Amazonian Transdisciplinary Residency
Interspecies Fractal Networks
Interspecies Fractal Networks
This is a residency in the Amazon designed to foster encounters from transdisciplinary perspectives that activate pathways of interspecies listening and reflection in the rainforest, as an action to sustain life.
INTERACCIONES
Walks to activate interspecies communication // Questions and dialogues on the complex encounter between ancestral and Western arts and sciences // Meetings of languages and knowledges around care, medicine, and nourishment // thought laboratory on fractal networks of relationships that sustain life.
INFORMATIVE MEETING
July 25 / 8 AM
Hour Bogotá > Session de Zoom
July 25 / 7 PM
Hour Bogotá > Session de Zoom
Dates
From October 26 to November 9, 2025. You may choose to stay between 8 and 15 days within this period. + Info via email.
PARTICIPANTs
Who can participate? Residency in English and Spanish. Open to people of all ages and disciplines.
Spots
15 participants – registration fee required
2 participants from Vaupés – fully funded (scholarships)
COSTS*
one week
Starting at 1300 USD
two week
Starting at 2350 USD
* The cost varies depending on accommodation.
Includes: Round-trip airfare Bogotá–Mitú–Bogotá, all meals, lodging, river journeys and forest walks with expert guides, local transportation, access to indigenous communities, and experimental lab.
-
REYNEL ORTEGA
KUMU
Traditional Authority and Knowledge Holder – Yuruparí Curator and Member of the Indigenous Council of the Pirá Paraná River
He serves as a Yuruparí Curator, researcher, and traditional knowledge holder for the Cultural Ecological Calendar, the Governance of the World from the Maloka and the Chagra.
For over 30 years, he has been a leader and guide of ACAIPI, supporting indigenous cultural processes related to governance, health, education, and environment.
Photo: Miguel Winograd
-
BÁRBARA SANTOS
ARTISTA
Visual Artist and Independent Researcher. Her long-term collective projects weave together art and technology guided by ancestral knowledge. She has extensive experience in the Colombian Amazon, particularly in the regions of Vaupés and Putumayo.
She is the creator of the video installations “Quiasma: audiovisual experience” (2003), “Delegar el sentido” (2017–2019), and “Oro Tapado” (2017–2025). She co-directed the audiovisual content for “Sala Memoria y Nación” at the National Museum of Colombia (2014). And author of The Healing as Technology (IDARTES, 2019), director of Bosquesinas Campesinas (Peace Fund, DUE 2021), co-editor of the book “El Territorio de los Jaguares de Yurupari” (ACAIPI–GAIA, 2015), and of the interactive book “Madres de Semilla” (ACAIPI, 2024).
She coordinated the Muisca Sacred Sites System (Muisca Councils – Bogotá Planning Department, 2023) and served as advisor for “Casas Bioculturales desde la Palabra de Origen” (Ministerio de Culturas 2024).
-
ALEJANDRO CAMPUZANO
BIÓLOGO
Walker of living territories, he has dedicated his life to understanding the deep relationships between humans, animals, plants, and spirits in the Amazon rainforest. He is co-founder and steward of El Chundú Nature Reserve, a space for care, learning, and connection in the heart of Vaupés.
His work moves between photography, documentary, storytelling, and attentive listening, seeking to reveal what connects and sustains life. For over a decade, he has lived in the forest, where he´s been learning from and with Indigenous communities to read the territory as a complex, sensitive, and meaningful system.
CONTACTO / Contact us
barbarasantosv@gmail.com
kampu420@gmail.com
(+57) 3212438239
(+57) 3117495787
Kilómetro 3 vía Mitú - Monfort
Reserva Natural el Chundú
Mitú - Vaupés
Colombia
https://www.elchundu.com/