LAP#2

The Es Baluard Museu Laboratory of Art and Thought programme began in 2022, developed as a space for education and research, as a platform for ideas and a space for critical thinking in which to explore the potential of artistic practice and cultural production as mechanisms of intervention in social change.

The first edition featured the participation of a group of people who formed an active, participatory, dynamic, critical and plural community. Experts in different subjects shared their experience and knowledge with the group of participants, made up of artists, educators, activists, teaching professionals and people interested in the different topics. A sharing of knowledge that was not vertical and unilateral, but flowed in all directions and fostered exchange, discussion, work processes and collective reflection. The LAP opens its doors to people and communities so they can inhabit the museum, through dialogue, questioning and, especially, through collective construction.

The LAP came into being with a vocation for permanent activity, and also as a space in continuous review and exploration, strongly related to the contemporary cultural, social and political context, as well as the institutional need to constantly rethink itself. The second edition of the LAP has been designed through a process of listening and self-criticism, and is articulated through a more accessible and equally intense format, in terms of thinking, rethinking and understanding education and the exchange of knowledge as essential elements for social transformation.

Direction: Imma Prieto
Contents: Imma Prieto and Berta Sureda
Methodology and management: Eva Cifre and Berta Sureda
Coordination: Eva Cifre and Pilar Rubí

Conceived of from an open and experimental perspective regarding educational processes themselves, the Laboratory of Art and Thought is formulated as a relational space and one of confluence between education, research, dialogue, critical thinking and collective construction of narratives. As a laboratory of ideas, the aim is to construct new spaces of shared knowledge, transformative spaces that both raise and open up questions, and that through a constellation of concepts and knowledge allow for the redefinition of the limits of the institution itself.

The Education programme is based on the idea of collective work, with a flexible format that is developed via two intertwining phases that integrate learning and the co-production of knowledge, research and prospective exploration.

Made up of activities of diverse formats (conferences, seminars, round tables, research processes and laboratories), each edition of the LAP will be composed of different thematic modules with the aim of generating spaces of shared knowledge. The modules are not conceived of as airtight compartments given the transversality and interconnection between the different themes.

Contact Zone is proposed as an open itinerary and a space for thought that does not seek short-term results, but does seek to shake our critical awareness and rethink artistic practice and cultural production as key processes in social transformation around the contemporary world’s key issues.

Each module lasts two weeks and has the following structure:

FIRST WEEK

Opening conference (open activity). Conference that seeks to open up frameworks for reflection, analysis and critical debate, led by a recognised specialist in the field that each module addresses, in order to provide the whole process of the LAP with discourse, accounts, ideas and cartographies.

Conversation/coffee with… (only for registered attendees). Following the conference, the registered attendees and participants in the various modules will share an informal and relaxed session with the speaker.

Seminar and round tables (only for registered attendees). This phase begins with a talk by the participating teachers in which they will present their experiences, reflections and questions within the context of the topic of each module. Subsequently, through round tables and collective work sessions, joint reflection will be carried out to identify lines of research, prospective exploration and investigation of action and intervention mechanisms that can contribute to designing new strategies for social change.

SECOND WEEK

Laboratory (only for registered attendees). This phase begins with a talk by the participating teachers. Subsequently the practical part will focus on the identification and mapping of situated practices of reparation and will connect the different concepts to the context and the immediate surroundings, also taking into account those practices that stand out in the international context.

The programme will be guided by a methodology that combines theory, practice, research and exploration, reflection and critical thinking. It is structured around five thematic modules, all connected to each other, which can be carried out all together, although it is also possible to enrol in each of them independently. In turn, each module will be deployed in two phases, with the following objectives:

Phase 1: Conference and seminars. Analyse and contextualise

Analyse, discuss and delve deeper into the key concepts of the different themes of each module, situate oneself in the social and cultural context and analyse forms of intervention in different contexts, working collaboratively in the creation of conceptual frameworks.

This phase begins with an inaugural conference, open to the general public, which will open up the framework for reflection, analysis and critical debate, led by a person who is specialised and recognised in the subject matter of each of the modules. Subsequently, those registered will have the opportunity to share an informal chat with the speaker and the programme’s teaching team.

