Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist • Curator • Educator •

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		<title>Exhibition &#124; Coca, Palabra-Mundo an exhibition to vindicate the sacred, political and cultural value of the coca plant at the UN</title>
				
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Coca, Palabra-Mundo at the UN. /Photos: Mariana Reyes, Alejandro Neira y Alejandro Jaramillo&#38;nbsp;︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;
This curatorial research project seeks to highlight the coca plant's mystical, political, medicinal, and nutritional value through contemporary art. 

	COCA, PALABRA-MUNDO AT THE UN

Curators: Liana, a curatorial research collective formed by Colombian artists and researchers Angélica Cuevas (Medellín, 1988),&#38;nbsp; Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres (Bogotá, 1991) and Giselly Mejía (Támesis, 1990).Artists: Tatiana Arocha, Pajarita Caucana (Daniela Rubio, Maria Alejandra Torres and Mónica Suárez), Aimema Uai, Sandra Díaz, Andrés Domínguez, Estefanía García Pineda, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Edinson Quiñones, Anyi Ballesteros (Agroarte), NOMASMETAFORAS (Julián Dupont and Clara Melniczuk) with&#38;nbsp; Consejo de Mayores del Territorio Ancestral Kweth Kina &#38;amp; Consejo de Mayores UAIIN-CRIC, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Ricardo Cortés.&#38;nbsp;
My role: Curator, researcher, educator, strategic communicator, and producer.&#38;nbsp;


Language:&#38;nbsp; Spanish and English.
Year: November, 2024&#60;img width="1858" height="1014" width_o="1858" height_o="1014" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19ae950104c7ea84f450032db0de1de4d047cee0ff77c656c7ef92c7ecc68667/cocaworlds.png" data-mid="224200691" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19ae950104c7ea84f450032db0de1de4d047cee0ff77c656c7ef92c7ecc68667/cocaworlds.png" /&#62;

	In the summer of 2024, we decided to work with the Government of Colombia on the realization of Coca, Palabra-Mundo, an exhibition co-sponsored by the Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations and financed by the Open Society Foundations. The exhibition was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from November 3 to 8, 2024.
The show invited the international community to reflect on the benefits of the coca plant for Indigenous and peasant communities and to question the historical mistake made by the United Nations in 1961 when it classified coca as a narcotic.

For over 8,000 years, the coca leaf has been an integral part of the life and cultures of Indigenous and peasant communities in the Andean-Amazonian region. However, this sacred plant has been stigmatized and criminalized internationally by being equated with cocaine. The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs listed the coca leaf as a narcotic, which led to decades of public policies focused on persecuting both the plant and the communities that rely on it. This historical and colonial error has caused immense harm to millions of people, fragmented entire communities, and resulted in irreversible environmental damage.

Coca, Palabra-Mundo sought to challenge and shift the negative perceptions surrounding coca, reclaiming the right of Indigenous and peasant communities to use this sacred plant. More than a symbol of life, health, and spirituality, coca is a profound source of identity, knowledge, and connection for millions in South America. The exhibition invited visitors to reflect on the historical biases that have demonized coca and highlighted the urgent need to correct a deeply entrenched misunderstanding with far-reaching consequences.

The exhibition featured the work of eight artists, many of whom were born or work in regions where coca cultivation is integral to the local culture and economy. Their pieces offer both ancestral and contemporary perspectives, shaped by their personal histories and the experiences of the Indigenous communities with whom they are connected. In these works, coca is portrayed as a being with agency—an element that facilitates communication, political organization, and harmony within communities and territories.


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Coca, Palabra-Mundo at the UN. /Photos: Mariana Reyes, Alejandro Neira y Alejandro Jaramillo ︎︎︎ 
	
