Patricio Gil Flood

Patricio Gil Flood

Patricio Gil Flood

Currently working on:

Helvetropicos, a platform created in 2022 by artists Verónica Casellas, Patricio Gil Flood and Jorge Raka with the aim of promoting exchanges between artists living in Switzerland and sharing a genealogy of affection with Latin America. ¿Desde donde miras el sol? (2023) was Helvetropicos' first collective exhibition.

Quick Facts:

My practice is not linear, it appears as a constellation that contributes to a broader field of art. As a form of permaculture, I exercise different roles: artist, teacher, researcher, and editor. Roles that complement each other, which helps me to develop various forms of knowledge in hybrid combinations.

For several years, I have been carrying out projects that confront the paradoxical relations of Western dichotomies such as: nature and culture, myth and history, material and immaterial, fiction and function, text and action, work and leisure. Towards the development of a practice in a dynamic network, I combine interventions in the public space, performance, collage, printed matter, writing and documentation.

This modus operandi counts with the help and complicity of collaborators, to create new forms of registration and co-agency. Participation in research and collective experiences related to the role of education in the distribution of power, to the performances of experimental exchange of goods, to the manipulation of the landscape and to extractivism, to historically migratory traits and drifts. Some collective projets include School of Non-Work, Practicas de Periferia, Filfilfil, MACACO Press, Los Individuos Radio, La Dispersión, AAS (Subtropical Affairs Agency), Organized Artists, Center for Artistic Research and the Micro Society of Artists Project.

Highest educational degree:

Doctorate - Unité de Recherche, ESAAA, France