Phase 2: Laboratory. Research and intervene

Develop research processes based on the exploration of new collaborative forms of creating knowledge, design of forms of social intervention and development of methodologies, techniques and cultural processes capable of actively influencing social transformations. This practical part will focus on the identification and mapping of situated practices of reparation and will connect the different concepts to the context and the immediate surroundings, also taking into account those practices that stand out in the international context. Thus, stemming from the conceptual frameworks and mapping of crisis repair practices, the Laboratory is a space where those involved can discuss and share new ways of doing things.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the programme, participants will have a better understanding of how to work from within the fields of culture and artistic practices as key elements for social transformation. The educational objectives of Contact Zone: Repairing Crises are:

• To help participants develop professional skills and experience, from within the fields of art and culture, in the following areas:
  • Creation of critical research contexts
  • Development of alternative discourses to the dominant narratives
  • Social and institutional intervention
  • Definition and creation of new forms of institutionality, based on the revision of the relationships between the institution and communities
• To explore the potentials of artistic practice and cultural production as mechanisms of intervention in social change.
• It is developed through different work axes that, combining theory and practice, reflection and action, seek to develop critical research based on collective work processes.
• The aim is to go beyond traditional forms of education in order to become a space for production, processes and the mapping of open itineraries.
• The programme is based on the fact that interpreting and transforming are part of the same journey. It is an experimental pedagogy programme aimed at people from different backgrounds with an interest in the interrelationships between art and culture and other political and social fields.

Programme format

• The programme is made up of 5 modules with a duration of 2 weeks each.
• Registration in the full programme is recommended given the interconnection and transversality between the different modules. Nonetheless, registration in separate modules will be accepted.
• The programme is in-person and it will take place at Es Baluard Museu.
• Maximum number of places: 25 people.
• The contents of the programme are in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Recipients and registration

• Open to all people interested in the interrelations between art and culture and other political and social spheres, people from the fields of the humanities, artistic practice, public politics, cultural production or management, activists and people linked to social movements or who are committed to social change.
• The reservation of a place will be carried out in strict order of arrival of applications.
• Registration deadline for the full programme: 3 February 2023.
• Registration deadline for separate modules: one month before the start of each module.
• Registration cancellation: only be possible up to 15 days before the start of the programme. In this case, you will be entitled to a refund of the total amount minus 10% for processing expenses.

Prices and payment method

• Complete programme (5 modules): €220.
• Fee per module: €60.
• Students: 40% discount.
• Members of Es Baluard Museu: 10% discount.
• Registration and payment here.

Certification

Any participating student interested in obtaining an attendance certificate must have attended at least 80% of the total programme.

Teaching hours: 125 h (complete programme) and 25 h (separate modules).

Open activities

• Price of access to conferences of the modules (open activities): €5 (not applicable to people enrolled in the complete programme or to those enrolled in the module during which the conference takes place).
• Registration for the open activities will open approximately 15 days before the event.

Accommodation

• Es Baluard Museu recommends Hotel Saratoga for its collaboration with the program.

“Contact Zone” looks to continue thinking about concepts that directly affect us, such as the role of democratic institutions, borders and migrations, feminisms, socio-environmental crises, global precariousness and inequality, as bases for reflecting on the complexities of our current time. In this context, it proposes an approach based on the participation of experts who have reflected deeply on these conflicts and, through a collaborative process, give way to intervention itineraries and strategic rethinking in the face of the crises we have been confronting for decades.

This year, “Contact Zone: Repairing Crises” will focus on the possible practices for repairing these crises, and in this way become a space in which to imagine possible futures, experiment with new manners of working from within and with institutions, seek ways of having an impact on the necessary socio-environmental, feminist and anti-racist transition, to fight against emotional, social and job-based precariousness and, ultimately, against the continuous loss of civil, cultural, social, political and economic rights.

Es Baluard Museu continues to propose, through LAP#2, a programme developed around five thematic axes that are intertwined with each other to form a cartography that interrelates the whole of the museum’s activity: New institutionality, Ecologisms, Jobs, Feminisms and Borders. Five central concepts that, from different perspectives, will approach some of the great challenges of our society: social inequality, respect for human rights, climate change, global precariousness and impoverishment, displacement and borders, and the need to rethink institutional structures in order to respond to these challenges.

The programme oscillates between theory and practice, between reflection and research, between debate and action, in order to explore, analyse and discuss about the projects, actions, policies and initiatives that can contribute to repairing the effects of the multiple crises that greatly condition our lives.

MODULE 1. REINVENTING INSTITUTIONS: BODIES AT THE CENTRE
From 8 to 17 February 2023

This module aims to review the role of the institution as an open public sphere, as a citizen’s laboratory in which narratives and stories intersect, spaces from which to question and be questioned. The mechanisms and structures for generating knowledge will be reconsidered, analysing artistic practices that promote new forms and dynamics capable of connecting contemporary artistic and social processes. It is based on generating maps, experiences, concepts and historiographic accounts, but also seeks to redefine borders and reinvent models, intertwining critical thinking and knowledge with experiences and practices that contribute to taking action in social and political change from the cultural and artistic production sphere.

