{"id":1323,"date":"2020-09-07T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/?page_id=1323"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:55:48","slug":"event-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/en\/event-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; da_disable_devices=&#8221;off|off|off&#8221; da_is_popup=&#8221;off&#8221; da_exit_intent=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_close=&#8221;on&#8221; da_alt_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_dark_close=&#8221;off&#8221; da_not_modal=&#8221;on&#8221; da_is_singular=&#8221;off&#8221; da_with_loader=&#8221;off&#8221; da_has_shadow=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the success of the first edition, <em>JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> set out on a journey <span>far <\/span>beyond its initial programme. Mobilising an even greater public and <span>engaging<\/span> mass civilian participation in a reflection on art <span>at<\/span> the border, it increased its national and international visibility, participating in various s<span>it<\/span>es of debate, such as the U<span>NESCO<\/span> Communications Chair at the Universidad Javeriana de Bogot\u00e1, the 16th Global South Forum of the BIENALSUR in Buenos Aires, and the 2nd Americas Cultural Summit in Buenos Aires, where it <span>was the<\/span> official voice for \u201cCultural Changes and Migration\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1-CUMBRE-CULTURAL-DE-LAS-AM\u00c9RICAS-1.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;1 CUMBRE CULTURAL DE LAS AM\u00c9RICAS&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This track record has led to the consolidation of those institutional and private partners who believed in the initiative since the start, as well as the support of the Presidency of the Republic from its Venezuela Border Management, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the direct support of USAID International Development Agency and ACDI\/VOCA through their Alliances for Reconciliation Program<strong>, <\/strong>IOM (International Organisation for Migration) with the support of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the US Department of State, and diplomatic representations such as the Canadian and Spanish <span>e<\/span>mbass<span>ies<\/span> in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second edition of JUNTOS APARTE 2019 involved the participation of 97 artists* and thinkers, of which 57 hailed from 24 countries, whil<span>st<\/span> 12 were national and 28 regional (Norte de Santander and T\u00e1chira). In this version, a progressive route addressed the concept of borders and human mobility, taking the essential notions of state and territory as starting points to then cover the economic, geopolitical, social, and cultural variables that intervene on these phenomena, constructing a narrative from the general to the particular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The<em> Rep\u00fablica Andina<\/em> exhibition marked the pre<span>&#8211;<\/span>inaugural event, consisting in the second presentation of the <em>Gran Colombia<\/em> trilogy, begun by Antonio Caro in 2017 and resulting from a workshop with local emerging artists. Meanwhile, <span>t<\/span>he <em>Caravana de la Hermandad<\/em> convened more than a thousand people who walked for kinship and regional alliance. Together, members of civil society, international cooperation organisations, local entrepreneurs, members of state bodies, and the art community crossed the city centre accompanying the binational artistic intervention<em> MiSs\u00c9xodo \/ Estandarte para golondrinas <\/em>\u2014a boat of over thirteen-metres in length that <span>used to<\/span> cross the r\u00edo T\u00e1chira between Colombia and Venezuela on a daily basis\u2014 reaching the Centro Cultural Quinta Teresa, where the poetic disembarkation took place.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2-CARAVANA-DE-LA-HERMANDAD-1.png&#8221; title_text=&#8221;2 CARAVANA DE LA HERMANDAD&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibition circuit began with the show <em>es_ta_do_na_ci\u00f3n<\/em> in the Museo Norte de Santander y ciudad de C\u00facuta<span>,<\/span> set<span>ting<\/span> the general context as that of the nation-state, the system of political organisation in force since the seventeenth century through which the existing border model was established, as well as its current crisis of representation. In the Biblioteca P\u00fablica Julio P\u00e9rez Ferrero, the exhibition <em>Entre toche y guayaba madura<\/em> \u2014local adaptation of the popular Colombian saying \u201cpelea de tigre con burro amarrado\u201d (a fight between a tiger and a tied-up donkey)\u2014 uses this analogy of inequality to approach the relationship between centre and periphery, a concept that starts with the economy to then extend to the political, social, and cultural. The Casa Museo Torre del Reloj, housed the third exhibition,\u00a0<em>Sigan bailando (Despierte al vecino),<\/em>\u00a0reminding us that the history of migration is