Julieta Colantonio
I am a writer and curator born in Buenos Aires and based in Berlin. My work links editorial practices with space, light, and sound compositions, placing critical theory at the service of collaborative coordinates.

Under 'spiritual technologies', the research infrastructure for curatorial hyperlinking that I co-founded and co-direct, I study how shifting paradigms mutually inform experimental practices situated in a 'neo-perifera'. This syntagma operates as a potential for rearrangements in perception, meaning and accumulated knowledge. Through my research as oeuvre I explore the philosophical, sonic, and metaphysical possibilities of this premise.

With a formation in communication sciences grounded in analytical psychology and philosophy of history, I am driven by the human condition's relationship to the substance of language, myth, and the unconscious. These theoretical tectonics inform my sound practice with gongs, linking eastern meditation traditions with studies in relationship with space, deep and embodied forms of listening, and effects on brain wave states.

My body of work seeks to act as a mnemoseye of the untold: a device for conditions of amplified perception, at once expanding existing lexicon and integrating that which resists stabilising as form or object.


Education

Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Comunicación
Universidad de Buenos Aires (FSOC, UBA)
2022


Work 

Co-Founder and Director
spiritual technologies
2023 - present

Independent Writer
DAZED, Grau, Arts of the Working Class, King Kong, vakuum
2023 - present

Visual Researcher
Humboldt-Innovation 
Berlin
2021 - 2022

Digital Strategist
Museo de Arte Moderno 
Buenos Aires
2021 - 2022

Residencies and Grants

Curatorial Residency
Arts of the Working Class
Berlin
2025

Research Residency
Workspace Brussels 
Brussels
2024

Full Scholarship  
Santander and Humboldt International Program
Berlin
2021

Curatorial and Dramaturgy

(upcoming) Illusio
Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Gil Corujeira, Amalia R Mitina, Maximilian D’Antonio, Mila Tirini
Culterim Gesundbrunnen
Berlin
2026

Martyriums
Shaly López, Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Josefina Maro
New Fears Gallery
Berlin
2025

Archive screening (60’)
Leo Adef, Mila Tirini 
Arts of the Working Class
Berlin
2025

A Fragile Moment of Peace (working title)
Shaly López, Fe Sexta
Kaaistudios
Brussels
2024

A Sense of Return,
STUCK, Alecchina, Sofia Mastrogiacomo 
GIRI
Berlin
2024

Parallel Play: Final Act

Post-Organic Bauplan, Bungalovv
Project Space Festival, COUNCIL+ 
Berlin
2024

Parallel Play
Yan Lozov, Lazaer Georgiev, Petra Popangelova, Mike Morlock
COUNCIL+
Berlin
2024

I saw you in a song: an anti-memoir
Marina Mónaco, Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Morphena
Be Safe Space
Berlin
2024

Dripping Stillness
Lena Becerra, Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Shaly López, Candie
Spätibros
Berlin
2023

I saw you in a song
Marina Mónaco, Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Morphena
Art House Rising
Berlin
2023


Edited Publications

I saw you in a song: an anti-memoir
Concept, Co-Editor
Marina Mónaco, Sofia Mastrogiacomo
We Make it, Printed Matter, Inc. 
NYC 
2024

Dripping Stillness

Concept, Author, Co-Editor
Lena Becerra, Sofia Mastrogiacomo
We Make it, Institute of Postnatural Studies
Madrid
2023

I saw you in a song
Concept, Co-Editor
Marina Mónaco, Sofia Mastrogiacomo
We Make it
Berlin 
2023


Featured Stories

Amidst Daemons and Demigods: Heith and Bianca Peruzzi
Photography by Gil Corujeira
King Kong Magazine, issue 20. Print
2025

To the Anointed Ones
Co-authored by Mila Tirini 
Arts of the Working Class, issue 37. Print.
2025

The Metaphysics of Dysmorphia: Figa Link ↗

GRAU Magazine, issue 02. Printed cover
2025

Dance on the Verge of Humankind's Collapse: Adam Russell-Jones and Europa
Photography by Gil Corujeira
vakuum Magazin, online 
2025

A Raw Portrait of Germany's Burgeoning New Wave Scene

Dazed Magazine, online
2024

Nostalgia as the Perpetual Return to the Source: Sanfita 666

STUCK Magazine, issue 02. Printed cover
2024


Listening Formats

(upcoming) Composition for Gongs: A Sonic Meditation Live Set
With Sasha Smirnova
HAR Loft
2026

A Listening Practice: Ambient and Gongs
With Landscape 
HAR Loft
Berlin
2026

Sound / Silence
With Emilio Osei-Bonsu and Barbarelle 
BAM-works
Berlin
2025

Equinox Bath: Ambient and Gongs 

With landscape
HAR Studio
Berlin
2025

Silence Bath: Planet Gongs and Lyras

With Fe Sexta
HAR Loft
Berlin 
2025
              
Selected Projects  
EmailInstagram, are.na ↗
spiritual technologies
research infrastructure, curatorial hyperlinking
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Julieta Colantonio, Sofia Mastrogiacomo, Shaly López, Mila Tirini. 
Berlin, Germany. 2023-present.