MODULE 2. ENVIRONMENTALISMS: IMAGINING THE IMPOSSIBLE
From 8 to 17 March 2023

We are facing a deep socio-environmental crisis, we are immersed in climate and eco-systemic scenarios that require radical action in the economic, political, social or cultural fields. Natural disasters, the climate emergency, the energy crisis, the loss of biodiversity, the scarcity of the planet’s resources and the unlimited growth policies, added to the social and economic crises that cause insecurity, inequality and uncertainty, can paralyse us in one of the deepest strengths that we have as a society: working collectively and with co-responsibility in order to open paths towards essential social transformation. In the Balearic Islands, the almost exclusive dependence on the tourism sector has led not only to serious environmental impacts, but also to social, economic and political ones, which are leading towards collapse.

MODULE 3. FEMINISMS: THE OTHER NON-APROPIABLE ONES
From 29 March to 14 April 2023

In the words of Fina Birulés, who in turn refers to the theories of Judith Butler, controversy is precisely what produces the richness of feminist thought, because in the gesture of questioning certainties lies the potential for social transformation and critical analysis of ourselves, so it is about openly addressing the conflict, giving voice to what divides or separates us. Because it is also in this open conflict with others, practiced without cancelling communication, where, until now, female freedom has found its place.

MODULE 4. DECONSTRUCTING BORDERS: DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE
From 26 April to 5 May 2023

From the perspective of visible and invisible borders, module 4 looks to explore experiences of social innovation related to the heterogeneity of migratory phenomena, the demographic changes that these phenomena produce and the place occupied by people, families and communities that have migrated or are refugees, their rights (or non-rights), their vulnerabilities and the multiplicity of invisible borders. It seeks to question what we understand by integration, which, as Bonaventura da Sousa states, can be either authoritarian or solidary. The former imposes the way in which a system wants groups to integrate, while the second adapts the conditions of inclusion depending on the groups that arrive, and in collaboration with them.

MODULE 5. WORK: PRECARIOUS MASSES
From 17 to 26 May 2023

For the social majorities, throughout modern history jobs have been synonymous with social integration, with a sort of universal guarantee for social advancement and against the risk of impoverishment. However, with the socio-political dynamics of recent decades, based on neoliberal forms of thinking and practice, these securities have disappeared. We are in the era of job insecurity, which is increasingly leading to a society with vast inequalities, low levels of unity and very little hope, and many authors agree that the lack of action to combat these inequalities and address contemporary challenges nurtures populist movements and discourses that wear down democratic values.

CLOSING SESSION
27 may 2023

During the closing event of Contact Zone #2, Es Baluard Museu extends an invitation to all the people who have participated in the programme (attendees, teachers and organisation) to speak and discuss about the model of the Laboratory of Art and Thought (LAP), which intends to be a space open to dialogue, questioning, tensions and self-criticism. We want to share, based on experiences such as the LAP and other similar practices, reflections that help us collectively rethink and reimagine the possible futures of the museum institution: around the possibilities of creating new models for the relationship between institutions and citizens as well as the paradigm shifts necessary for the radical democratisation of cultural institutions. In short, we want to explore the ways in which the Museum allows itself to be inhabited.

Tutor: Sebastià Mascaró

Wednesday 8 February
4 pm – 6 pm: Presentation and introduction to the module
7 pm – 9 pm: Public conference with Frances Morris

Thursday 9 February
4 pm – 5 pm: Conversation/coffee with Frances Morris
5.30 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and workshop with Steven Forti

Friday 10 February
4 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Jordi Colomer

Wednesday 15 February
4 pm – 8 pm: Presentation and introduction to the Laboratory. Intervention 1. With Ildefonso Narváez, Pablo Martínez and Janna Graham

Thursday 16 February
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 2. With Ildefonso Narváez, Pablo Martínez and Janna Graham

Friday 17 February
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 3. With Ildefonso Narváez, Pablo Martínez and Janna Graham

Frances Morris
Frances Morris has been director of Tate Modern since 2016. Curator, writer and broadcaster, Frances has made many exhibitions and publications, including acclaimed retrospectives of Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin.  Frances has led the transformation of Tate’s International Collection, strategically broadening and diversifying its international reach and representation, developing the collecting of live art and performance and pioneering new forms of museum display. Frances is currently a member of the Advisory Committee, Serralves Museum, Porto; the Scientific Board, MNAC, Bucharest; the International Advisory Committee, Mori Art Museum Tokyo and the Scientific Committee, Mudam, Luxembourg.

