(not) ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE: Artistic residency at a.pass,
Brussels, 2025
https://apass.be/

During this residency, we explored different forms of urban violence, moving between the utopia staged by social movements acting in the streets, the most authentic community expressions of the right to the city, and the dystopia of police, institutional, media, or symbolic violence that cuts through them. We drew constant parallels between our experience in Bogotá (particularly that of El Bicho in Bosa Porvenir, both profoundly utopian and dystopian at once) and the paths, encounters, and conversations we developed during our residency in Brussels.
These themes have been strongly shaped by the violence that grassroots movements in Colombia face when we operate in public space.

On August 15, 2024, during the development of the project La Comunidad de la Pala in Bogotá (see following pages), two young cultural leaders who were members of the network and of the project El Bicho (since 2022), Camilo Sánchez and Camila Espitia, were murdered due to narcotrafficking dynamics, police complicity, and the institutional omission that ignored our warnings for more than two years.
Since then, our research and actions have sought to articulate both universal and deeply local understandings of how urban utopias of rights are staged — and of the dystopian violences that cut across them.