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Babel Media Art is a platform conceived and managed by artists for the exhibition of contemporary art on the facade of the Colpatria Tower. By broadcasting the work of emerging and consolidated artists in the public space of Bogota, it proposes critical reflections between art, capital, public and private space, diffusion and circulation. By opening new routes of content transmission, influencing and re-connoting or even subverting an economic symbol of reference in the country, the platform contributes to encourage alternative dialogues between citizenship, artistic practice and institutions.
Since its inception in October 2017 with Raúl Marroquín’s “Snowstorm,” and Alfredo Jaar’s “A logo for America” in November 2017, Babel Media Art has organized ten artistic interventions featuring both national and international artists, and has been a part of ARTBO fds, a renowned art fair in Bogotá. Alongside the exhibitions, Babel Media Art also organizes round table discussions, conferences, and other events that encourage reflection and dialogue about the exhibited artworks, while also welcoming feedback from the public. Babel Media Art is an emerging platform that seeks to foster meaningful interactions between art, citizenship, and institutions, while engaging closely with the local context.
Babel Media Art is an emerging platform founded by Colombian artists Daniela Medina Poch and Iván Tovar, working together with artists Verónica López, Rafael Díaz and Daniela Gutierrez.
October, 2017
Raúl Marroquín
Snowstorm
1990, The Netherlands | Animation | 1’50’’ in loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
November, 2017
Alfredo Jaar
A Logo for America
Times Square, New York 1987 | Public Intervention | 1’40” in loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
January, 2018
Ivan Argote
Si Mi Sol
0’00’’ en loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
March, 2018
Ivan Tovar
Fuente de Fuego
1’07” in loop |
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
March, 2018
Daniela Medina Poch
Suyo / Mío
1’51 in loop | Red & Black
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
April, 2018
Maria Isabel Rueda
Horror Vacui
2’07” in loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
April, 2018
François Boucher
Tome de su Fuente
0’00” in loop | Red & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
April, 2018
Ana María Millán & Andrés Sandoval
Palacio
1′ en loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
April, 2018
Bernardo Ortiz
Untitled
1’18” in loop
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
July, 2018
Ana María Montenegro
Tótem
1’00” en loop | Black & White
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
May, 2019
Antoni Muntadas
Warning: Perception Requires Involvement’
1’30” in loop | Red & White
Work produced 1999 and adapted in 2019 for Torre Colpatria Intervention
Torre Colpatria Façade
Bogotá, Colombia.
How can we actively move towards accessible and inclusive planetary stewardship? What is usually rendered as knowledge -and what isnt-, and what are the mechanisms and agendas behind knowledge production in ecological discourses? What does embodied agency in the context of the climate crisis feel like?
Embodied Climate Agency (eca) is a platform that amplifies embodied and situated knowledge of the climate crisis through conversations and learning spaces with climate witnesses as experts.
Climate witness:
— anyone who has been directly exposed and possibly affected by a climatic hazard.
/ anyone who feels addressed by the term.
By acknowledging cognitive justice as a relevant axis and a means to redistribute agency and foster inclusive climatic co-responsibilities, eca is committed to decentralizing and de-canonizing climate-related knowledge.
~eca is a space that opens up space~.
Embodied Climate Agency officially began operating as a platform at the beginning of 2023. Since then it has evolved into a living project with its own life and rhythms.
Within eca’s archive there are interviews to Abdulmazhitova Aziz (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Juliana Andrea Albarracin Silva (Guaviare, Colombia), Esther Aragón (Buenaventura, Colombia), Baraka Leo (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Chung Y U (Taipei, Taiwan), Esteiman Dario (Guaviare, Colombia), Toribio Miguel Expositó (La Palma, Spain), Paula García (Barichara, Colombia), Felipe Medina (Barichara, Colombia), Khristen Quiambao (Pampanga, The Philippines), Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (La Paz, Bolivia), José Eduardo Sánchez Díaz (Guaviare, Colombia), Erwin Torio (Pampanga, The Philippines), Miguel Valdivia (Asunción, Paraguay) and the many ecosystems they bring with their stories. Interviews will continue.
Laboratorio de Arte y Dinero
IDARTES + Fundación Arteria
Bogotá, Colombia
October-December, 2017