Jordi Colomer
Jordi Colomer is an artist who works in the field of sculpture, video-art and installations. At the heart of his work is the investigation of space: physical and real space and the space of performance and representation overlap in the mise-en-scène of the work, producing an experience defined by the artist as “expanded theatre”. Colomer explores the Utopian nature of town planning in large cities, but at the same time presents the dystopic decadence and alienation connected to architecture: the existing space is also made up of disorder and entropy.
Colomer represented the Spanish Pavilion at 57 Venice Biennale (2017), curated by Manuel Segade with the project Únete! Join Us!, an exploration of nomadism and collective agency. From 2018 he started (with poet Eduard Escoffet and producer Carolina Olivares) La INFINITA, a self-managed cultural space based in l’Hospitalet (Barcelona) that want to generate encounters between the visual and living arts.
His works have been exhibited at international museums and biennials including: Museo Reina Sofia and Matadero (Madrid), Jeu de Paume et Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), MUMOK and Belvedere 21(Vienna), Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York), Arte Alameda (México City), 7 Bienal del Mercosul (Porto Alegre), MAAT (Lisboa), Bozar et  Argos (Brussels) ZKU, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlín). Colomer’s work has been shown in two Manifesta editions: Manifesta 10 (St. Petersburg), Manifesta 12 (Palermo), 7 Bienal del Mercosul (Porto Alegre), MAAT (Lisboa), Bozar y Argos (Bruselas) and ZKU, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlín).

Steven Forti
Steven Forti is a professor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a political analyst. Doctor in History from the UAB and the University of Bologna (2011), he was also a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa between 2014 and 2022. His research, focused on fascism, nationalism, populism and the far-right, is oriented towards political history and political culture and thinking of the 20th and early 21st centuries, with a particular focus on Europe during the interwar and post-Cold War periods viewed from the perspective of comparative and transnational history. His latest publications include Extrema derecha 2.0. Qué es y cómo combatirla (Siglo XXI, 2021) and, with Francisco Veiga et alii, Patriotas indignados. Sobre la nueva ultraderecha en la Posguerra Fría. Neofascismo, posfascismo y nazbols (Alianza, 2019). He is a member of the editorial boards of CTXT, Política & Prosa, Il Mulino and Spagna contemporanea, and collaborates with different media outlets in Europe and Latin America.

Janna Graham
Janna Graham doctor in Visual Cultures, is a researcher, organiser and curator working at the intersections of institutional analysis, radical pedagogy, feminism and spatial injustice. Originally a geographer, Graham has worked extensively with groups to support struggles against racism and urban dispossession within and outside of arts and research organisations.  She is co-author – with Kirsten Forkert, Gargi Battacharrya, Federico Olivera and refugee organisations across the UK and Italy – of the recently published How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants (University of Manchester Press, 2021). From 2008-2014 she worked with communities on the Edgware Road (London) to develop the Centre for Possible Studies, a residency and urban research / action space hosted by Serpentine Galleries, resulting in local campaigns, exhibitions and the publication series Studies on a Road. She is editor of Art + Care: a Future (Serpentine, Koenig, 2014) based on a four year research project using cultural strategies to investigate the relationship between practices of elderly care and urban change, Graham is a lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths where she leads the BA in Curating, is part of the international sound and political collective Ultra-red, an organiser with the Deptford People’s Heritage Museum and co-founder of the Goldsmiths Centre for Institutional Analysis.

Pablo Martínez
Pablo Martínez has a doctorate in Art History, with research based on images of the crowds gathered at the funeral of anarchist Buenaventura Durruti. During the past decade, his institutional work has attempted to challenge the limits of the museum in order to imagine an eco-social form of institutionality. He was Director of Programmes at MACBA (2016–2021) and previously responsible for Education and Public Activities at CA2M (2009–2016). Between 2012 and 2015, he was Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has published various books, curated performance series, activated collective creative processes, mentored artists-in-residence and curated exhibitions, negotiated with neighbours, protested against the expansion of MACBA, moved chairs, passed out bottles of water, applied for grants and danced until sunset. Currently, his research and practice is focused on the ecological crisis and the role of art in the construction of a new hegemony that can enable a less violent and more just transition. He tries to go out dancing whenever he can.

