Despacito Art School with Camilo Pachón + OSE Associates 2026
18 – 21 June 2026

As part of OSE Summer Exhibition 2026

A collaborative film made by OSE Associates and Despacito Art School (ages 5-12+) with guest artist Camilo Pachón over a series of workshops exploring the mask as a technology of self, connection and community. During workshops Associates and Despacito worked with card, paints and natural waste materials to make their own creature, masks, costumes and group flag. This film, edited by Pachón, relates to his longer-term project Carnaval Digital, which was initially established to share hope, connection and life-joy during the Covid Pandemic. For Pachón, Kindling the Inner Light is about recognising ourselves as powerful and transforming creatures, with innate creative potential to transform the world.

This peer-to-peer project is part of our Associates Programme Social Practice Module, which sees OSE’s Despacito Art School (ages 5-12+) work with Associates on ambitious intergenerational projects led by guest artists.

Camilo Pachón is a Colombian visual artist and curator. His work explores community-based practices and the mask as ancestral technologies, serving as transformative entities within their contexts. Camilo creates actions, characters, objects, and community processes that might be commonplace in another dimension but challenge the hegemonic narratives of reality in this one. He is the founder of several creative platforms. These include Crispr Bogotá, an artist-run gallery in Bogotá; AMA (Ambulante Más Allá), a nomadic filmmaking training program for underserved communities in Colombia; and Carnaval Digital, the first trans-local and networked space for artists and carnival collectives from around the world.

This artwork is a collaboration between Open School East’s Associates and Despacito Art School.