that of humanity, an enduring struggle replete with misunderstandings among cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, classes and genders. The circuit<span> ended <\/span>in the Centro Cultural Quinta Teresa with the show <em>El puente est\u00e1 quebrado<\/em>, an exercise in the recovery of the traces of border dialogue via turn-of-the-century artistic production from both sides of the R\u00edo T\u00e1chira. To date, this is the greatest collection of works concerning the regional border, allowing <span>the public<\/span> to appreciate the transformation of the border model from the artistic perspective. Of particular note was the homage to mentor Luis Miguel \u201cLucho\u201d Brahim (CO), standard bearer of regional culture and co-founder of Juntos Aparte, who passed away in 2019. <span>Equally important was<\/span> the participation of\u00a0Beatriz Gonz\u00e1lez (CO)<span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3-BIBLIOTECA-P%C3%9ABLICA-PERJOVSCHI.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>*Participating artists in the 2019 exhibition circuit: Adri\u00e1n Preciado (VE), Al\u00e1n Carrasco (PE\/ES), Alexandra Gelis and Jorge Lozano (VE\/CO), Alexandra Morelli (CO), Angie J\u00e1come (CO), Amparo C\u00e1rdenas (CO), Andr\u00e9s Duplat (CO), Andr\u00e9s Moreno Hoffmann (CO), Avelino Sala (ES), Azahara Cerezo (ES), Betsabe\u00e9 Romero (MX), Calentado Producciones (CO), Carlos Martiel (CU), Carmen Ludene (VE), Ciprian Homorodean (RO), Dan Perjovschi (RO), Daniel Ar\u00e9valo (CO), Daniela Ortiz (PE), David Grimaldo (CO), Diana Villamizar (VE), Esperanza Mayobre (VE), Francesc Ruiz Abad (ES), Gabriel Castillo (CO), Gabriela Sierra (CO), Giuliana Racco (CA), Glenda Le\u00f3n (CU\/ES), Iv\u00e1n Candeo (VE), Jorge Garc\u00eda (ES), Jaime Mart\u00ednez \u201cPekoz\u201d (CO), Jos\u00e9 Luis G\u00e9lvez (CO), Juan Carvajal Franklin (CO), Juan Pablo Cohen (CO), Juan Pablo Echeverri (CO), Julio Armando Ortiz (CO), Khaled Jarrar (PS), Lester Rodr\u00edguez (HN), Luis Molina-Pant\u00edn (VE\/CH), Marcos \u00c1vila Forero (FR\/CO), Mar\u00eda Bel\u00e9n Hern\u00e1ndez (CO), Mauricio S\u00e1nchez (CO), MO Colectivo (CO), Mohamed Arejdal (MA), Nicol\u00e1s Cadavid (CO), Nohem\u00ed Vega (CO), N\u00faria G\u00fcell (ES), \u00d1ukanchik People (EC), Oier Gil (ES), Oscar Iv\u00e1n Roque (CO), Paola Ca\u00f1izares (CO), PSJM (ES), Ram\u00f3n Mateos (ES), Richard Moncada (VE), Samir Quintero (CO), Santiago V\u00e9lez (CO), Sebasti\u00e1n Delgado (CO), Sergio Dur\u00e1n \u201cBayo\u201d (CO\/VE), Timea Oravecz (HU), Verena Melgarejo Weinandt (DE\/BO), Wilmer Useche (CO), Xenia Hausner (AT), Yael Bartana (IL), and Yu-Wen Wu (TW).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the 2019 site-specific project, Argentinian artist, photographer, and activist Marcelo Brodsky developed a brief and prolific residency from which three lines of work emerged. Firstly, he altered two emblematic images of Juan Pablo Cohen, photographer and visual reporter of the border for the local newspaper La Opini\u00f3n. Brodsky drew over photographs of the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Tienditas bridges \u2014the first inundated with a tide of people and the second blocked by containers. He also intervened on cartographic pieces from the Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n \u2014the failed plan to overthrow the Bar\u00ed indigenous population, a vision of contemporary nomadism in what was foreseen as the Gran Colombia, a note on the arrival of the conquistadors as the first great migration of America\u2014 and he composed significant polyptychs moving from scenes of the Puente Internacional Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and the <em>Caravana de la Hermandad Juntos Aparte 2019<\/em> that he himself photographed, proposing a reading of the symbolic exchange between the groups and their contexts.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/4-FACHADA-MARCELO.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second contextual workshop, <em>Mental Border Control<\/em>, led and developed by Melle Smets (NL) and Natalia Castillo (CO), incorporated local universities Uniminuto, UFPS and Unipamplona in research on how mental limits affect the construction of the physical landscape and social surroundings. \u201cMore mental limits mean less open space. Less open space means less options for the development of civil coexistence.\u201d The exhibition of the results in the Museo de la Memoria de C\u00facuta functioned as a space for exchange with C\u00facuta residents and established an intelligent dialogue with the installation by special guest, renowned conceptual artist and educator, Luis Camnitzer (UY).