Ildefonso Narváez
Ildefonso Narváez is a Municipal Lawyer of the City Council of Manilva (Málaga), master’s in Economic and Territorial Regulation, Urbanism and Environment, and specialist in European Community Law. PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law (University of Málaga – UMA), currently completing his thesis on “The Legal Configuration of the Right to the City: Principles for a Theory of the Urban”. He is the Academic Director of the Conference on Urbanism and Territory organised by the General Foundation of the UMA (7th edition held in 2022). He has carried out research stays at SPISA – Scuola di Specializzazione in Studi sull’Amministrazione pubblica (Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna) and at the School of Architecture and Design of the University of Panama. He has given lectures at different universities and public entities on the subject of his research, among others: “Territorial Planning: Europe and Latin America” (17 May 2016), “The Legal Configuration of the Right to the City” (October 2017) and “The Crisis of the City” (26 May 2021). He has written several academic articles including: “Incidencia de la anulación de la ordenación territorial en la adaptación y revisión del planeamiento urbanístico general”, Revista Andaluza de Administración Pública, No. 98, May–August (2017); “Es la Ley de impulso para la sostenibilidad del territorio de Andalucía realmente sostenible?”, forthcoming publication via RAAP; “El derecho a la ciudad y los comunes urbanos: De la hipótesis lefebvriana a la practicidad de las Agendas Urbanas en la configuración jurídica del derecho a la ciudad”, awaiting publication; and has contributed to collective works with “La reforma del régimen local a través de la Ley 27/2013 de 27 de diciembre de racionalización y sostenibilidad de la Administración Local”, in La apuesta municipalista, ed. Observatorio Metropolitano de Madrid (2015); “El fracaso del desarrollismo urbanístico de la Costa del Sol”, in Paisajes devastados. Después del ciclo inmobiliario: Impactos regionales y urbanos de la crisis, ed. Traficantes de Sueños (2013). He has also collaborated with the La Casa Invisible project in Málaga since its foundation in 2007, where he has contributed to the testing of a public management model for common-use municipal assets.

Sebastià Mascaró
Sebastià Mascaró has a degree in Art History from the University of the Balearic Islands (2002) and is an educator and cultural manager involved in social issues and contemporary art. He was an educational technician and cultural manager in the Education Department of Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma (2005–2017), where he developed and led education and training programmes aimed at students and teachers. He carried out research and development of projects, courses and workshops for and with various groups (mental health associations, ALAS, IB Dona, Ben Amics LGTBIQ, Fundación IRES and Doctors of the World, among others). Gender studies and social groups who are at risk of exclusion have been constants in his career. Standout actions include the development and coordination of projects such as “Sant Sebastià, de la icona al mite” (2014–2018) and FICAE Nómada (International Festival of Short Films and Art about Illnesses) in hospital contexts. General Director of Visual Arts and Public Programmes at the Casal Solleric of the Palma City Council from 2017 to 2019, where he launched the socio-educational and arts programme, he is currently General Director of Education and Language Policy of the Palma City Council, where he coordinates the Palma Educa programme and other education activities.

Tutor: Ivan Murray

Wednesday 8 March
4 pm – 5:30 pm: Presentation and introduction to the module

Thursday 9 March
4 pm – 6:30 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Aina Calafat and Jaime Vindel
7 pm – 9 pm: Public conference with Rita Segato

Friday 10 March
11 am: Conversation/coffee with Rita Segato
4 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Aina Calafat and Jaime Vindel

Wednesday 15 March
4 pm – 8 pm: Presentation and introduction to the Laboratory. Intervention 1. With Yayo Herrero, Aniol Esteban and Monica Di Donato

Thursday 16 March
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 2. With Yayo Herrero, Aniol Esteban and Monica Di Donato

Friday 17 March
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 3. With Yayo Herrero, Aniol Esteban and Monica Di Donato

Rita Segato
Rita Segato is Doctor in Philosophy from the Department of Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast (1984) and Professor Emeritus in Anthropology and postgraduate courses in Bioethics and Human Rights at the University of Brasilia. Senior researcher at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, she holds the Aníbal Quijano Chair at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and directs the Rita Segato Chair for Uncomfortable Thought at the National University of San Martín in Argentina. She is currently one of the directors of the International Course on Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and is also visiting researcher and speaker at postgraduate seminars in numerous academic institutions in the United States, Europe and Latin America. In 2017 and 2018, the Spanish news agency EsGlobal included her among the most influential Ibero-American intellectuals.
She has received various awards including the Latin American and Caribbean Award for Social Sciences (2018), the Frantz Fanon Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2021, for lifetime achievement), the Daniel Cosío Villegas Award for Social Sciences from the College of Mexico (2022) and the Saint Ignatius of Loyola of the Jesuit Order Silver Medal from the Ibero-American University of Mexico (2018), as well as receiving honorary doctorates from the universities of Salamanca, Salta, Cuyo, Villa María, Catamarca, Entre Ríos and Córdoba.
She has collaborated with various human rights organisations and promoted a pioneering measure for racial inclusion and diversity in higher education in Brazil. She is the author of numerous publications on gender, racism and coloniality.

