artist
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano
Colombia
Soundwalk available 14 June – 12 October
Soundwalk: 14 June 14:00-15:30
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano (b. 1991, Colombia) is an artist, writer and educator who seeks to amplify the healing powers of water. Through audiovisual and edible projects, texts and collaborative workshops, his work interweaves questions on ecology, technology and spirituality. Pacheco Bejarano researches water as a living archive, digital infrastructures, telepathy and fermentation, opening portals between the visible and the invisible to imagine other technologies beyond extraction.
His work has been recently presented at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid (2024); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht (2023); La MaMa, New York (2023); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2022); ISEA, Barcelona (2022); Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá (2020); Transmediale, Berlin (2020); Ural Biennial, Yekaterinburg (2020); Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2019), among others.
Electric Tide
A soundwalk and guided meditation by Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano
Map of the path from Galleri F 15 to the Cable House
Listen to the meditation once you arrive at the Cable House
This soundwalk is an invitation to connect with the multiple layers of history, life and energy surrounding Jeløy’s cable house, which received one of the first telegraph undersea cables in Norway. On the first QR code you can access the suggested path from Galleri F15 to the cable house, where you are invited to listen attentively to the lifeforms in the island. Upon arriving at the cable house, the second QR code will lead you to a guided sound meditation that reconnects body, technology, and environment, dissolving the perceived boundaries between technological infrastructures and natural rhythms. Bring your headphones. Walk slowly. Listen attentively.
This project is part of Juan Pablo’s long-term research on the relations between water ecologies, technological infrastructures, and telepathic imagination, emphasizing the transformative power of embodied engagement with sites of infrastructural power.
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano
Electric Tide (Cable House Soundwalk)
14 June 14:00-15:30
Gathering at the shoreline of Moss, participants embark on an immersive soundwalk led by artist Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano towards the historic Cable House at Jeløy. Venturing along coastal paths, the group is guided to listen attentively: to hear the wind through tall grass, calls of distant seabirds, and the hum of submerged cables carrying data across oceans. This journey reconnects body, technology, and environment, dissolving the perceived boundaries between built structures and natural rhythms. On arrival at the Cable House, a meditation invites deeper contemplation of presence, watery surroundings, and the transmissions that silently flow beneath the surface. By relocating from Moss’s indoor spaces to this open-air site, Pacheco Bejarano’s work emphasizes the transformative power of direct engagement with land and sea.
The soundwalk occupies a liminal space—a zone of transition linking human perception and marine technology—enacting a horizontal reorientation that bridges worlds both real and conceptual. How do we inhabit an ocean increasingly wired, mapped, and mined? Can we imagine technologies that harmonize rather than extract, that flow rather than fracture?