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The strengthening of the pedagogical programme allowed for students, artists, leaders, thinkers, and citizens in general to approach the concepts of border and human movement from perspectives such as feminism, ethnic diversity, the environment, the culture of peace, economic impact, and cultural activism. This included a round table with prominent local actors \u2014scholar Esperanza Paredes (CO), professor Mario Zambrano (CO), civic leader Eduardo Espinel (VE), and researcher Kenny Sanguino (CO)\u2014 and a series of conferences and workshops by relevant figures, such as academic and activist, Yuderkys Espinosa (DO), the artistic-academic director of the BIENALSUR, Diana Wechsler (AR), the director of UNESCO\u2019s Global Centre for Peace, Guy Djoken, artists such as Giuliana Racco (CA), Ram\u00f3n Mateos (ES), and Verena Melgarejo (DE\/BO), the photographer Gabriela Sierra (CO), and the Bogot\u00e1-based school, El Validadero Art\u00edstico (CO).<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/5-WECHSLER-CONFERENCIA.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the repertoire of the <em>Ciclo Audiovisual<\/em>, approached themes of the border and migration from the audiovisual perspective, expanding beyond video art \u2014Ana Montenegro (CO), Jess X Snow and Patrick Weishampel (CH\/US), Vasco Araujo (PT)\u2014, to include cinematography \u2014Cary Fukunaga (US), Martti Helde (EE), Pablo Giorgelli (AR)\u2014and documentary \u2014El COLEF (MX) and Ai Wei Wei (CN). In addition, moving from the sessions in the city centre, the cycle expanded to reach the Centre for Temporary Attention for Migrants along the border and the La Fortaleza neighbourhood, bringing a special film programme to the community through a day of coexistence and integration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal !msorm;\"><em>Los caminantes de la frontera<\/em><\/span>, the visionary sculptural intervention developed in 2013 by Jos\u00e9 Luis Zu\u00f1iga (ES) and Mar\u00eda Villacorta (ES) during their residency at Fundaci\u00f3n El Pilar, once again\u00a0crisscrossed the metropolitan area of C\u00facuta accompanied by specific activities in five emblematic points, where passers-by and residents interacted with the effigies. Initially conceived to speculate on border identity and produced in collaboration with various artists and communities, these walkers<span>,<\/span> transformed b<span>y a<\/span> turn of events into <span>a real <\/span>social landscape through the bodies of th<span>ose<\/span> departing from Venezuela and moving across South America, returned to public space to activate it as a stage for mediation and civic construction.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/6-CAMINANTES.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; title_text=&#8221;6 CAMINANTES&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also occupying public space, <em>Carretilleras sobre el Puente Internacional Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar<\/em>, a photo-mural by Teresa Margolles (MX) \u2014invited to develop a site specific work for Juntos Aparte 2017\u2014 focused on the women who transport other people\u2019s goods as a means of border subsistence. Set in the centre of C\u00facuta, the work dialogued with the urban art festival ATACARTE, which summons young local and international artists year after year.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/7-MARGOLLES.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Rastros comunes<\/em> was presented at the Universidad Minuto de Dios, a binational gathering recuperating the accounts of the Sal\u00f3n Binacional de Arte\u00a0 \u2014a regional model closed down after almost two decades of activity\u2014 organised by masters Jorge Hern\u00e1ndez (CO), Rafael S\u00e1nchez (VE) and Otto Rosales (VE) and the long-aspired C\u00e1tedra Colombia-Venezuela \u2014regional inter-university programme on border studies\u2014 led by researcher Jonathan Carrero (VE), including the presentation of a new collaborative work by the legendary local art collective Taller el Hueco (CO)<span>,<\/span> and culminating in the launch of the books <em>El Ferrocarril de C\u00facuta<\/em> and\u00a0<em>La casa en la frontera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/8-PASOS-DE-FRONTERA.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The intervention <em>Voces para transformar a Colombia<\/em> was developed in collaboration with the Centro Nacional de Memoria Hist\u00f3rica; an installation in the Biblioteca P\u00fablica Julio P\u00e9rez Ferrero conceived as a space for dialogue and cultural exchange starting from gastronomic memory. The presentation included a round table with victims of the armed conflict, an artwork by local urban artist Yeider S\u00e1nchez \u201cShowy\u201d (CO), and a live concert<span> by renowned rapper Ahiman (CO) <\/span><span>accompanied with a binational culinary session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mediation was central to the 2019 edition with the initiation of the Escuela de Aprestamiento en Mediaci\u00f3n Art\u00edstica, in which a team composed of emerging artists, university students, and single mothers accompanied and directed visitors through the spaces of the activities.