Aina Calafat
Aina Calafat is the daughter of a British organic farmer and an upholsterer from Valldemossa. She has a degree in Biology and a master’s degree in Organic Agricultural Production and in International Politics and Cooperation. She worked for almost 20 years at the Balearic Council of Organic Agricultural Production as supervisor and director. She was manager and head of project coordination for the Agriculture and Fisheries Improvement Services, a state-owned company run by the Government of the Balearic Islands. She has worked as an independent consultant on projects dealing with agroecology, food sovereignty and the implementation of public certification systems for organic food production in several Latin American countries and in Palestine, and also worked as a teacher in the training of professionals specialised in organic agricultural production systems. She is currently responsible for political impact and international projects at Spanish Society of Organic Agriculture and Agroecology (SEAE) (www.agroecologia.net).

Monica Di Donato
Monica Di Donato has a doctorate in Economics, with a thesis that analyses the physical flows and environmental impacts of the consumption models of households in the different regions of Spain. Her research interests are linked to the field of environmental economics, both with regard to the theoretical dimension of the approach and, on a more applied level, the analysis of the energy and material dimension of economic systems from the perspective of social metabolism, especially in regards to the food system. She is currently associated with the GEEDS research group at the University of Valladolid. She works as a researcher at FUHEM Ecosocial (Madrid), a laboratory dedicated to the interpretation and analysis of the complex reality that our society is going through from a socio-ecological perspective, developing projects in the field of strong sustainability towards scenarios of social and environmental transition.

Aniol Esteban
Aniol Esteban has a degree in Biology from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in Environmental Economics from University College London. He has dedicated most of his professional career to uniting the worlds of ecology and economics by making visible the benefits that the conservation of nature and sustainable management of natural resources bring to our economy and society. Since 2017, he has directed the Marilles Foundation, a non-profit organisation that works for the conservation of the Balearic Sea. He previously worked at the New Economics Foundation and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, as well as in various European biodiversity conservation projects linked to institutions such as the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Lisbon Oceanographic Institute. He is passionate about the sea and whenever he can, puts on his goggles and snorkel and goes underwater to observe and enjoy the many species that inhabit the Balearic Sea.

Yayo Herrero
Yayo Herrero is aconsultant, researcher and professor in the fields of political ecology, ecofeminism and education for sustainability. She has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, a qualification in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Educational Theory and Social Pedagogy. She is currently a partner at Garúa S. Coop. Mad. and teacher at various Spanish universities. She is author and co-author of more than thirty books and regularly collaborates with various media outlets.

Jaime Vindel
Jaime Vindel has a doctorate in Art History and a master’s degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences. His is a researcher for the Ramón y Cajal Grant Programme (2018) of the Institute of History of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), where he is Head of Research for the research projects Fossil Aesthetics: A Political Ecology of the History of Art, Visual Culture and Cultural Imaginaries of Modernity (PIE, ref. 202010E005) and Energetic Humanities: Energy and Sociocultural Imaginaries Between the Industrial Revolution and the Socio-Environmental Crisis (PID2020-113272RA-I00, HUMENERGE). He was coordinator of the Cultural Ecologies section of the Independent Studies Programme of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2017–2018 and 2019–2020 editions) and is the author of books including Estética fósil. Imaginarios de la energía y crisis ecosocial (Arcadia, 2020), La Familia Lavapiés: arte, cultura e izquierda radical en la transición española (La Bahía, 2019), Arte conceptual en los límites del lenguaje y la política (Brumaria, 2015, 2016 and 2019) and La vida por asalto: arte, política e historia en Argentina entre 1965 y 2001 (Brumaria, 2014). He was also the editor, among other publications, of the volume Visualidades críticas y ecologías culturales (Brumaria, 2018) and, together with Jesús Carrillo, issue No. 8 of the collection Desacuerdos. Sobre arte, políticas y esfera pública en el Estado español (MACBA, 2014).

Ivan Murray
Ivan Murray is aprofessor in the Department of Geography at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). He has a PhD in Geography from the UIB and an MS (Master of Science) in Environmental Sustainability from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught undergraduate, graduate and master’s degrees in geography and tourism studies. His lines of research are framed within the perspective of critical geography, bringing together forms of analyses from political economics, political ecology and sustainable economics. His research focuses on studying the spatial logics of capitalist tourism, its contradictions and its associated conflicts. His publications include the following books: Geografies del capitalisme balear (UIB, 2012), Capitalismo y turismo en España (Alba Sud Editorial, 2015), Turistificación global. Perspectivas críticas en turismo (Icaria, 2019), Tourism and Degrowth (Routledge, 2020) and #TourismPostCOVID19. Turistificación confinada (Alba Sud Editorial, 2021).