Public Programming:
Guided Tours at the United Nations:A bilingual (Spanish and English) tour led by the curators, offering deeper insights into the themes of the exhibition and the significance of coca.Panel Discussion at the UN: Beyond Declassification – Detoxifying Narratives Around the Coca Plant:A conversation to challenge the hegemonic negative connotations associated with coca, which have persisted for decades due to misinformation and prejudice, and continue to fuel violence and injustice across South America.Dialogue with Colombian Artists – Art, Coca, and Drug Policies:A discussion with Colombian artists who use the coca leaf as a medium to transform drug policies and reshape the narratives surrounding drugs.Screening – Coca Vision:A screening of a photographic series and two video art pieces created by artists featured in the exhibition. The screening was followed by a conversation reflecting on the themes and concepts explored in their works.Coca Watercolor Workshop: Tinta Dulce – Poetics of the Future:A hands-on watercolor workshop using coca-based inks, led by the Colombian collective Ginger Blonde and curator Giselly Mejía. This workshop invited participants to imagine and illustrate potential futures for the coca plant, exploring its cultural significance and transformative potential.After its presentation at the United Nations, the exhibition was hosted at the Open Society Foundations headquarters in New York from November 11, 2024, to January 15, 2025.Press:&#38;nbsp;
El Espectador Newspaper: Colombia se toma sede de Naciones Unidas para quitarle el estigma a la hoja de cocaLa Silla Vacía: DESESTIGMATIZAR LA COCA DESDE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS - La Silla VacíaLa Tempestad Magazine - México &#124;&#38;nbsp;DESINTOXICAR LA NARRATIVA DE LA COCAGalería La Cometa: Coca, word-world: an exhibition to vindicate the sacred, political and cultural value of the coca plant Ministry of Culture - Colombia: Exposición en Naciones Unidas reivindica los usos tradicionales, el valor científico y la importancia espiritual la hoja de cocaColombian Presidency: Colombia presenta exposición en Naciones Unidas en Nueva York para reivindicar el valor sagrado, político y cultural de la planta de coca</description>
		
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		<title>Branding &#124;  ESCR- Net New Visual Identity</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:54:22 +0000</pubDate>

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ESCR-Net New Visual Identity /Images: Le Apéritif ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;


We designers and communicators worked together to create a new visual identity that strengthens ESCR-Net's ability to communicate its mission to promote human and environmental rights. 

	ESCR-Net RebrandingDesign Studio:
Le Apéritif

Strategic Communicators: -Angélica Cuevas and Esther de la Rosa


Languages:&#38;nbsp; Spanish, French, Arabic and English.

Year: 2024
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	As the Communications Coordinator for the International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), I proposed and led the rebranding of an organization that unites 300 social movements, human rights organizations, and advocates from 80 countries, collaborating to build coalitions, inform decisions, and shape structures that ensure human rights. 
This was the first time the organization had undertaken such a project, resulting in a new, more powerful way of communicating better aligned with the NGO's mission.

This is a high-impact project, as it not only changed the external perception of how the network communicates, but also transformed the staff's perception of how ESCR-Net can innovate in its approach to communicating human rights. The redesign was commissioned to Le Apéritif Studio (Spain), and together with them and the Communications Director of the Network, we conducted internal workshops to produce the new voice and branding briefing documents that informed the process of conceptualizing this powerful new visual identity.

Le Apéritif decided to create a flexible visual identity and universe that reflects the diversity of viewpoints within ESCR-Net, which is essential for creating more just conditions for societies and communities around the world.

The new identity draws inspiration from various cartographic projections of the world, proposing a dynamic logo that transforms. This graphic system conveys both the collective power to shape the world and the diversity of perspectives within ESCR-Net.

The new identity, brighter and bolder, honors the communities worldwide that resist unjust systems and helps amplify their collective narratives. 


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ESCR-Net New Visual Identity /Images: Le Apéritif ︎︎︎ </description>
		
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		<title>Branding &#124;  Flora Fauna Funga for NYU Law School</title>
				
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ESCR-Net New Visual Identity /Images: Le Apéritif ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;


In 2021, I invited designer Daniel Bayona to collaboratively develop the visual identity and initial communication strategy for the Fauna Flora Funga initiative. This was a consultancy for the NYU School of Law, the Fungi Foundation of Chile, and mycologist Merlin Merlin Sheldrake. 

	Website: https://faunaflorafunga.org/
Client: NYU School of LawLead and Strategic Communicator: Angélica Cuevas

Senior Designer: Daniel Bayona&#38;nbsp;
Languages: English.
Year: 2021


	I was brought on to create the launch campaign for the Fauna Flora Funga initiative at NYU School of Law. My approach included recommending the development of a brand identity and conducting workshops to pinpoint essential messages that would enhance the initiative’s manifesto. These workshops led to the creation of a striking visual identity, which has increased awareness of the necessity for greater investment in fungal species research and improved international protection frameworks.

