Pavilion

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Learning, (un)learning, and (re)learning

October7-9Bogotá CO

Pavilion is an international event based in Bogotá, Colombia, conceived to share creation and practice-based research in creative disciplines. The event is open to anyone interested in design, architecture, art, the humanities and creative practices. Over three days, the event will offer exhibitions, lectures by national and international keynotes, performances, showcases and activities that aim to strengthen the creative ecosystem of these fields.

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Unique talks with brilliant minds

Each day we will have transformative talks with globally renowned keynotes whose work drives new ways of thinking and creating in design, architecture, arts, music, and the humanities.

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Ela Minus

Colombian electronic music artist and producer, the first Latin American to sign with the British label Domino Records. She has performed on stages such as Coachella, Festival Estéreo Picnic, Primavera Sound, among others. Everything in her music (composition, production, sound design) goes through her hands. In a constant search to become better music and stay connected with the sounds that constantly revolve in her head, Ela found her freedom in sequencers, synthesizers, and machines.

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Andy Rahman

Founder of the Andyrahman Architect studio, based in Sidoarjo, Indonesia. His practice explores local craftsmanship and materials from the Nusantara archipelago as a starting point for an architecture he describes as “a way back”: a spiritual and formal quest that grows from direct dialogue with the craftsmen on site. His projects have been recognized with multiple awards from the Indonesian Institute of Architects (IAI).

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Jonathan Torres

New media artist working at the intersection between the organic and the synthetic. Since 2015, they have developed research and practice in prosthetic design, biomimesis, and hybrid prototyping, both manual and digital, using waste and organic materials as raw material. They coordinate the Hybrid Prototyping Laboratory at UCR and have taught in engineering, architecture, fine arts, and biology schools. Their current artistic work questions the symbolic constructions of capitalism through the death of machines and the blurred boundaries between the living and the fabricated.

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Esteban Cortázar

Colombian designer based in Paris. Esteban Cortázar grew up between continents and subcultures and trained in South Beach in the nineties, where figures such as Gianni Versace and Todd Oldham influenced him from the age of 13. At 18, he became the youngest designer to present at New York Fashion Week. In 2007, he arrived in Paris to lead the Maison Emanuel Ungaro, and in 2014 he pioneered shortening the cycle between runway and store delivery without sacrificing the artisanal process of his collections. His work revolves around the tension between the restricted body and the body in free movement. Vogue has described him as “the most uninhibited designer showing in Paris”.

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David Graham Burnett

Historian and theorist of science. He is a professor at Princeton University and director of the Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn. He was born in France and trained at Cambridge. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and The New School. His work addresses the relationships between nature, politics, and technology between the 17th and 20th centuries. He integrates academic research, cultural editing, and speculative artistic practice.

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Leyla Cárdenas

As an artist, Leyla Cárdenas explores architectural ruins, the city and the landscape as markers of social transformation, loss and historical memory. She starts with the decomposition of the physical and emotional fabric in the spaces she intervenes, and uses archives and remnants as material for site specific installations informed by history, architecture and archaeology. Over the past decade her practice has focused on unwoven textiles, in search of evanescent materialities and sculptures functioning more as trace than object. She has participated in biennials such as Cuenca, Lyon and the Hangzhou Textile Triennial, and has presented her work at the Palais de Tokyo, the Banco de la República and the museums LACMA, OCMA and MFAH.