He has also published numerous academic articles. He is a member of the Research Group on Sustainability and Territory of the UIB and of the Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socio-ecological Transitions of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), and is part of the editorial teams of Scripta Nova and Political Ecology magazines. He also participates in environmentalist and anti-capitalist social movements. Among others, he is linked to Grup d’Ornitologia i Defensa de la Naturalesa (GOB) and was part of the Tot Inclòs collective. He also collaborates with the Alba Sud organisation in relation to the critical analysis of touristification and the search for counter-hegemonic alternatives.

Tutor: Arquitectives

Wednesday 29 March
4 pm – 6 pm: Presentation and introduction to the module
7 pm – 9 pm: Public conference with Silvia Federici

Thursday 30 March
4 pm – 5 pm: Conversation/coffee with Silvia Federici
5.30 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and workshop with Nuria Alabao and Brigitte Vasallo

Friday 31 March
4 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Nuria Alabao and Brigitte Vasallo

Wednesday 12 April
4 pm – 8 pm: Presentation and introduction to the Laboratory. Intervention 1. With Ana Dević (What, How and for Whom/WHW), Gabi Ngcobo and Marta Malo de Molina

Thursday 13 April
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 2. With Ana Dević (What, How and for Whom/WHW), Gabi Ngcobo and Marta Malo de Molina

Friday 14 April
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 3. With Ana Dević (What, How and for Whom/WHW), Gabi Ngcobo and Marta Malo de Molina

Silvia Federici
Silvia Federici is Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University (USA). She graduated from the Università di Bologna (Italy) in 1965 and completed her PhD studies at SUNY Buffalo (USA), where she received her doctorate degree in 1980. A feminist activist since 1970, she was one of the driving forces of international debates on the status and remuneration of domestic work. Her field of research is political philosophy and studies related to the history of women and feminist movements. She has also contributed several essays on educational and cultural policy and co-founded the International Feminist Collective in the 1970s. From 1991 to 2003, after a period of teaching at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), she also co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and was co-editor of its newsletter. From 1995 to 2002 she also helped found the US-based Radical Philosophy Association’s anti-death penalty project. Her main publications are Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004), Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2013), Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism (2018), Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (2020), Witches, Witch-hunting, and Women (2021) and Beyond the Periphery of the Skin (2022).

Nuria Alabao
Nuria Alabao is a journalist and researcher, Doctor of Anthropology and member of the Research Group on Social Exclusion and Control at the University of Barcelona. She coordinates the feminisms section of Ctxt.es. In addition to issues related to gender and politics, she is currently investigating the intersections between feminism and the conservative reaction (anti-feminism, post-fascism, etc.) veiwed from a perspective from below, from that of social organisations and their forms of resistance and production of knowledge. She has given courses and workshops on these issues at Koldo Mitxelena, Tabakalera, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the master’s degree in Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism at the University of Barcelona and the Escola Europea d’Humanitats, among others. She has also participated in numerous collective works, such as Alianzas Rebeldes (Bellaterra, 2021), Transfeminismo o barbarie (Kaótica Libros, 2020), Family, Race and Nation in Post-Fascist Times (Traficantes de Sueños, 2020), Neofascismo. La bestia neoliberal (Siglo XXI, 2019), Cómo puede cambiar el mundo el feminismo (Lengua de Trapo, 2019), (h)amor 3: celos y culpas (Continta Me Tienes, 2018), and has coordinated publications such as Un feminismo del 99% (Lengua de Trapo, 2018).

Ana Dević (What, How and for Whom/WHW)
Ana Dević is curator and educator based in Zagreb. She is a member of What, How & for Whom/WHW, a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Vienna and Berlin. Its members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović, and designer and publicist Dejan Kršić.Since 2003 WHW collective has been running the program of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb. In 2018 WHW launched an international study program for emerging artists called WHW Akademija, based in Zagreb. Since 2019 part of the collective (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović) works as artistic directors of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. WHW continues working in Zagreb, where WHW Akademija and program of the Gallery Nova are led by Ana Dević in collaboration with WHW Zagreb team Ana Kovačić, Gordana Borić and Martina Kontošić. Since 2019 Dević has been teaching at MA program in Visual Art and Curatorial studies at NABA, Milan. Since the first exhibition in 2000, WHW curated numerous international projects, among which are Collective Creativity (Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2005); 11th Istanbul Biennial What Keeps Mankind Alive? (Istanbul, 2009); and One Needs to Live Self-Confidently…Watching (Croatian pavilion at 54th Venice Biennial, 2011). More recent projects include My Sweet Little Lamb, (everything we see can also be otherwise), co-curated with Kathrin Rhomberg, various locations in Zagreb, (2016-2017); Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb), co-curated with Kathrin Rhomberg and Emily Pethick (The Showroom, London, 2017); Želimir Žilnik: Shadow citizens (Edit Russ Haus fürMedienkunst, Oldenburg, 2018); 2nd Industrial Art Biennial, On the shoulders of the fallen giants (Rijeka, Pula, Labin, Raša, Vodnjan, 2018).

