideas…
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DIARY ON BOARD
Marie Ange Bordas
Nuevatopias
Sin categoría
Utopy
2011
Marta Rodríguez is one of the most important Colombian documentary makers, unmasking the difficulties experienced by indigenous and Afro-descendant people….
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BACK TO THE PACIFIC
Marta Rodríguez
2011
Misión-Visión was a creative workshop directed by Fernando Arias and Elkin Calderón. Artists from the Eje Cafetero were trained in the use…
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Elkin Calderón
Fernando Arias
MISIÓN/VISIÓN
Elkin Calderón / Fernando Arias
2009
MICROmacro for the 13 Salon Regional de Artistas was curated by Fernando Arias and Jonathan Colin. It began with a…
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Fernando Arias
Jonathan Colin
MicroMACRO, XIII SALON REGIONAL DE ARTISTAS
Fernando Arias / Jonathan Colin
Art
Politics
Sexuality
Sin categoría
2009
Locombia was conceived by Fernando Arias during his yearlong residency at Space Studios in London. Arias invited three Colombian artists to consider cultural…
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Ana María Millán
Wilson Díaz
LOCOMBIA
Ana María Millán / Wilson Díaz
2006
Following the success of NiñosPAZificos in 2005, the Prince Claus Fund supported an educational programme in Nuquí called Casa Chocó-Late….
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Diego Arias
Jonathan Colin
CASA CHOCO-LATE
Diego Arias / Jonathan Colin
Choco
Culture
Sin categoría
2006
This project was carried out by Fernando Arias in Armenia, Quindío (Colombia). “Because of my father’s profession as a bacteriologist,…
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LaborARTorio
Fernando Arias
2006
The first project promoted by Fernando Arias in the Chocó region before the constitution of More Art More Action was…
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ORISA – NIÑOS PAZIFICOS
Diego Arias
2005