Sergio Montero Bravo

Chile, Sweden (residence), Sweden (citizenship) °1980
research interests: artistic research, art, design, architecture, ecologies, rural encounters, education
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Sergio Montero Bravo is an artist, architect, designer, researcher and associate professor at Konstfack University of Art, Craft & Design. He is also an INLAND member – an artist organization and one of the Lumbung members of Documenta 15. In his practice, he explores oppositional narratives to the anthropocentric discourse in order to re-establish lost relationships and find ways away from global warming. His work focuses on installations that territorializes artistic processes into places intertwined with institutions and academic disciplines as well as non-academic fields together with communities. The objective is to advance knowledge on how artistic interventions can make narratives that inspire to mutual beneficial relationships with nonhuman worlds visible.

 

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Sergio Montero Bravo är verksam inom fälten konst, formgivning och arkitektur. Han är också verksam inom forskning som lektor på Konstfack och I konstnärskollektivet INLAND, som just nu är aktivt som en av flera Lumbung medlemmar under Documenta 15. I sin praktik utforskar han motberättelser till den antropocentriska diskursen i syfte att återupprätta försvunna relationer och hitta fler vägar bort från globala uppvärmningen. Hans arbete fokuserar på att bygga installationer som territorialiserar konstnärliga processer i livsmiljöer där discipliner, institutioner, samhällen och ekologier möts. Målet är att utveckla kunskap om konstnärliga processers förmåga att synliggöra berättelser som inspirerar till mer ömsesidiga förhållanden till icke mänskliga världar.

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  • Territorial Art, Design & Architecture (2022) author(s): Sergio Montero Bravo connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    This collaborative and cross-sectoral project addresses places, environments and spaces beyond mere functional urban endeavors. The project explores possibilities that become visible when public space is viewed from perspectives beyond the urban norm. The aim is to restore lost rural relations and to search for ways to leave the anthropocentric narrative. In the past, densification of cities has been considered synonymous with sustainable development, creativity and innovation. However, a one-sided urban focus leads to disarmament of rural habitats, and dissociation from human interdependence with non-human nature. Today, adaptation to global warming is dependent on the survival of the rural. Therefore, this artistic research project is primarily informed by activities in rural environments together with species and ecologies other than human and urban. The goal is to investigate how art, design and architectural interventions can foster oppositional narratives to anthropocentricity. What I present in this exposition are my most recent collaborations and a journey of professional metamorphosis to reach this goal. The result is a series of ongoing projects and processes that demonstrate how I explore places of communality, togetherness and mutual beneficial interdependency between species.
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