¡PRESENTE, PRESENT, ANWESEND!
INSTALLATION/COMMUNITY RITUAL/PERFORMANCE/TALKNadaloka welcomes Daniela Brill and Susana Ojeda as artist hosting: ¡PRESENTE, PRESENT, ANWESEND!
Conceived as a space of collective mourning for the lives of Colombian environmental and social activists, students and young people murdered by paramilitary groups linked to neo-extractivist corporations, ( Mega mining projects, water grabbing through the agro industries or hydro-electric projects etc),with the Colombian state and its armed forces.
Opening up a space to honor these lives, their presence in the territories, their presence in the streets during the protests. PRESENTE, PRESENT, ANWESEND! is a space to build new ways of being together and re-creating practices of making community and healing the wounds of coloniality.
Reaffirming the presences of those who participate in social movements is not a whim against the course of time: it is a political/artistic strategy to signify and dignify the struggles for life. It is the contribution to the exercise of collective (de)construction and it is the route to weave social experiences through movements of re-existence, of emergence and affirmation of presence. That is why we affirm that all of them, as well as all of us, are Presente! Present! Anwesend!
ARTISTIC WORKS: Beautiful City (2021) – short film 13 min, AUT. Directed by Susana Ojeda and Hubert Marz. This experimental road movie takes us on a trip along the Parkway in Bogotá. After a few steps the colonial city cracks, its human and non-human inhabitants transform it, the roots raise bricks, the continuous transit creates new roads, sounds of pots and pans interrupt normality, the protest songs call for courage, the street art calls for memory, the monuments fall. We dedicate this short to the memory of the people killed during the National Strike of 2019 and 2021.
Presencia (2021) – Daniela Brill. Presencia is a tribute to the young people killed by the Colombian National Police in Bogota on September 9, 2020. A 13 meter long ghost undulates from the ceiling to the floor. This presence of coal without water reminds us of the absence of life, the absence of thirteen young victims of this massacre. 3.4231° N, 76.5560° W (2021) – Daniela Brill. An empty landscape, without life, without people. Coordenadas de ausencias (2021) – Daniela Brill. 30 books of landscapes that tell us about the absence of the people killed in the massacres in Colombia since the beginning of 2020, the year when the massacres begin to increase once more. This is an exercise of constant mourning….
Maloca #1 Casa, Cosmos, Cuerpo (2021) – Lina Venegas. Ritual / Performance. House – Cosmos – Body. Homage to the victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. Ríos de Memoria – Community Rituals. This collective ritual creates space for mourning the environmental activists murdered in Colombia in recent years (Colombia is the country with the highest number of murdered environmental activists in the world). It seeks new ways of being together and dealing with our pain. The ritual includes music, painting together with candles and a media installation.
Food for thought: Tamales de Miyo ( for the opening). This typical dish will be prepared by Miyo, a Colombian activist who will use it to contribute to the travel expenses of women farmers from Los Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean who are currently participating in political training activities.
Digital works: Digital cartography of police violence during the national strike in Colombia. Project: Cerosetenta, Bellingcat, EnFlujo. Infographics window. Digital message about the national strike in Colombia produced by independent media for social networks (Instagram, Facebook). Canto por la vida. Loop of videos of songs about violence in Colombia. Talk: social protest, art-activism and political formation in Colombia. Marcela Torres, Daniela Brill, Susana Ojeda, Claudia Sandoval Romero.
PROGRAM: 20.10 // 18:00 Vernissage / Tamales de Miyo 23.10 // 16:00 Community ritual: ríos de memoria 25.10 // 19:00 Talk: social protest, art-activism and political formation in Colombia. Marcela Torres, Daniela Brill, Susana Ojeda, Claudia Sandoval Romero 27.10 // 19:00 Finissage / Maloca #1 Performance: Lina Venegas
With the support of: estudio elgozo, Huem Otero (city council), colectiva la pulpa, Diaspora colombiana en Austria
Biographies of the Artists
Daniela Brill Estrada (COL/DE/AT) Daniela Brill Estrada was born in Bogotá, Colombia. In June 2019, she completed her Master’s degree in Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Daniela’s artistic and theoretical work focuses on the idea of in-disciplinarity* and the desire to eliminate certain boundaries for the formation of new knowledge to be found. Following the ideals of hacker culture, Daniela’s work uses materials from the natural sciences, such as chemical elements in various forms, to reveal her theoretical and poetic statements about matter and nature. Daniela Brill collaborates with scientific institutions such as Art@CMS at CERN and Corpogen in Colombia. Brill is the organizer of Suratómica, a network of organizations, groups and individuals at the international level that promotes scientific and artistic thinking under the idea of collaboration and openness of knowledge. With a focus on Latin America and the Global South, the Suratómica Network aims to contribute to the creation of new and better social structures through the dissemination of scientific and artistic thought.
Susana Ojeda (COL/AT) Susana Ojeda is an anthropologist and filmmaker based in Vienna. Since 2011, she has been making independent documentaries about social and cultural projects with her co-owned production company: estudio elgozo. Living in Vienna since 2016, she oriented her projects to short films, as well as the audiovisual documentation of artistic projects and activism demonstrations. Born in Bogotá, Susana studied anthropology and has a MA in regional development. She worked for more than 15 years in social projects in various regions of Colombia. Hence, her audiovisual pieces have theoretical and methodological elements that come from anthropology, as well as reflections from ecofeminism and decolonial theories. In Vienna, Susana has co-created various social activism actions with the Kollektiv antikolonialer Interventionen in Wien, Ni Una Menos Austria and Colectiva la Pulpa.
Lina Venegas (COL/PE/AT) Dancer and choreographer with engineering background and Colombian – Peruvian roots, based in Austria. She holds a BA and MA in Contemporary Dance, Movement Research and Pedagogy from the Bruckner University in Linz, and an MS in Engineering from Los Andes University in Bogota. Her choreographic and pedagogic work focuses on cultural and social contents and it has been presented in diverse social and cultural contexts in Austria (Odeon Theater Wien, Kosmos Theater Wien, Urania Wien, Argekultur Salzburg, Festspielhaus St Pölten, Schlossmuseum Linz, Landesgalerie Linz, Brunnenpassage Wien, nadalokal Wien), Colombia (Alzate Avendaño Theater, Delia Zapata Theater, Artestudio Bogota), Japan (Saitama Arts Theater), Peru and Ghana. In Colombia she has collaborated on sustainable development projects with the Ministry of Environment, United Nations and NGOs, and coordinated the cultural space Artestudio Bogota. She has danced with Odeon Theater Vienna since 2006, featured in performances by Amanda Piña/nadaproductions, Kandis Williams, Fanni Futterknecht, Renato Zanella, Tanzfabrik-wien, Anna Tenta, ObjêtsFax Co, among others.