Screen City Biennial: Latin America represented at The Norwegian Biennial

The 2019 Screen City Biennial, held in Stavanger, Norway, invited numerous Latin American creators to present projects ranging from metaphor to denunciation and analysis, around this edition’s theme: ecology. Several works addressed the need to downplay anthropocentrism and approached diverse problems afflicting the planet today, such as the excesses of fishing and oil industries, the extraction of minerals from the seabed, the depletion of fossil fuels, the deterioration of the natural environment, and the decline in wild animal population—all caused by capitalism’s predatory practices. Operating on three conceptual axes (the virtual, the spiritual, and the material), this Biennial focuses on “the relation between the moving image, sound and architecture, and presents artistic formats that seek to expand the borders of cinematic experience," such as new technologies and digital platforms, AR (augmented reality), video installations, mobile phones apps, and online exhibitions through its website.
In this edition, entitled "Ecologies, lost, found and continued," Latin Americans—such as Jonathas de Andrade, Paulo Tavares, and Luis Roque from Brazil, Andrés Bedoya from Bolivia, Ximena Garrido-Lecca from Peru, Laura Huertas Millán from Colombia, and Michelle-Marie Letelier and Enrique Ramírez from Chile—presented works in different formats and situated in several parts of the city, almost all of them outdoors. These representations are linked to Chilean Daniela Arriado, founder, director and curator (together with Vanina Saracino for this edition) the Screen City Biennial, whose online journal will remain open until January. Over the next few months, part of the Biennial will travel to different cities—with the presence of Michelle-Marie Letelier in Trondheim in March 2020—and later at the Museo Antropológico Martin Gusinde de Puerto Williams, in Magallanes, Chile. Future venues include Canada, Germany, Holland, and Spain.