As part of the campaign, we increased Fauna Flora Funga’s social media following to over 9,000 people and launched a petition in support of the initiative. This effort garnered the participation of more than 3,500 scientists, environmentalists, mycologists, biologists, botanists, and policymakers, all dedicated to raising awareness and advocating for the recognition of the fungal kingdom’s importance.In this project, I served as the project leader, taking on responsibilities such as project management and strategic coordination. I led the conceptualization of the initiative's website and its launch across all digital platforms. Additionally, I co-designed the branding workshops and identified the key messages for the campaign's launch.Fauna Flora Funga is led by renowned scientists such as Giuliana Furci, director of the Fungi Foundation in Chile, and Merlin Sheldrake author of the bestselling book Entangled Life. Through scientific expeditions and documentary productions, they have effectively promoted science communication and raised global awareness of the importance of fungi


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Flora Fauna Funga New Visual Identity</description>
		
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		<title>Curatorial Proyect: COCAWORLDS</title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Curatorial-Proyect-COCAWORLDS</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:18:23 +0000</pubDate>

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COCAWORLDS at Taller Boricua, Harlem NYC, March - May 2024. /Photos: Beto Paredes&#38;nbsp;︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;
This curatorial research project seeks to highlight the coca plant's mystical, political, medicinal, and nutritional value through contemporary art. 

	COCAWORLDS

Curators: Liana, a curatorial research collective formed by Colombian artists and researchers Angélica Cuevas (Medellín, 1988),&#38;nbsp; Juan Pablo Caicedo Torres (Bogotá, 1991) and Giselly Mejía (Támesis, 1990).Artists: Tatiana Arocha, Pajarita Caucana (Daniela Rubio, Maria Alejandra Torres and Mónica Suárez), Aimema Uai, Sandra Díaz, Andrés Domínguez, Estefanía García Pineda, Miguel Ángel Rojas, Edinson Quiñones, Anyi Ballesteros (Agroarte), NOMASMETAFORAS (Julián Dupont and Clara Melniczuk) with&#38;nbsp; Consejo de Mayores del Territorio Ancestral Kweth Kina &#38;amp; Consejo de Mayores UAIIN-CRIC, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Ricardo Cortés. 
The project has been carried out with the contribution of researchers from the Colombia Studies Group in New York:&#38;nbsp; Andrés Ávila, Natalia Mahecha, Melody Feo Sverko, Benjamín Garrido, Juan José Guzmán, María Fernanda Pulido, the designer Sebastián Páez, photographer Alejandro Jaramillo, and the Murui elder Emilio Fiagama Jainuama. 

My role: Curator, researcher, educator, strategic communicator, and producer.&#38;nbsp;


Language:&#38;nbsp; Spanish and English.
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	Since 2023, I have co-led Liana Collective with Juan Pablo Caicedo and Giselly Mejía, developing COCAWORLDS to shift dominant narratives and envision coca futures from New York. The project brings together 14+ transdisciplinary artists, Indigenous authorities, and scholars who reframe coca as a plant of power, medicine, and food—against the extractive and punitive violence that has harmed its cultural and spiritual meanings, degraded its territories, and disrupted the lives of Indigenous and peasant communities across Latin America.
COCAWORLDS aims to expand and highlight the complexity of a plant that has been reduced to mere raw material for narcotic production through three central themes: Coca - The Plant, Coca Politics, and Coca Wor(l)ds.
Coca - The Plant examines the plant’s qualities and agency as a living entity, delving into its physical, chemical, and sensory attributes. The use of coca as food and medicine, along with its role as a creative tool, are key concerns of this section. Coca Politics scrutinizes and challenges the tensions arising from the exploitation of the coca leaf for cocaine production and the labeling of the plant as an 'enemy' in the context of the War on Drugs. Finally, Coca Wor(l)ds explores the cultural and spiritual facets associated with the coca plant, emphasizing the Indigenous knowledge systems and worldviews connected to its harvesting and everyday uses.COCAWORLDS reveals a diverse array of geopolitical tensions, Indigenous healing practices, origin stories, prophetic abilities, cultural artifacts, and mystical connections between coca, language, nature, and divinity, all aimed at transforming narratives and speculating on the future of this sacred plant.


