00:01I always wanted to be in art.
00:05In my house I always wanted to be a small space where I took papers and drawing.
00:13I lived in Medellín many years and there in the first house I had,
00:19I had a space of work.
00:21It was not like a workshop, as one can see today,
00:25with more complex and more vivid.
00:28It was a place where you would take the living space to work.
00:35So that was always my interest and my need.
00:40That's why I do it in reality.
00:42I have been working for a long time already in art,
00:47all my life.
00:49But with the resources to work outside
00:54when you didn't have all the conditions to do it internally,
00:59until I decided to get this space.
01:09Thank you very much.
01:12Thank you very much.
01:42I've always wanted to take a job.
01:45I've always wanted to take a job.
01:45in different opportunities.
01:47Here in Bogotá I moved.
01:50I had small workshops from one side to the other.
01:53But at some point I came to live in this sector.
01:55and I was in the process of destruction of the houses and building them in buildings.
02:03And I wanted to make a proposal to an architect or an engineer
02:06to be able to adapt to an apartment to a studio
02:10and to be able to come here really comfortable to work.
02:15And to bring work and to be able to have it.
02:17because of many years of work,
02:20there are a lot of things,
02:22there are a lot of things,
02:23there are a lot of technology.
02:24I needed a space,
02:26that at this moment I was very narrow,
02:28but generous.
02:30So I managed to get this apartment
02:33and we adapted it.
02:35That we removed all these rooms,
02:38and things like this,
02:40that interruptions
02:41the future possible needs.
02:45So I put it to the plant that there was in the apartment
02:51to the service of a possible studio
02:54and that they did not remove all the walls of an apartment
02:58because at some point there would have to sell it,
03:00or leave it,
03:01or change it,
03:02and that it would not be inhabilitated.
03:15I do that for the space to serve
03:19for some purpose
03:21that I have had all these years here in this studio.
03:24So that it is very accessible,
03:27that the tables have wheels,
03:30that the spaces can be transformed,
03:32that the room can be removed,
03:33that the room can be removed,
03:34that the room can be projected,
03:36that in these curtains
03:38I can make projections simultaneously.
03:40It is a workshop
03:42that is very experimental.
03:45So,
03:46I do not come to the studio
03:48thinking that I am charged
03:50of decisions
03:52and that then
03:53those decisions
03:54will be affected by the space.
03:57I do that the space
03:59to be facilitated
04:00so that all these decisions
04:02really materialize.
04:04One day of work
04:05here in the workshop
04:06is programed.
04:07When I do not have
04:09programing with audio editors
04:10or video
04:12I am completely
04:13out of the programing.
04:15I am the one who programing,
04:16I am the one who decide
04:18in things
04:19that I have in the way
04:21to take decisions
04:22in the future
04:23or to think
04:25a work that is in the process
04:27and keep working
04:28alone
04:29without the time
04:31with the editor.
04:33So
04:34when I have the editor
04:36it is a meeting
04:37that is
04:38at the end
04:39the editor
04:40we are working
04:40a little bit
04:41and we are moving
04:42on some issues
04:43and I keep working
04:45with other things
04:47and so on.
04:48But
04:49it is like
04:50its own
04:50and its own
04:51and its own
04:51and its own
04:52.
04:56If it is in the morning
04:57it is from 9 to 1
04:59and in the afternoon
04:59it is from 2 to 6
05:01or 3 to 6
05:03or 3 to 6
05:04I do not like
05:06having more
05:07than 3 or 4
05:08hours of editing
05:09you know
05:09like
05:10like
05:10everything
05:15took too long
05:24time
05:27it is time for
05:28a second video
05:30it takes a lot
05:31of time
05:31right now
05:32because now
05:33I have a better machine
05:34and we have
05:35very good programs
05:36and things flow very well, very fast, very solvent editors, very good.
05:43I have a editor now that they call GOS and he is super precise,
05:51we are editing 10 projections simultaneously,
05:55so that means having a good head and a good technical management to be able to do it.
06:05When I have a problem in which I am working,
06:08because things are not happening from one day to another,
06:12there is a issue, a concern,
06:15for example, I have been working for a long time
06:17on the issue of recruitment of children and young people in our conflict,
06:26so this puts me in front of ways of working in different ways.
06:31So there are moments in which I work with the sound,
06:35the voices of children,
06:37or I work with images,
06:39and we went to the jungle to work there,
06:43to do a really direct manifestation in the jungle,
06:47with women who protested by their loss of their children.
06:51So that has other material,
06:54I look at that material, I open it, I'm printing, I'm making lines,
07:00I'm making lines, I'm making lines,
07:01in all the works, during the creation process.
07:05So, everything depends on each work,
07:07and each work is completely different.
07:10I have no idea of working that way,
07:13because every process has very difficult requirements, because nothing is easy in this way,
07:20and every time you start a project, it starts from zero, completely.
07:25With the experience, a little bit like a experience that is going to be acumulated,
07:30of what is worth, what is not worth, what is worth, what is worth, what is worth,
07:33or not, well, yes, it is going to be this, but there is to start from zero in research,
07:38in creative processes, in being very free, to let go and let go, let go, let go,
07:45things that can be interesting in the project,
07:50so there is no way to answer, it is unique.
08:02The space allows me, and the sizes, and the conditions that I am creating,
08:08to be able to hold up some papers and be able to put images that are building,
08:15that I believe that is in the work, that is going to be in the work,
08:19or that I can make it happen when I meet with the real place.
08:24It's been a long time, it's been a long time, it's been a long time,
08:29but as we are already concluding the work, we are making sound and video editing,
08:38we need to project to refer to sound and be able to read what is going to happen in the
08:46place.
08:46So, now we are doing another kind of tour with the space,
08:55to make all the possible simulations that are going to happen in the district archive,
09:02where we are going to have the work.
09:03comfort, comfort, coffee, music, and nothing else,
09:09because it is a place that is completely silent,
09:13that is not penetrated by the family life,
09:17or by the everyday life to another level.
09:20So, the only thing I need is a good temperature,
09:24and a minimum company, like I just said, of music and drinks,
09:32not alcoholic drinks, but of other types.
