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FREEDOM

by Mirjam Wanner

The idea of this work ‚Freedom’ is quite simple but therefore also very powerful. In media, history, movies, literature i still miss the perspective of a variation of girls and women. This lack of stories, songs, movies, historical awareness, role models is not healthy and very painful and destructive for our souls and our self respect.

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What means freedom to you? Que significa libertad para ti?
Where do you feel the most comfortable? En dondé te sientes mas comoda?

What do you wish for yourself/your female friends/your generation in general? Que quieres para ti y tu generation?

Can you sing me a song (that means something to you)? Puedes cantar me una canzion que es importante para ti?

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We started the workshop with the discussion about how is it to live in Bogota as a young female and male students. How this subject of ‚Freedom’ effects their daily life? And how they would describe their daily life according to ‚Freedom’? Where do they connect to this subject?

The other part of the workshop was, that they showed me the places in which they do feel comortable and we did the interview there or nearby. 

SPATIAL MENTAL MAPPING 

by Bojan Mucko

Mapping the city from the personal perspective is a tactic of the resematization of the familiar, official image of the city. Through the workshop, we'll try to construct a mental map of Bogota seen from different perspectives of the city users (workshop participants). Through the method of semi-structured group interviews, we'll focus on the spatial aspects of the everyday life of those city districts participantes feel connected with.

Official maps usually represent urban policies and regulate space, oftenly excluding zones of social segregation, marginalised or abandoned urban areas. Our map could be docufictional and performative,
yet more realistic then the official one.

The result of the workshop is a walking tour.

Voice of the Silence: Blavatsky Mantra 

by Josip Zanki

Project Voice of the Silence: Blavatsky Mantra is based on workshops, lectures and artistic interdisciplinary research. My intention is to introduce to the participants of the project (student of the University, local artist, volunteers) relation between scared words (mantras and symbolic code of illumination and initiation in Rituals of passage) and image in Tibetan Buddhist paintings. Workshop practical work will include drawing of Buddha head and body based on ancient sutras. Through such experience participants will be involved into meditative state of conscious; in which according to Tibetan Buddhism Buddha’s or divine energy (Tibetan lha) embodied in created image or physical space of participants converting the words into number and number into the image. Theoretical frame (lectures) will be created on relation between image as symbolical form, image as reinterpretation and image as embodiment of objective reality. Interdisciplinary research will be based on collection of scared and a secret word (mantras) which opens alter state of conscious and Trans. In Columbia I will be focused on pre-Columbian religious heritage, catholic eclecticisms and virtual reality shamanism. Together with the participants I will collect mantras in the various spaces working on three models: whispering on ear (as in Free Masonry Three Degree Ritual, and other esoteric groups practice), sending it via e mail (virtual reality) and with writing mantras on praying flags (symbolism of Kailas and universal Holly Mountains), papers and stones. All documentations of this project will be presented and displayed at the end of residence in Bogota. 

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