\u00a0 And finally, the commitment to different communities gave fruit to the Safari Infantil and Traves\u00edas JUNTOS APARTE; guided mediation tours for youth and adults <span>from<\/span> vulnerable communities \u2014returnees, refugees, migrants, LGBTI, HIV, differently abled\u2014, respectively. Furthermore, our team was strengthened with the incorporation of Venezuelan professionals, adopting the nature of this territory: a singular and united region.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9-LA-FORTALEZA-CARPA-BRILLANTE.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2019 entailed the amplification of the range of<em> JUNTOS APARTE<\/em>, reaching the peripheries of the city, giving access to the most vulnerable and consolidating student participation, adding new institutional and business allies and incorporating international cooperation within the network that makes this endeavour possible. Likewise, the international artistic community as well as regional, national and international <span>media <\/span>were reached, positioning C\u00facuta as a cultural epicentre and civil border.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> programme, along with the city of C\u00facuta, are now a vertex of convergences: the multilateral convergence that gathers together civil society, public administration, diplomacy, international cooperation, business and academia, hinging on an emblematic and transformative project. The convergence of artists, thinkers, and local and global media on the concept of borders and human mobility. The convergence of all social classes, generations, ethnicities, and ways of life transforming us into points of coexistence, respecting diversity, dialogue and integration, in a precise apparatus with the mission and vision of the local government plan, which grants a central role to civic culture as an axis for development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unknown affinities, systems of beliefs, artistic devices and political languages have allowed for the coupling of ideologies and aspirations, of life histories and critical positions, granting the citizens of the frontier a mirror with which to reflect themselves for the first time in dialogue with different global perspectives, transcending the official discourse and participating in a collective process of construction of memory in real time.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/10-CARAVANA-BANDERAS-EN-QUINTA-TERESA.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Empathy and coexistence emerge as <span>the <\/span>social engines <span>of<\/span> an extraordinary enclave, where democracy<span>\u2019s strength<\/span> has been put to the test and where the <span>main <\/span>certainties are <span>its <\/span>potentiality and the will of an engaged network<span>,<\/span> includ<span>ing<\/span> the management<span> teams<\/span> of<em> JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> and <em>BIENALSUR<\/em>,\u00a0the<span> programme<\/span> participants, civil society, media, local entrepreneurs and a good part of the institutional players intervening in the region. The result has been high<span>ly<\/span> positive, proven by the unprecedented <span>amount<\/span> of participation and citizen satisfaction, changes in perception concerning the region on the part of locals and foreigners, and the qualified training of a team of young professionals. More than spokespeople, we are cataly<span>s<\/span>ers of proposals that originate from and are aimed at society, inserting the border in the logics of global, artistic, cultural, economic, and cognitive exchange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> is preparing its third edition for 2021, within the official context of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Colombia. Under the title <em>Reuni\u00f3n Art\u00edstica Grancolombiana<\/em> (Grancolombian Artistic Reunion) we will celebrate the ephemeris of a cancelled future: the second centenary of republican life in our country, with the signature of the Congress of the Constitution of C\u00facuta, the effort of which consolidated the Independence of Spanish America and founded La Gran Colombia, Bol\u00edvar and Santander\u2019s failed dream of a singular Latin America united under one nation<span>. T<\/span>here where, today, the ideological rupture of the Americas is being played out like the newest version of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/11-REPUBLICA-ANDINA.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; title_text=&#8221;11 REPUBLICA ANDINA&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The entire unfolding of activities with the consequent generation of documentation and publications, constitute a preliminary action aimed at another medium and long-term initiative: <em>The Centre for Border Studies <\/em>(CEF), through which C\u00facuta proposes itself as a catalyser of a process of dialogue and a permanent observatory of border phenomena, giving value to the nature and identity of the city and placing it clearly on the global map of culture and knowledge transfer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Postulating that Colombians and Venezuelas, along with the inhabitants of all border areas, have always been and