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Format: Video recording
2025


Thanks to:

Botanical Garden, University of Zurich: Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Cámara Leret and team (Juan Carlos Copete Maturana, Kimberly Castro, Dr. Ingrid Olivares, Dr. Luiz Leonardo Saldanha). Federico Roda Fornaguera. Collectivo Mingueros, Salinas Meta: Azucena Olaya, Liliana Olaya, Dora Franco, Juan Alberto Castelblanco, John Alvaro Olaya y Familia, Valeria Castelblanco. Heraldo Vallejo, Quinchoa Juajibioy Family. Daniel Duarte. Plants Intelligence Team: Yvonne Volkart, Rasa Smite and Julia Mensch. Patrice Keenan and Luciano Ibá.

Cast: Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy, Taita Miguel Chicunque and Sofia Salvatierra

Directed by Felipe Castelblanco

Camera: Felipe Castelblanco, Lydia Zimmermann, Camilo Pachon and Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy

Creative Editing: Monica Bustamante and Felipe Castelblanco

Color Grading: Monica Bustamante

Sound Design: Carolina Lucio Arias

Co-investigator: Ayënan Quinchoa Juajibioy. Fabrication: Daniel Duarte and Azucena Olaya.

Institutional credits:

Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath. A work Felipe Castelblanco, realized in the framework of the research project Plants_ Intelligence. Learning like a Plant (2022 - 2025). A research project by Yvonne Volkart, Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch and Rasa Smite. Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted by the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Co-commissioned by the Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and supported by Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Equipment specification:

Two HD projectors for 16:9 Projections.
1 Projector for vertical Projection + tele lens.  3 Brightsign players

Additional funding form:

Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and  Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Tags

Basel Brugmansia arborea (Borrachero Andaki) Colombia Contemporary moving image art Ethnobotanical knowledge Expanded cinema Human–nonhuman relations Human–plant alliances Indigenous cosmologies Indigenous knowledge systems Kamnënstá people Plant Intelligence Plant agency Putumayo Speculative narrative Switzerland Territorial imagination (Amazon–Alps) Time-based media Video Installation Video installation (three channel) werke felipe castelblanco plant_intelligence data-publications

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Plant_Intelligence - Plant_Intelligence - Felipe Castelblanco Plant_Intelligence - Plant_Intelligence Werke catalog - Artistic catalog - Education catalog - HGK catalog - mediathek catalog - Network

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DateAdded
2026-02-02T08:51:15Z
DateModified
2026-03-02T09:33:06Z
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Language
Spanish, EN and GE subtitles
Rights
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
RunningTime
00:17:00
SeriesTitle
Tunda: A Quantic Plant and the Devil’s Breath