Angie Ariza Porras
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- Apr 1
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//Sociologist, Master's Degree in Culture of Peace, Master's Degree in Democracy and Government
PhD candidate in Arts and Education at the University of Granada (Spain)
//April-May 2025
Perhaps what defines me most at the moment is being a humanist mediator. Every day, as part of my work, I look into the eyes of the pain and cruelty of war and the dignity of those who resist it. I find in the light, in the movement, in the forest, in the river and in the very act of creating the reasons to celebrate life and its poetry once again.
I am co-founder of Casa Rumi in Vélez (Santander), a land with the scent of guava. Casa Rumi is home to owls, turkeys and stone curlews; it seeks to be a little piece of native forest in the face of livestock expansion and dreams of also being a cultural ecosystem.
In terms of academic training, I am a sociologist with a Master's degree in the Culture of Peace, a Master's degree in Democracy and Government and a PhD candidate in Arts and Education at the University of Granada (Spain). I have explored the languages of photography, theatre, dance and ceramics to escape from reason and immerse myself in metaphor.
I arrived at El Boga inspired by Manuela del Alma, not knowing that today I would thank her by looking at the Magdalena river that she loved so much.
Residency at El Boga
My stay at El Boga arose from a vital impulse to create ‘Visual cartographies of Momposino joy’, an opportunity to honour those passages that are associated with enjoyment in this little piece of Bolívar. In this way I will extend an invitation to the people of Mompox to map, through images, the physical or intangible places that they associate with joy. Furthermore, these days at El Boga are also an opportunity to learn from the steps of this residency as a cultural refuge and thus continue to build our own path with Casa Rumi.
Contact
@__nomade_
@Casarumi
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