are still today <em>TOGETHER APART<\/em>, we are actively taking on our shared destiny, raising our voices from civil society to visibilize th<span>is<\/span> silenced <b>vertex<\/b> of the public sphere. We propose initiatives focused on research and productivity on the Colombia-Venezuela border through the biennial <em>JUNTOS APARTE Encuentro Internacional de Arte, Pensamiento y Fronteras in C\u00facuta<\/em> as<span> a<\/span> flagship project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the projects of the <em><span>Centre for Border Studies <\/span><\/em><span>(<\/span>CEF<span>)<\/span>, <span>there <\/span>will be the activation of a Colombia-Venezuela Chair in collaboration with the Universidad de Los Andes in San Crist\u00f3bal, the C\u00facuta Corporation <span>Enlaces Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n en Fronteras <\/span>and the Universidad Minuto de Dios. In the mid-term<span>,<\/span> we foresee the development of a cooperative model for the CEF with three historical representatives: the Colegio de la Frontera Norte &#8211; COLEF of Tijuana, Mexico, the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero- UNTREF of Buenos Aires, the managing body of the\u00a0<em>BIENALSUR<\/em>, and the Centro de Estudios Sociales of the Universidad de Coimbra in Portugal, under the direction of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. This is aimed to generate a project which connects cultural studies and border observatories with<span> technologically<\/span><span>\u00a0driven <\/span>programmes<span> covering a<\/span> range <span>of knowledge and action from<\/span> the production of specific theoretical knowledge down to the creation of concrete tools for territorial impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Precisely because art is a state of exception, we respond from the territory of art to the global emergency on our territory. Born <span>of<\/span> the roots of our historical identity, we propose C\u00facuta as an epicentre of debate and the structuring of international thought concerning borders, betting on culture as a tool of convergence, on symbolic capital as a generator of value, and on civic construction as a productive engine.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12-QU%C3%89-FRONTERAS-MENTALES.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Humanizing the hostile forms of <b>socialization<\/b> handed down by decades of violence, fighting against xenophobia and aporophobia, <span>questioning<\/span> habits, constructing a social fabric based on inclusive logic, and resignifying the relationship locals and foreigners have with the region. These are the imminent challenges for the civic construction of the border area. The consequent understanding of a discursive structure on the border is the base of a civil consciousness upon which to build a public sphere in the growing conjuncture. Enhancing such work is decisive to guaranteeing integral programmatic <span>development <\/span>politics, fruit of civic participation and multilaterality. Art and culture constitute the vehicle <span>for<\/span> advanc<span>ing<\/span> in this direction. <em>JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> bets on being <span>a container<\/span> for the convergence of subjectiv<span>I<\/span>ties, committed to civic action at a local scale. In turn, artistic interventions from the global context receive enough <span>attention<\/span> to present new possibilities of tackling the real, of (re)knowing the territory and of forging identity. In this framework, assimilating art and culture as essential variables in the integral matrix of development, combining the production and transference of knowledge with the generation of tools for citizen intervention in the public sphere, has been our leitmotiv. It has also been the base of the shared principles for two initiatives synchronised in time, <em>JUNTOS APARTE<\/em> and <em>BIENALSUR<\/em>, dealing with \u201cArt on the Borders,\u201d \u201cTransits and Migration\u201d and \u201cArt and Urgency\u201d: a long-distance<span>\u00a0trans-border <\/span>train whose route, as well as the new pan-American demography resulting from the Venezuelan exodus, is just beginning.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/juntosaparte.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/13-miedo.png&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; title_text=&#8221;13 miedo&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">COVID-19 has put the contemporary global order, the spirit of the hive, modern capitalism, and our interaction with nature to the test. We are now tasked with the creation of new reflections for an ontology of enclosed space, starting from a global agenda that was declared during quarantine and managed to make everyone in the world, today more than ever, conscious of what it means to be <em>TOGETHER APART<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of the first edition, JUNTOS APARTE set out on a journey far beyond its initial programme. 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