KAIROI — Remembering the Future
KAIROI gathers imagined futures of peace from the Colombian diaspora and transforms them into AI-mediated visual traces, temporal data, and collective images. Through the act of remembering a future that has not yet arrived, the project explores how peace is felt, delayed, imagined, and shared.
Exotische Provinz Frühschoppen
Developed for Festival der Regionen in Austria, Exotische Provinz Frühschoppen is a speculative fermentation project that brings together food, folklore, conviviality, and AI-mediated imagery. Through a public gathering shaped by tropical absurdity and rural ritual, the work explores how identity, hospitality, and provincial imagination can be fermented into new collective forms.
PAN
PAN unfolds through documentary-based video, performance, writing, and public interventions. Moving between social unrest, pandemic confinement, Colombia’s return to public life, and seventeenth-century imaginaries of the future, the project studies how bodies, institutions, and collective memory rehearse possible futures in times of crisis.
https://hemisphericencounters.ca/projects/pan/
Metágora 2019–2039
Metágora 2019–2039 was a Participatory Action-Research project on the future of intangible cultural heritage policies in Colombia. Developed in the context of UNESCO’s XIV Intergovernmental Committee, it brought together cultural practitioners, academics, artists, and activists to imagine more sustainable, equitable, and socially just cultural policies for the next twenty years.
Council of Festive Devils
Developed during UNESCO’s XIV Intergovernmental Committee in Bogotá, Council of Festive Devils unfolded as a playful conspiracy across institutional, sacred, and presidential spaces. Amid Colombia’s historic social upheaval of 2019, the project brought festive bodies into dialogue with baroque colonial heritage, protocol, dissent, and future imaginaries, staging heritage as a field of re-signification rather than preservation. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2019/dec/13/devils-bogota-swift-encounter-friday-best-photos
Floating Carpet
Floating Carpet is a sculptural installation made from around 12,500 recycled wine corks and one kilometer of cord. The project follows the material journey of cork while drawing on Iranian nomadic carpet-making, wine pigmentation, water, and natural movement to create an object suspended between stillness and drift.
Shedding the Skin
Between Linz and Bilbao, Shedding the Skin traced the molting of two industrial cities into cultural and artistic laboratories. Through an artist-in-residence programme, exhibition, performances, workshops, radio, television, and river-based encounters, the project explored how art, memory, and urban regeneration reshape the future of post-industrial life.
Coreografía para una fiesta maldita
Festivity becomes a choreography of resistance in this RAUN artist-in-residence project at the National University of Colombia. Moving from workshop exercises to Marcha de las Flores, public space, and a second site, the work activated dance, humor, pleasure, trance, and exposed bodies as tools for political imagination and collective disobedience.
Agua del Futuro
Presented during the XI Hemispheric International Encounter in Mexico City, Agua del Futuro transformed UNAM’s pumabus into a time machine and invited participants to the 2040s, where a fictional company harvested water from human sweat. Through humor, performance, and speculative celebration, the project made the future water crisis tangible in the present.
The Dog is Missing
A sestina, a caligram, a visual riddle: The Dog is Missing is a six-video choreographic composition created with LAB ON STAGE at Urhof20 in Austria. Moving through the empty spaces of a theatre, the work explores body, movement, materiality, and the creative process as an aesthetic event in itself.
The Geek Chefs
Presented at Sankt Interface Festival in Linz, The Geek Chefs was a live cooking show in “espainsterreichish” dialect, mixing kitchen slapstick, digital jargon, and culinary absurdism. The gula gula duo flambéed computer condensers and served “Raspberry Pie,” “Floppy Schnitzel,” and fried computer mice in homage to the Mother of All Demos and all motherboards thereafter.
Swarm, Perform, Explore — How to Sense the City?
Developed by Expanderrr Collective for LIWOLI — Linux Week Linz, this workshop used swarming as a method for sensing and questioning public space. Participants created simple rules for collective movement and moved through the city as a temporary swarm, exploring how perception, behaviour, and orientation shift through collective action.
Why so Happy?
Produced during the 2016 Austrian presidential elections, Why so Happy? gathered and recomposed the smiles of political figures from SPÖ, ÖVP, FPÖ, Die Grünen, NEOS, and Piratenpartei. The work used the same freestanding street-display structures employed for electoral advertising, inserting itself into the visual language of the campaign rather than standing outside it. Installed in multiple versions across public space, the project examined the staged smile as a political technology: a gesture of reassurance, seduction, and control in moments of social and political uncertainty.
Prokrastinieren und Abschalten
Disguised as an official information billboard in Linz, Austria, Prokrastinieren und Abschalten invited passersby to procrastinate, disconnect, and briefly abandon the demand to remain productive and available. Created with César Escudero Andaluz, the intervention used institutional aesthetics against themselves, turning public signage into a quiet critique of contemporary urban life.
Expanderrr Collective
An international collective dedicated to open information, shared production, and the temporary activation of unused spaces. Expanderrr transformed neglected urban sites in Linz into laboratories for exhibitions, workshops, performances, lectures, experiments, and public encounters.
Mao Pimple
A short visual gag on political iconography, surveillance, and the fragile skin of public images.
