2017

The Human Cannonball

A tent outside CC Unicentro Cúcuta hosted in continuous session the screening of One Flew Over the Void (Bala Perdida) by Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez. The flight over the border between Tijuana and San Diego offers a reflective entertainment break for families, youth, street traders and by-passers.

Thanks to Unicentro Cúcuta.

Equipo Sublime

In the framework of the workshop The Enemy is Inside. Shoot on us by Equipo Sublime, artists, students, communicators, designers, writers, and architects intervene with texts and graphics in photocopies in the public space of downtown Cúcuta, critically addressing paradigms of the border context between Colombia and Venezuela.

Thanks to Institut Ramon Llull.

Mental Border Control

The closing of the Mental Border Control context laboratory, by Melle Smets with the collaboration of Natalia Castillo and Dan Gamboa, closed the first edition of Juntos Aparte and was the last citizen appropriation of the Monumento a Cristo Rey before its reform, including all the communities that made the initiative possible and hosting a live performance by renowned rapper Ahiman as a colophon.

Thanks to the Secretariat of Culture and Tourism of the municipality of Cúcuta.

2019

Brotherhood Caravan

More than a thousand people walked in the name of brotherhood and regional alliance: civil society, international cooperation, companies, state entities and artistic community walked through the center of the city accompanying the work MiSsÉxodo / Banner for swallows by Juan Carvajal and Adrián Preciado to the Centro Cultural Quinta Teresa, where the Poetic Landing with Oscar Schȯȯnewolff took place.

Thanks to Fundación Hablemos and Ventura Plaza.

They walked with us, among others: Hablemos, El derecho a no obedecer, Grupo Salvador Moreno, Ciudad Verde, Movimiento Ambientalista Colombiano, Casa Cultural Frontera Morada, Comité para el agua y Páramo Norte de Santander, Colectivo Ixora Diversa, UFPS, Fundación Movimiento Vive Cúcuta, Todos por el desarrollo sostenible, Juripsic, Vita Et Libertatem, Universal Zulu Nation, Sintraunicol UFPS, ONG Sembrando un Norte, Es el momento, Corporación AHUMSA, La Fuerza Popular, Función Salviarte, JUCO, ACEU, Fundación Casa Alfarero, Fe y Alegría.

We were also joined by our sponsors Ladmedis, Saad, Viviendas y Valores, Jamestown.

Thanks to the National Police at the Metropolitan Area of Cucuta for the facilitations.

The VeneCo

Carmen Ludene is the VeneCO, wanted by everyone and by herself. She gropes her way from the border crossing to the downtown of Cúcuta, helped by passers-by. At the end she finds her place and her way in the Brotherhood Caravan.

The good neighbor’s door

Rolando Cerón welcomes everyone to Cúcuta and invites passers-by to cross the The good neighbor’s door, which symbolizes passage amidst restrictions and pays tribute to the historic openness of our border, inhabited by brothers on both sides of the line.

Border Walkers

The visionary project of sculptural intervention developed in 2013 by José Luis Zúñiga and María Villacorta during their residence at the El Pilar Foundation, once again toured the metropolitan area of Cúcuta with specific activities at five emblematic spots, where passers-by and residents interacted with the effigies. A photographic intervention by Lucas Molet completed the action, giving face and voice to Venezuelan walkers of the Americas.

Thanks to IOM, PRM, Sura and Cenfaco.

Porters on the Simon Bolivar International Bridge

The 1:1 scale photomural by Teresa Margolles -invited to develop a site-specific work in Juntos Aparte 2017- relocated in the urban area of Cúcuta the women who cross the goods of others as a means of subsistence on the border, in the midst of the ATACARTE urban art festival, which year after year brings together young local and foreign artists.

Thanks to AtacARTE.

Wrestling against…

Young Colombians and Venezuelans participating in the Verena Melgarejo Weinandt workshop interacted with passers-by at the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, inviting them to break mental boundaries and reflect on coexistence and circles of care as crucial tools for binational reconciliation.

Thanks to the PAR Program of USAID and ACDI-VOCA.