Dr. Castrillón is a multimodal cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and artist. He is currently an assistant professor at the Arucad Arkin University of Creative Arts in Northern Cyprus. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology.
Dr. Castrillón has been published in academic journals; exhibited at film festivals, art galleries, and academic conferences internationally. He is also a performer of Turkish Sufi Music, facilitator of a music therapy protocol, and pursues Arabic calligraphy and Ney reed-flute training under Turkish instructors.
Ney Maker- Cemil Bastürk
Musician- Juan Ibrahim
Video Captions- Salim Gurbuz
Other Work From Villanova University Art Collection
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