Urban Interventions

The 2009 urban interventions, curated by Dioscórides Pérez, were performed throughout Bogotá, taking place from Parque de la Independencia to Plaza Bolivár and at various locations along la Séptima. This series provided a means of engaging with spaces and citizens in the urban context. 

To see an extensive digital map of the various routes for the Urban Interventions and information about the artists, click here for the website created by Dioscórides Pérez and his team, and read his Crónica de Acciones Urbanas (in Spanish) as published in e-misférica. 

Dioscórides Pérez (Pereira, 1950) studied theatre and visual arts in the Department of Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has been a professor of drawing and engraving in the department since 1978. He completed graduate studies in engraving- with a fellowship from OEA- in the CREAGRAF at the Universidad de Costa Rica, and advanced studies in traditional Chinese art and Tai Chi at the Beijing Fine Arts Institute (1984-87). He is currently a professor and teaches courses in Body and Space, Performance, Land Art, Taichi, and Chigong. His work has received various acknowledgements, such as First Prize at the Bienal Latinoamericana de Grabado de Costa Rica and (twice) First Prize in drawing at the competition of the K.C.C. Art Gallery in New York. His creative work extends as well to the writing of short stories, articles, and chronicles. For many years he has been dedicated to the work of performance and land art, and also to pursuing the traces of indigenous cultures, especially shamanism and cave art.