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spiritual technologies is a research infrastructure and exercise in curatorial hyperlinking based in Berlin, co-founded and co-directed by Julieta Colantonio and Sofia Mastrogiacomo, with core member Shaly López. Since 2023, the focus has been on the conceptualisation, design, and production of dramaturgies, publications, installations, and artefacts: imploding borders between exhibition series, academic discourse, and internet practices. Our approach integrates experimental strategy and research methodologies to catalyse collaborative efforts on repositioning pioneering (neo-) peripheral actors worldwide and the institutions they are aligned with. 
A fragile moment of peace (working title)
ambience, dramaturgy
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Julieta Colantonio, Shaly López, Fe Sexta
Kaaistudios. Brussels, Belgium. 2024-present



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A fragile moment of peace (working title) is an ongoing sensory dramaturgy co-authored and developed with light and stage designer Shaly López. Working across sound, light, scent, and word, it explores the dramatic and metaphysical possibilities of the spectral. Derived from the Latin specere ("to look"), the spectral refers to perceptual phenomena in which figures or sensations remain after a stimulus has ceased. Through the iteration of spatial articulations, a structure based purely on subjective, locational, and relational interpretations begins to form. Not a narrative; but likelihood pushed until it behaves like one, the composition in progress traces how perception continues to operate beyond the limits of the sensible. 
sound, silence, world
ambience, research infrastructure
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Julieta Colantonio, Emilio Osei-Bonsu, Barbarelle
Photography by: Johanna Weilert

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sound, silence, world is a listening format series situated within a longer-term initiation into gong facilitation and Ashram training. Developed in collaboration with designers, producers, and composers, the practice advances the hypothesis that the current decay of our reality systems is giving rise to a turn to stillness, witnessing, and contemplation: not passive, but increasingly receptive to atmosphere. Its map of influences spans from Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening to Egyptian Alchemical treatises on sound as medicine and Death Doula traditions. The planet gongs I play are attuned to the Cosmic Octave, a formula developed by Swiss mathematician Hans Cousto linking periodically occurring natural phenomena. Their frequencies travel through matter and enhance Theta and Delta brain states associated with creation states and access to the unconscious. The encounters operate as coordinates that collide the outward and active with the inward and embodied, towards collective gestures in the processing of grief. 
archive screening 60’: leo adef
curatorial hyperlinking, archival practice
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Curated by Julieta Colantonio
Graphic Design by Sofia Mastrogiacomo
Production Assistant Mila Tirini
Live piece by P0brediabla
Built with spiritual technologies
Light Design by Shaly López  
Photographs by Marina Mónaco
In Residency at Arts of the Working Class

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A 60' cut of Leo Adef's videotape archives. Spanning eight years of intimate encounters, the film-based essay explores the dual face of vulnerability as a driving state to sustain: as fragile as it is potent. Both a fragment and a continuum, the project moves under the pulse of reaching from individual universes the matter for sense-making and sense-breaking perception -- of the self, the bodily, its surroundings, and the intrinsic grief of probing through all three. Encompassing queer experiences across Berlin, Kyiv, Buenos Aires, Athens, São Paulo, Barcelona, Prague, and Warsaw, Leo Adef's act of editing links the dots between outward expression and inward articulation, beyond the tyranny of time-space. The Berlin encounters at Arts of the Working Class mirrored the project's promise: to remain open to both the forces of fast-paced transformation and deep-degree vulnerability. A meta-image of the archive itself, the closed-door iterations of Leo Adef's cuts aim to enrich the body of work by facing intimacy with intimacy.

I saw you in a song
curatorial hyperlinking, editorial practice
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Editorial and Art Direction by Julieta Colantonio and Sofia Mastrogiacomo.
Graphic Design by Sofia Mastrogiacomo.
Concept by Julieta Colantonio.

All photographs by Marina Mónaco.
Built with spiritual technologies.
Risograph printed and bound at We Make It 2023.

Limited Edition of 150 copies
150g/m² Munken Print White paper
32 pages 20x28,5cm
1/1 color Risography

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I saw you in a song and I saw you in a song: an anti memoir, the publications, are echoing formats of the exhibition series under the same name. The original concept was developed for Marina Mónaco by me, with co-direction and curation alongside Sofia Mastrogiacomo. It features a selection of songs, texts, and conversations with Mónaco. The work was featured in DAZED Magazine and is part of Printed Matter Inc. catalogue in New York.