Camilo Acosta
This Colombian artist has worked in different contemporary art disciplines, specifically video art, experimental video and performance. The most recurrent theme in all his audio-visual work is based on reflections on death and on how it is represented and reassigned meaning in cultural, social and ethical contexts. The production of image and video as a portrait under constant construction, focused on specific environments such as Latin America. His proximity with performance is due to research and practice that formulates the questioning of gender and identity and their construction processes, where he proposes different forms of creation and moves away from traditional contemporary art scenarios and institutions.
His training began at the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá in 2007, where he became interested in video and installation creation and experimentation as a fundamental resource to understand contemporary art’s audio-visual hyper-production, arriving at creation processes such as video series, video installations, video clips, live mixing work and improvisation sessions.
His work as a video artist, under the name “Huntertexas”, has been exhibited in countries such as Germany, Spain, Canada, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Greece and Colombia. At the same time, he has a wide range of music videos that he has done with bands, DJs and producers from different parts of the world. He is co-founder of the interdisciplinary collective House of Tupamaras, a group of performers and dancers who bring dance, celebration, performance and corporal investigation to unconventional spaces, generating ruptures and questions around gender, artistic production and collectivity as a force for creation.
He created a collective called Street Jizz with the artist Alejandro Penagos, where together they produce images, texts, video essays, experimental postcards and other creation processes in the interest of depicting dynamics of the homosexual ought-to-be, intimacy, loneliness and love as breaking points in a society fed by progress and emotional health.
He currently resides in the city of Medellin, where he engages in processes of creation and artistic management with local ballroom scene collectives, DJs and local musicians, as well as individual creation processes and research, specifically on dissident sexual practices.