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March 1, 2024, ⁠in our inaugural exhibition in New York, Liana presented COCAWORLDS at Taller Boricua in Harlem and featured Colombian artists Edinson Quiñones (Popayán, 1982), Anyi Ballesteros (El Tambo, 1998) and the NOMASMETAFORAS collective formed by Julian Dupont (Popayán, 1985) and Clara Melniczuk (La Ciotat, 1991). Through photography, video, objects, and textiles, the artists propose three perspectives for healing historical and collective wounds surrounding the stigmatization of the coca plant.</description>
		
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		<title>Exhibition &#124;  Ríografías del Baudó - Médicos Sin Frontera LATAM</title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Exhibition-Riografias-del-Baudo-Medicos-Sin-Frontera-LATAM</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:31:32 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

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Riografias del Baudó, Artbo, Bogotá Colombia, September 2024. Photos: MSF&#38;nbsp; ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;Exploring themes of confinement, violence and resilience, Riografías del Baudó is a photographic exhibition highlighting the harsh realities indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities faced in Colombia's Chocó region. Through Fernanda Pineda's powerful photography, the exhibition aims to raise awareness of the crisis in the region and its traditional healing practices. 

	Riografías del Baudó. ¿Cómo se cura un territorio herido?

Curatorial team: Angélica Cuevas and Diana Rodríguez.Client:  Médicos Sin Fronteras (Doctors Without Borders) LATAM
Artist: Fernanda Pineda 

Language:&#38;nbsp; Spanish&#38;nbsp;&#60;img width="7008" height="4672" width_o="7008" height_o="4672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f8b59c78f1e4a23dc06ab6a53d0b7ea896ab94285b0fd4ad4af66ec0828fd17/_DSC8841.jpg" data-mid="224196285" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f8b59c78f1e4a23dc06ab6a53d0b7ea896ab94285b0fd4ad4af66ec0828fd17/_DSC8841.jpg" /&#62;

Riografías del Baudó, a photographic project carried out in collaboration with the photographer Fernanda Pineda, documenting the situation of the Afro and Embera communities of Alto Baudó, was open to the public at Artbo and the García Márquez Cultural Centre in Bogotá in September and October 2024.

	In July 2024,  Médicos Sin Fronteras (Doctors Without Borders) LATAM commissioned me to create a photographic exhibition that would communicate the reality faced by Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities confined by the armed conflict in the Chocó region of Colombia.

For this project, I curated the images of photographer Fernanda Pineda and, together with museographer Diana Rodríguez, we collaborated on the conceptualization and design of the exhibition. I reviewed an archive of over 500 materials and developed the curatorial guidelines for the show. The exhibition opened in Bogotá in September during Artbo, Colombia's most important art fair, and was later presented at the García Márquez Cultural Center in downtown Bogotá.

The exhibition immersed visitors in the reality of the communities in Alto Baudó, where forced confinement, the presence of armed actors, and state abandonment had created humanitarian gaps and deep vulnerability for the Afro-descendant and Indigenous populations living in these territories. Through a poetic visual language, which included immersive elements that captured the audience's attention, the exhibition documented the landscapes of confinement and the region’s resilience practices. Riografías del Baudó sought to raise awareness among the Colombian and Latin American public about the violence that prevented these communities from living in peace and highlight the traditional healing practices in Alto Baudó. With Riografías del Baudó, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) brought the complex reality of life in remote and violent areas closer to Colombian and Latin American visitors, where MSF provided essential health care programs.

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Riografias del Baudó, Artbo, Bogotá Colombia, September 2024. /Fotos: MSF</description>
		
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		<title>Community Lead Research &#124; Comedor de Quelites Mixtecos: A Cooking Zine Series</title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Community-Lead-Research-Comedor-de-Quelites-Mixtecos-A-Cooking-Zine</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:06:01 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

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Photo: Giselly Mejía&#38;nbsp;︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;
Oral history and zine series project highlighting the stories of Indigenous Mixtec women, sharing their connection to plants, migration, and resistance.

	Comedor de Quelites Mixtecos - Mixtec Cooking Zines

Team: Liana Collective - (Angélica Cuevas, Giselly Mejía, Juan Pablo Caicedo) and Voces Collective.
September 2023- May 2024

Approaches: Experimental Pedagogies, Oral History, Ethnography, Transmedia &#38;amp; Digital Storytelling, Social Justice,

My role: Researcher, Product Designer, Educator, &#38;nbsp;


Language:&#38;nbsp; Spanish and Mixtec.


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	As part of our residency, Las Yerbas Apothecary, we collaborated with Voces, a collective of Mixteco migrant women from Guerrero, Mexico, who work in New York City to preserve Mixtec knowledge, language, and ways of life. This ongoing partnership began with a series of oral history interviews where Voces members—Mary José Prudente, Eufemia Neri, Zenaida Simón, Margarita Romualdo, and Paulina Mendoza—shared their experiences as Indigenous migrant women. Through these interviews, they recounted their memories of cooking, healing with plants, and navigating their histories of migration and resistance within patriarchal systems.

The project documented a series of traditional recipes that highlight the Mixtec women’s unique ways of communicating with plants. These plants are integral to their practices—used to season food, create home remedies, and harmonize both daily living spaces and spiritual ceremonies.

The collaboration culminated in the creation of five recipe zines—one dedicated to each member of Voces—and a public dining room activation at Canal Projects in October 2023. The dining table became a vibrant space for conversation about the journey of plants that travel with immigrants and the deep ancestral ties Voces maintains to native herbs and traditional wisdom. These discussions illuminated how plants are not only essential for cooking but also serve as tools for healing and maintaining cultural identity across borders.
The Result
The zine series integrates the following sections:
Early LifeRelationships with Family and the TerritoryGrowing Up as a Woman in Rural MexicoHistory of Migration from Guerrero to the United StatesTraditions and CultureMotherhoodTraditional RecipeRecipe Plant BiosVoces Statement

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For this project, I chose oral history methodology as the foundation for our work with Voces, as its principles of consent, trust, and “do no harm” aligned perfectly with our approach. I developed discussion guides to shape our dialogues and created a detailed consent form that outlined the nature of our interactions, how the data would be handl

We conducted two-hour conversations with each of the five members of the Voces collective. From the transcriptions and thematic analysis of these conversations, we developed the structure of the zines.
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ComedoresSince plants are at the heart of this project, we hosted two “comedores” where food was made and shared with plenty of generosity. The first one was for the closing event of the Las Yerbas Apothecary installation, where we invited the public to try the five recipes from the zine. The second was to wrap up the project in the summer of 2024. We all brought food, shared a meal, and took the time to thank each other for the collaboration. &#60;img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62e7ef201d8633ff933e6330225edd17df0a9b83d076c6c0770c2783b31a28e5/Comedor-de-Quelites.jpg" data-mid="224179957" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62e7ef201d8633ff933e6330225edd17df0a9b83d076c6c0770c2783b31a28e5/Comedor-de-Quelites.jpg" /&#62;


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		<title>Curatorial Residency &#124; NYC &#124;“Las Yerbas” Apothecary</title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Curatorial-Residency-NYC-Las-Yerbas-Apothecary</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2023 04:22:51 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

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	Research residency space for collaborative learning and experimentation around plant-human relationships and artistic practices based on sacred plants.


	Las Yerbas Apothecary
Curatorial Research Residency by
Liana_____CollectiveCanal Projects, NYC July to October 2023
Themes: Plant intelligences, Futures Design, Decolonizing plant wisdom, Healing Plants.

Approaches: Anthropology and Design approaches, Experimental Pedagogies, Art Dialogues, Speculative Design,&#38;nbsp;Curatorial Practices, Action Research approaches. 

My role: Educator, Facilitator, Researcher, Designer, Storyteller, Strategic Communicator.

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	“Las Yerbas” Apothecary was a space dedicated to interspecies research focused on the power of plants. During our residency at Canal Projects (June-October, 2023), Liana, our Curatorial Research Collective, facilitated opportunities to foster the exchange of knowledge between plants and humans through multidisciplinary interactions with artists, Indigenous sabedores (knowledge keepers), and members of the local community.
Half traditional herb shop and half cabinet of curiosities, the "Las Yerbas” Apothecary showcased aesthetic and cultural contrasts between Indigenous medicinal knowledge and Western alchemical practices that arose from the fusion of exotic elements and substances sourced from other realms.
Through our research and pedagogical exercises in collective knowledge-building, we aimed to broaden the understanding of sacred plants and advocated for their mystical, political, and medicinal significance among New York City's local and diasporic communities.
About Liana Collective
At Liana, we are a multidisciplinary collective led by Colombian artists and social researchers: Angélica Cuevas (MA in Anthropology, The New School), Juan Pablo Caicedo (MA in Arts and Politics, NYU), and Giselly Mejía (MFA in Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons). Our collective explores the intricate relationships between humans and plants, as well as artistic practices rooted in medicinal and sacred plants.
Our mission is to broaden people’s understanding of plants as active entities with agency. Our work passionately advocates for the mystical, political, and medicinal significance of sacred plants, which continuously nurture and strengthen many diasporic and local communities.
During our residency, we will create an experimental space for collaborative learning, focusing on the healing properties of plants used by local and diasporic communities within the city. 


