Pedro Gómez Egaña is a Colombian artist currently based in Norway who works primarily with sound and music. Trained both as a composer and visual artist, his practice varies from stage performances to video, installation and sound pieces. Gómez-Egaña’s recent work applies a sort of cinematic treatment to notions of accidentality and vulnerability in the urban context. Slow motion, classical music, text, simple drawings, and actual or represented vehicles are frequent in pieces that although make use of multiple technical resources and artistic disciplines; appear to construct worlds of particular simplicity.
In Gómez-Egaña’s performances the performing body is not the artist’s own, but it is displaced onto objects and machines. Motors, mechanical devices and/or vehicles are put into action and become a representation of an urban body questioning the way we associate to the components of our everyday realm as city dwellers.
Gómez-Egaña studied at Goldsmiths College, he recently carried out a 3 year research project on musicality and physicality sponsored by the British Council of England. Has performed, collaborated, and taken part in different venues, exhibitions and festivals such as the South Bank Centre London, FACT Liverpool, Rencontre International d’Art Performance de Quebec, 66East Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art London, DareDare Montreal, Tanz Quartier Wien, BMIC London cutting edge series, Festival Desvicaiones, Madrid, amongst others.
Gómez-Egaña has been lecturer and researcher of the MA programme in visual arts at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Goldsmiths College London, and the Laban Centre London.
Amongst the awards and grants received are the Bildende Kunstneres Norway Award for "swimming sideways" in 2008, and for “birds” in 2007, the Performing Rights Society of England Creative Collaborations Award for “Mahler’s 5ths” in 2004, and the Colombian Ministry of Culture Research Grant for “Cunicula” in 2002.