Input
Keynote: Paco Calvo
Input: Ayenan Quinchoa Juajibioy, leader Pan-Amazon Collective, Colombia
Followed by a conversation moderated by Yvonne Volkart, IAGN.
Biography
Ayenan Quinchoa Juajibioy was born in Tabanok Bëngbe Uáman Luar Tabanok (English: Our sacred place of origin). He is a member of the Kamëntšá and Inga people, located in the department of PUTUMAYO SUR DE COLOMBIA. He is a student of Materials Engineering at the University of Antioquia, and computer programming technician at CENSA (Antioquia Systems Center). He is an empirical videographer and has collaborated in the documentary films «Rio Arriba» and «AYENAN» made by Felipe Castelblanco and Lydia Zimmermann with Ñambi Rimai Media Collective. He currently works as multimedia content creator for the educational platform of the U de Colombia (University Corporation) in Medellín. Throughout his life Ayenan has been a protector of his territory and the legacy of his ancestors and parents. For millennia the Kamëntšá and Inga cultures have had an intimate contact with the magical plants of their environment, and this connection and sensitive knowledge have motivated Ayenan to shine a light on a collective process of territorial defense because the memory of his culture is being physically and culturally exterminated due to the transformations brought to them by globalization. Ayenan Quinchoa Juajibioy is the current leader of the Pan-Amazon Collective and research partner of the SNSF project “Plants_intelligence. Learning Like a Plant”.
Hosted by Plants, Intelligence, Learning Like A Plant (Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite).
Funded by SNSF and hosted by Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW.