Polen Imagen Audiovisual is an exponent of professional rigor, sharpness and creativity for audiovisual production in the border. They took charge of the official spot of JUNTOS APARTE 2019 which included an animation by the director Josué Jaramillo, local standard bearer of the stop-motion technique.

Radiante, the pioneer of electronic music in the region, composed the song Camino del sol in response to the closure of the Colombian-Venezuelan border in 2015. Since then, this mixture of electronics, native sounds and border roots is the official soundtrack of JUNTOS APARTE.

Rapper Ahiman is an icon of creative resistance, urban culture, and youth empowerment in Cúcuta and the border. His concert at the Monumento a Cristo Rey closed JUNTOS APARTE 2017 and his performance in 2019 opened the memorial intervention Voices to Transform Colombia.

The women of La Siembra, mother and daughters, are a model of creative and familiar role among the artistic community and the civil militancy of Cúcuta. Their live performance at the opening of JUNTOS APARTE 2019 offered a powerful repertoire that began with the already emblematic Canción peregrina.

The shoes and accessories of the Cucuta-based company MUSSI are appreciated by women all over Colombia. Since it was just an idea, MUSSI believed in JUNTOS APARTE, leading them to develop special editions of shoes in 2017 and 2019, in collaboration with local artist Wilmer Useche.

Los zapatos y accesorios de la empresa cucuteña @MUSSI Calzados y Moda son apreciados por mujeres en todo Colombia. Desde que era solo una idea, MUSSI creyó en JUNTOS APARTE, llevándolos a desarrollar ediciones especiales de zapatos en 2017 y 2019, en colaboración con el artista local Wilmer Leonardo Useche.

Gemelli’s custom-made shirts and fabrics, in addition to representing an outstanding family enterprise, are synonymous with tact and comfort. We were glad to verify this at JUNTOS APARTE 2019, thanks to the uniforms that they prepared for our Support Committee.

The writer, artist and researcher Juan Carvajal Franklin has been with JUNTOS APARTE since its inception. His brief and exceptional publication La casa en la frontera, developed with our ally UNIMINUTO, was the start of a journey that includes installations, conferences, books and even a boat.

The work of CORPATRIMONIO is crucial for the historical and patrimonial review of the border area. The intervention Rastros comunes in JUNTOS APARTE 2019 was the setting for the presentation of their publication El ferrocarril de Cúcuta, sensible and lucid treaty for the recovery of this regional symbol.

Cúcuta designer Adriana Contreras is a paradigm of good taste in context, when talking about fashion in the border. In JUNTOS APARTE 2019 her showroom hosted Abris los puentes, the context work of the Argentinian Marcelo Brodsky in collaboration with Juan Pablo Cohen from Cucuta.

Argentinian artist, photographer and activist Marcelo Brodsky developed a short and prolific residency at JUNTOS APARTE 2019. Intervention on images by local photojournalist Juan Pablo Cohen and on maps from the National General Archive, added to his own documentation of the context.

The shoe designer Jessi Caballero has reconciled the craft and luxury in her shoes. Her passion for wooden lasts has become a collector’s obsession. In JUNTOS APARTE 2019 part of those lasts made possible the work Tu huella es el camino by the Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero.

2017

A conversation with citizens from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama gave shape in JUNTOS APARTE 2017 to the first installment of the trilogy La Gran Colombia, an update of the ongoing project begun in 1998 by Colombian conceptual art pioneer Antonio Caro.

The motivator Pedro Medina shared in JUNTOS APARTE 2017 a renewed vision of the border as a territory for innovation and creativity. His conference #IBelieveInTheBorder claimed human and cultural crossings as potential for transformation amid complexity.
Thanks to #YoCreoEnColombia

The renowned sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos put his paradigmatic Epistemologies of the South into a border and citizenship context in his conference for JUNTOS APARTE 2017. The emblematic Zulima Theater was the stage for a positive resignification of Cúcuta within the global cartography.
Thanks to Fundación Cerámica Italia

Cucuta writer, artist and researcher Juan Carvajal expanded his publishing project La casa en la frontera in JUNTOS APARTE 2017. An installation, video art and a conference at UNIMINUTO’s headquarters expanded and updated this relevant historical reconstruction of the Maracaibo Lake Basin.
Thanks to UNIMINUTO

2019

Professor Mario Zambrano, researcher Kenny Sanguino and civic leader Eduardo Espinel, moderated by the intellectual Esperanza Paredes, addressed in JUNTOS APARTE 2019 the facts and figures that marked the border situation at the time being, offering essential clarifications for its understanding.

The second Mental Border Control context laboratory by Melle Smets and Natalia Castillo expanded its urban research at JUNTOS APARTE 2019 including new universities. As a closure, a conversation-happening-exhibition at the Museum of Memory with a special intervention by Luis Camnitzer.

Thanks to the Alliances for Reconciliation Program by USAID and ACDIVOCA, UNIMINUTO, UFPS, Unipamplona, and Alexander and Grey – New York

The independent school El Validadero Artístico included JUNTOS APARTE 2019 in its Inter-Nationalization Program, developing a workshop with its students and with artists from the border, actively participating with their Border Struct-culptures or Monuments in the Brotherhood Caravan.

The binational meeting Rastros comunes recovered in JUNTOS APARTE 2019 the stories of the Salón Binacional de Artes and the long awaited Cátedra Colombia-Venezuela, presented a new collaborative work of Taller el Hueco (CO) and launched the books El ferrocarril de Cúcuta and La casa en la frontera.
Thanks to UNIMINUTO, Aguas Kpital and CORPATRIMONIO

Cucuta born photographer Gabriela Sierra took advantage of her visit to JUNTOS APARTE 2019 to share her mastery of traditional photographic techniques with artists and students, putting her experience as a migrant photojournalist at the service of collective research on local border identity.

The second installment of Antonio Caro’s trilogy at JUNTOS APARTE 2019 consisted of a workshop with young people from the border. The result was the collective exhibition República Andina, a speculative story about this new country, which updates Gran Colombia from the very place of its birth.

Thanks to IBES

Argentinian artist, photographer and activist Marcelo Brodsky developed a short and prolific residency at JUNTOS APARTE 2019. Intervention on images by local photojournalist Juan Pablo Cohen and on maps from the National General Archive, added to his own documentation of the context. 

 Thanks to Fotomilenio, FanLab y Adriana Contreras.

Learn about the perspective of our partner in the Virtual Channel TOGETHER 2020, the program Alliances for Reconciliation of USAID and ACDIVOCA, on the importance of building border memory forcoexistence in equity in times of health crisis, human mobility and increased dynamics of exclusion.