Author: marta

Launching our final publication: the digital Room to Bloom catalogue Since the beginning of this journey, we have opened digital and physical spaces of freedom, creation and imagination. This online room explores and presents in the form of a digital catalogue some of the seeds that Room to Bloom has generated and created within the network, but also outside of it, with references of inspiration and guidance for us. This catalogue does not pretend to be exhaustive but proposes a digital walk and exploration through

(Reflexiones personales tras la residencia) Siu Vásquez Existe un espejo de agua vivo en el caño de Mataven, proviene de aguas calmas color negro, respira, crece, decrece, refleja todo y protege lo que en su profundidad guarda.  Existe en el ojo humano una búsqueda por reflejo que domesWca el comportamiento, una  condición miméWca a lo que vemos y así los reflejos determinan nuestra forma de exisWr. A la  sofisWcada biotecnología del espejo de agua nos ha sido imposible llegar, no hay actualización  más veloz, pero del agua

Daniella Valz Gen Esta es una pequeña recopilación de notas sueltas que contienen reflexiones sobre la experiencia de preparación, inmersión y reflexión alrededor de la residencia Organizmo Bloom en la Comunidad de La Urbana en el río Matavén, en Octubre y Noviembre del 2022. Esta reflexión es continua y está en pleno proceso silencioso de fermentación. Por tanto comparto estas notas con un llamado a que sean tomadas como una de muchas iteraciones mutables y vivas. Al tratar de poner algunos sentires en palabras quiero aclarar

By Maria Buena Ventura ¿Cómo se prepara un pez? Las cocinas de La Urbana se extienden al río y están abiertas al conuco. Tienen vivas y presentes las relaciones con la vida que llevan a ellas. Las cocinas bogotanas apenas están reconstruyendo sus caminos hacia el río, hacia la siembra en medio del agua, que eran su origen. En Matavén, acompañada de los niños, pesqué un hemiodo. En Bogotá, acompañada de los viejos, pesqué Capitán. En Matavén, el camino al río vivo era era de pasos, en Bogotá, hoy, es

By Natalia Guarnizo This text is a reflection on my role as a manager and mediator in the Organizmo Bloom project. In it I narrate the process of ideation and planning of this experience and my accompaniment of its development. These are personal reflections, lessons and epiphanies collected along the way, that may be of use when it comes time to think of other forms of mediating intercultural dialogues and weaving horizontal processes of co-creation. Time of Opportunity Organizmo Bloom grew out of an invitation from European

Irene Coppola: Moving Monuments Irene Coppola was born in Palermo in 1991. An artist based in Palermo and Milan, she is part of the Room to Bloom platform. After completing her academic studies at NABA in Milan and the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, she participated in national and international exhibitions and projects, including AndAndAnd for Documenta13 in Kassel, the Do Disturb festival at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Dolomiti Contemporanee in Pieve di Cadore, Flight Sketches at the Cercle Cité in Luxembourg,

Together with Organizmo and La Urbana community based in the jungles of Matavén, the Amazonian foothills, and independent curator Marcela Caldas, Room to Bloom opens Organizmo Bloom residency on the 4th of October 2022. Organizmo Bloom branches artists with La Urbana rural community based in one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, on the idea of weaving together: weaving an intercultural dialogue and co-creation process. The residency aims to foster and guarantee a horizontal learning space of exchange and co-creation, community based through the

Lena Chen is a member of the Room to Bloom community and resident with Studio Rizoma. She is a Chinese American writer and artist creating performances and socially engaged art. A recipient of Mozilla Foundation’s 2022 Creative Media Award and “Best Emerging Talent” at the 2019 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, her work has appeared at Transmediale, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Färgfabriken, Baltimore Museum of Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sheffield DocFest, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, among others. She has been awarded grants and

We are so excited to share with you the new programme of activities of Room to Bloom. With the new mentorship programme, developed in a pilot phase, Room to Bloom aims to provide a boost to emerging feminist artists international visibility and careers and an opportunity for them to work out in a growing network in Palermo and in Europe.  Throughout the programme the Room to Bloom Community and mentors accompany emerging artists in their professional development. 5-11 December 2022 in Palermo, January 2023 online The

Room to Bloom Festival will take place next 1-4 November 2022 in Malmö, Sweden on the theme: Celebrating Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Art & Activism. Check out the conditions to apply and participate! Following the artists gatherings organised by Room to Bloom programme in Athens, Palermo, Kyiv and online, we are now launching an open invitation to participate in the Room to Bloom Festival that will take place at STPLN in Malmö, Sweden on 1 - 4 November. We aspire to have a collective moment for artists and