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Images: Alejandro Jaramillo and Angélica Cuevas


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From left to right: Angélica Cuevas, Giselly Mejía and Juan Pablo Caicedo.

	About Liana Collective
At Liana, we are a multidisciplinary collective led by Colombian artists and social researchers: Angélica Cuevas (MA in Anthropology, The New School), Juan Pablo Caicedo (MA in Arts and Politics, NYU), and Giselly Mejía (MFA in Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons). Our collective explores the intricate relationships between humans and plants, as well as artistic practices rooted in medicinal and sacred plants.

Our mission is to broaden people’s understanding of plants as active entities with agency. Our work passionately advocates for the mystical, political, and medicinal significance of sacred plants, which continuously nurture and strengthen many diasporic and local communities.

During our residency, we will create an experimental space for collaborative learning, focusing on the healing properties of plants used by local and diasporic communities within the city.

This residency involved a special collaboration with artist Tatiana Arocha who brought to the residency pieces from her installations Impending Beauty, 2017 and Decocainizing Coca: Challenging Western Narratives of a Sacred Plant, 2023.

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		<title>Strategic Comms &#124; Decolonizing Conservation in the Amazon: Área Ecológica Indígena </title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Strategic-Comms-Decolonizing-Conservation-in-the-Amazon-Area</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:59:41 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://angelicacuevas.com/Strategic-Comms-Decolonizing-Conservation-in-the-Amazon-Area</guid>

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	Indigenous Ecological Area Web PlatformThe Shipibo Conibo Center (NYC) and the Consejo Shipibo Conibo-Xetebo (Perú).&#38;nbsp; December 2022 to Present
Themes: Indigenous Autonomy, Indigenous Knowledges, Decolonizing Conservation, Action Research. 

My role: Strategic communicator, Campainer, Social Media Manager. 
Language: Spanish and English
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	In collaboration with the indigenous Shipibo Conibo and campesino communities of the Imiría Lagoon in the Peruvian Amazon, we developed areaecologicaindígena.org, a digital platform aimed at coordinating and documenting their endeavors and strategies in their quest for autonomy and the safeguarding of their watersheds and forests.
The Shipibo Conibo communities residing near the Imiria Lagoon in the Peruvian Amazon have been engaged in a prolonged struggle against the imposition of a state-administered conservation area, one that lacked a proper process of prior consent. Quite the opposite, they've faced broken promises, mishandled funds, and restrictive regulations.
Thirteen years ago, with the backing of international NGOs, the Peruvian government declared a conservation area (the ACR Imiría) over their territories without a legitimate consultation process. This conservation area curtails indigenous lifestyles and infringes upon their right to self-determination and territorial control. Furthermore, the ACR has proven ineffective in curbing deforestation, preventing the influx of coca growers, and halting illegal fishing in the region.


	Video: Reynaldo Morales


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		<title>Journalistic Report &#124; Cucuta: Emergency Exit, a special journalistic report on the Venezuelan migration crisis </title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Journalistic-Report-Cucuta-Emergency-Exit-a-special-journalistic</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:44:52 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://angelicacuevas.com/Journalistic-Report-Cucuta-Emergency-Exit-a-special-journalistic</guid>

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Photo: Juan Arredondo for Journey Towards Uncertainty ︎︎︎&#38;nbsp;

	Cucuta: Emergency Exit, a special journalistic report on the Venezuelan migration crisis 
Designed by: Dejusticia
Funded by: Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation.
Parterns: El Espectador newspaper (Colombia) and Runrun, El Pitazo, Crónica Una, NTN24 and Correo del Caroní (Venezuela).2018

Themes: Venezuela economical crisis, Refugees, trasnational journalism, Journalism, Transmedia &#38;amp; Digital Storytelling, Social Justice,

My role:  Project Coordinator, Product Designer, Educator, Social Media Strategist. 

The journalist special report is accessible here.

