abraso  is an artistic collective formed by Camilo Londoño Hernández and Juan Pablo Gavira Bedoya, two Colombian artists living in Germany. Since 2022, we have founded the Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices as a way to study the movements, commotions, relations, tensions, and fictions between the Global South, where we come from, and the Global North, where we reside (temporarily). From here (and there), we aim to highlight the crisis points between the center and geopolitical peripheries, exploring relations of scale in dialogue with various disciplines. 

In our recent career, we have participated in different shows and festivals in South America and Europe with projects like our performative video installation “La altura Indefinida” presented at the Pontificia Javeriana University and granted by the Ministry of Culture in Colombia; or the movie “El Nadador”, as a work in progress selected in spaces like FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires and ENCOURAGE Talents Berlin. Recently, we performed our first residency, hosted by the PARCE Art Initiative in Ghent, Belgium, and supported by the Goethe Institut. Currently, we are collaborating with the Humboldt-Universität to present an interdisciplinary project between arts and sciences at the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival in Berlin next Autumn. 
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abraso / Centro Móvil de Investigación Artística y Prácticas Afectivas Intratropicales
(Mobile Center for Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices)


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01.Infrastructural Rhytms


Humboldt Universität
Berlin / Germany
2025
Connecting Water, Art and Science across bounderies

Supported by Humboldt Universität and Ministry of Culture Colombia

In the proximities of the Spree River in Berlin, Germany, we invited scholars, passersby, and water enthusiasts to symbolically cross the ocean and arrive to the Magdalena River in Colombia.

During the days of the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival, different bodies, languages, and perspectives came together in a performative interview disorienting riverscape imaginaries. The result is a collection of images and sounds as sediments of their speculative and fluid responses.

This exercise took place between the autumn and the winter of 2025, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TA T (Tieranatomisches Theater).

Behind this experimentation:
IRI THESys [Laura Betancur Alarcón, Pauline Münch, Matthias Zarama Giedion]
abraso [ Camilo Londoño Hernández , Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya ] in collaboration with Ricardo Tovar Mateus
Berlin-based artists and writers [Joshua Meissner, Klemens Czurda]

Supported by Humboldt Universität Berlin and Ministry of Culture Colombia

1/2    Architecture in the Netherlands, NAi Publishers

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