Juan Felipe Amaya González
Juan Felipe Amaya González (jfag) is a Colombian performer and choreographer working internationally across performance, installation, sound, and site-responsive interventions. His practice is deeply collaborative and develops with a close network of accomplices. His work emerges from experiences shaped by ambivalent legal conditions, which inform how presence is coded in public space and how visibility operates within bureaucratic and regulatory systems. His current investigation unfolds along three interconnected lines: coded visibility in urban space and the ways technology and regulation shape what can appear or disappear; the politics of the closet, understood as everyday practices of showing and hiding within shared spaces; and palliative poetics, an ongoing research into how spaces and societies organize themselves around endings, and how practices of accompaniment and well-being take form within those moments. Within this research, spaces like saunas, public toilets, and gardens function as a framework for thinking through duration and thresholds. His work takes the form of performative sound works, spatial interventions, and durational encounters that treat the city as a lived and negotiated environment.