Language:&#38;nbsp; Spanish and English


	As Dejusticia's Communications Coordinator, this is one of the most important transnational collaborations I have led. The program encompassed a journalism training workshop in Cúcuta, a border city at the epicenter of the migration crisis. Over four days, seasoned Colombian journalists shared their crisis reporting strategies with their Venezuelan counterparts, focusing on the situation in Cúcuta at the time. Subsequently, Venezuelan journalist teams spent three days covering stories along the border.

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Photo: Juan Arredondo
Our vision with this program was to empower Venezuelan journalists while fostering strong professional connections between them and their Colombian colleagues. This collaboration was intended to transcend borders and draw attention to the crisis through the realm of journalistic experimentation.
Our efforts culminated in the creation of eight compelling stories that humanized the Venezuelan exodus. In this endeavor, we partnered with five media outlets spanning both countries—El Espectador in Colombia and&#38;nbsp; Runrun, El Pitazo, Crónica Uno, NTN24, and Correo del Caroní, in Venezuela. 
Our concerted efforts resulted in a simultaneous publication of the report, leaving a profound impact that etched images of Venezuelan migrants into the collective consciousness. This achievement stands out in a reporting landscape that had pred
I not only coordinated the training program, but also carried out this story: 

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Notably, this multimedia reportage garnered the highest readership in the history of Dejusticia.


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PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: FRANCISCO BRUZCO


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MULTIMEDIA &#38;nbsp;BY : RAFAEL HERNÁNDEZ AND RUBÉN SEVILLA

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DOCUMENTARY BY: JOHANNA OSORIO AND YAIKEL DORTA
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		<title>Strategic Comms &#124; Youth for the Amazon: An initiative that achieved the declaration of the Colombian Amazon as a subject of rights </title>
				
		<link>https://angelicacuevas.com/Strategic-Comms-Youth-for-the-Amazon-An-initiative-that-achieved-the</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:27:28 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Angélica Cuevas • Social Justice Researcher and Designer • Strategic Communicator • Journalist • Anthropologist •  Curator • Educator • </dc:creator>

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	Youth for the Amazon: The initiative that achieved the declaration of the Colombian Amazon as a subject of rights.Dejusticia
2018-2019
Themes: Climate Change,  Strategic Litigation,&#38;nbsp;Youth Activism, Deforestation.

My role: Strategic Communicator, Campainer, Social Media Manager. 
Language: Spanish and English


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	On April 5, 2018, the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice issued a ruling requiring the State to protect the Colombian Amazon from deforestation. This decision was in response to a lawsuit filed by a group of 25 children and young people who, with the support of Dejusticia, had complained to the State for failing to guarantee their rights to life and a healthy environment It was the first Lawsuit on Climate Change and Future Generations in Latin America.


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As the strategic communicator in charge, I pushed for the demand to be recognized nationally as an urgent initiative and to gain significant support from Colombia's young population. 

Our comprehensive plan consisted of forging alliances with networks of young activists for the Climate Crisis, such as Fridays for Future. We devised a thorough digital campaign to publicize the demand and effectively disseminated it through Colombia's major media outlets. We collected more than 160,000 signatures from citizens. &#38;nbsp;We also built coalitions with other environmental organizations and trained the young plaintiffs, honing their skills as spokespeople.
The plaintiffs argued that the government's failure to stop the destruction of the Amazon endangered their future and violated their constitutional rights to a healthy environment, life, food and water.
Our communications campaign transformed the lawsuit into a focal point of national news coverage, driven by our strategic alliances with influential individuals. The resounding support from Colombians led the judges to conduct a more thorough review of the case, which ultimately led to the court's recognition of the Colombian Amazon as a "rights-holding entity." This groundbreaking designation means that the rainforest has been endowed with the same legal rights as a human being.
Some of the international press covering:https://www.dw.com/en/colombias-top-court-orders-government-to-protect-amazon-for-future-generations/a-43288343&#38;nbsp;

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/20/can-climate-litigation-save-the-world

https://news.trust.org/item/20180129171256-pp1ym/

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-kids-who-sued-the-colombian-government-and-won/14ykdx77i?cid=newsapp%253Asocialshare%253Awhatsapp


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In partnership with Lanscapes for Hope, in September 2019, we held an event in the Colombian Amazon to disseminate among young Amazonian audiences the Court's ruling that gave rights to the Amazon.
	

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