ABOUT GLOBAL IN/JUSTICE Uiversity of Bern
LEAKING IMAGES IMÁGENES EN FUGA (leaking images) as a research and art collective have done a some insights during 2018 and 2019 on some colombian detention centers in order to exchange some of ideas and feeling about freedom using sound without a traditional face to face meeting (which obvioulsy could be quite difficult for security reasons). Participants: Javier Ramos: -Product Designer (B.A.) -Art Historian (M.A.) -Art History Researcher (Ph.D.) -Sound Artist Camilo Igua: -Philosopher (B.A.) -Art Management (M.A.) -Art Social Worker Alan Santamaría: -Media Artist (B.A.) -Combined Artistic Languages (M.A.) -Media Researcher As a media, sound that could be share in and out of detention centers trhough oneiric language (dreams and nightmares), this has been used in order to allow a better Exchange without stignma of crime. On the other hand, sound as a communication media helped us to keep narratives from oneiric world as a kind of image (a piece of a whole imaginary world) to be leaked to the outside world.
When we talk about justice, in a country like Colombia, where 93% of crimes remained unpunished but you still have crowded penitentiary centers… it appears a huge contradiction.
LEAKING IMAGES: Using this idea as a form of leakage of information, We begin a work with two penitentiaries centers in Bogotá, Colombia. It was not easy at the beginning, but we figured out that sounds can find a way out in a easier way that visual images. Hence, we decided to try a way of dematerialization of sound images (recorded behind bars, inside jails) to be reconfigured in not only sound again but also visual images. In late 2019 we started to have our first leaked images and we could exhibit our first insights on a Museum here in Bogotá. https://vimeo.com/380283889 We not only want to extract this information (sound recordings) as an extractivistic method for our project, during a year now, we have encouraged this group of persons private of liberty to learn about sound recording, sound editing and sound narratives in order to find many different outputs to be transcoded outside jail limits. This sort of open class with them have gave us the opportunity to share with them different ideas about the role of an artist or a researcher on society and on the other hand a full picture about how society as well have impede people private of its liberty to express itself, collaborate or re-signify its role in life.
Behind bars in Colombia there are not just “criminals” many innocents, poor, or people who committed a crime because of its ignorance and never have the chance to find a good lawyer or some kind of government help to explain their situation. In conclusion the experience of being inside a prison in Colombia is not different of the unequal picture outside, its far worst. Part of this phenomena is related to the disconnection among society out and inside bars. Since institutions insist to offer peace, not with peace it self but with numbers of captured people, people that enter to a prisons seams not to have a chance to chance or to have a fair trial. In a society that have many needs, prisons are the last. Using oneiric language and sound narrative we have found a way that images can be leaked from inside to outside. People inside prisons still having dreams but not nightmares, maybe because their minds try to Project different realities out of its prison nightmare. This instrumentalization of “dreaming” as a sort of way out, need to be shared because is oneiric narrative is easier to found no boundaries or differences between freedom or not freedom. People outside prison, in apparently freedom, have find a way to question about their own prison, and then is where experiences outside and inside seams to find a common path.
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WORKING PLAN IN BERN Since two of us are working as lecturers here in Bogotá, We plan to use our inter-period (from June to July) to develop pan art output. Basically we are now working in the Project (doing recordings, and trying different ways that recorded narratives could be shared), We want to use this opportunity in Bern to try a kind of visual transcoding from sound in a non Spanish speaking country, because we have find that accents, way of talking and narrative give public too much context. Our goal is to find a meeting point of different background people using oneiric language but transcoded to something more visual as well.
Since we are mainly researchers but not artists, we have found or own way to use art as an output for research, since art language is definitely more universal, interesting and full of non answered new questions. Our year goal is to construct a oneiric machine, but partial or new art output are very welcome, we don´t know if our final goal could appear during this residence as well. We will work quite intensively in Bern, since we all come from Colombia, just have this June-July period to develop something meaningful and Budget could be not enough to come and go more that one time from Bogota to Bern.
As a goal for 2020, our group want to construct and perform a kind of oneiric machine, this will help sound inputs to be transformed on visual outputs, hence we think that this residence is a huge opportunity for us to accelerate this kind of more fair and equal narrative since there will be more people interested on the same goal. Working methods We are art historians, designers, philosophers, and we all are interested on working as on interdisciplinary researches. We are full open to other people to give their opinion or even to directly collaborate with the project as authors.
Following up If we go to Bern, this definitely will be a milestone for our Project, so we will be pleased to show our final art output whenever it will be ready this year. Hence, we could publish or hand to you guys our new findings, it will be an honor. All this will be updated on a website that will be available son. About Budget Basically we will ask for 10.000CHF. This amount will be used mostly for our trip to Bern and for daily basis there. A plane ticket from here to Bern could be about 1.500CHF/each and we are three, we plan to stay there about 40 or 50 days, so the rest 4.500CHF will be use for accommodation and daily expenses for we three.
ABOUT ALREADY DONE WITH LEAKING IMAGES: ART INSTALATION: MUSEO CASA GAITÁN BOGOTA, 2019 https://vimeo.com/380283889 RECORDED DREAMS: https://soundcloud.com/elephantbrother/imagenes-en-fuga-relatos-oniricos-prueba-metarelatos OTHER PROPOSALS FOR LEAKING IMAGES PROJECT: 2ND PRICE FOR SOUND PLASTIC PRIZE BOGOTÁ, 2019 https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/brochure_proyecto-propuesta_plaza_y MEDELLIN MUSEUM EXHIBITION PUBLIC ART: STILL ON CONTEST RACE.
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PERSONAL: CV - PROJECTS: Javier Ramos: PORTFOLIOS: https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/sound_projects https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/portfolio_javier_ramos C.V: https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/javier_ramos_cv__11-2019_en Alan Santamaría: VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/alansantamaria PORTFOLIO: https://casa-hoffmann.com/portfolio/alan-santamaria/ PROJECTS RESUME: https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/alan_santamaria_recent_projects Camilo Igua: CV: https://issuu.com/elephantbrother/docs/curriculum_vitae__en_-_camilo_andre_s_igua_torres