Gabi Ngcobo
Gabi Ngcobo is an artist, educator and Curatorial Director of the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP). Since the early 2000s Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. Recent curatorial projects include The Show is Over (2022) at the South London Gallery, The ‘t’ is Silent (2022) at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, SCENORAMA (2022), Handle with Care (2021) both at Javett-UP, Mating Birds Vol.2 at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2019). In 2018 Ngcobo curatorially directed the 10^th Berlin Biennale titled We don’t need another hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32^nd Sao Paulo Bienal titled Incenteza Viva (2016). She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised (2016) and the Center for Historical Reenactments (2010–14).

Ngcobo’s writings have been published in various publications including Shooting Down Babylon: The Tracey Rose Retrospective at Zeitz MoCAA, Cape Town (2022),Uneven Bodies, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), The Stronger We Become the catalogue of the South African Pavilion, Venice (2019), We Are Many: Art, the Political and Multiple Truths Cologne, (2019)and Texte Zur Kunst September (2017).

Marta Malo de Molina
Marta Malo de Molina is a translator and independent researcher. She has edited and translated books by feminist authors such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Silvia Federici and bell hooks. She combines her publishing and translation work with research and popular pedagogy projects, developing action-research practices and collaborative creation projects in spaces that support feminism, education and health. Among the action-research initiatives she has contributed to launching Precarias a la Deriva, Observatorio Metropolitano, Manos Invisibles, Entrar Afuera and La Laboratoria. Within the framework of the public school system, she has promoted different collaborative classroom-based projects such as Amiga Robot (Manuel Núñez de Arenas school), Teoría de Conjuntos (Manuel Núñez de Arenas school), Conversaciones en Torno a la Escuela (Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero Madrid), Experimenta Educación. La Escuela como Laboratorio Ciudadano (Puente de Vallecas) and Hilos Maestros. Taller de Arte Postal en un Aula Hospitalaria (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía).

Brigitte Vasallo
Brigitte Vasallo is a freelance writer and researcher. Even without having a university degree, she is a teacher of the Gender and Communications master’s course at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She was a consultant for the Intimate project, at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, and directed and curated the I Festival de Cultura Txarnega in Barcelona. Her published books include PornoBurka (self-published, 2013), Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso (Oveja Roja 2017, translated as El desafío poliamoroso in Argentina and Brazil, Paidós, 2020), Mentes insanas (RBA, 2020) and Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase (Larousse, 2021).

She is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Rac1, Pikara Magazine, elcritic.cat or Ara newspaper, and her work has been translated into English, French, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese, among other languages. In the performing arts field, she co-directed the piece Un cos (possible) i lesbià, with Alba G. Corral, and wrote and directs Trilogía de Naxos.

Arquitectives
Arquitectives is a collective formed by Pablo Amor Méndez and Cristina Llorente Roca, architects specialised in urban planning and the environment, urban management and citizen participation, as well as being Spanish delegates of the Architecture & Children international work programme of the International Union of Architects (UIA). As the Arquitectives collective they have been working since 2009 on the dissemination and transformation of architecture, urban environments and landscape, in the fields of both design and education, through a participatory, collaborative, integrationist, ecosystemic and didactic approach.

They have taught university courses and given conferences on these topics around the world (Madrid, Helsinki, Weimar, Bucharest and Sofia, among others). Their publications include Edu y la mejor casa del mundo (self-published, 2005), Escola i paisatge de Mallorca (Consell de Mallorca, 2020), Guia urbana de l’Eixample de Palma (Palma XXI, 2019) and Ecosistemes urbans (Conselleria de Medi Ambient, 2020), as well as scientific and opinion articles in both Spanish and international publications.  They are currently working together with IB Dona on the drafting of a good practice guide for the design of urban spaces with a feminist perspective. www.arquitectives.com

Tutor: David Abril

Wednesday 26 April
4 pm – 6 pm: Presentation and introduction to the module
7 pm – 9 pm: Public conference with Tania Bruguera

Thursday 27 April
5 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and workshop with Hamlet Lavastida and Santiago Alba Rico

Friday 28 April
4 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Hamlet Lavastida and Santiago Alba Rico

Wednesday 3 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Presentation and introduction to the Laboratory. Intervention 1. With Olga Bryukhovetska & Sean Snyder, Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez and Remei Sipi

Thursday 4 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 2. With Olga Bryukhovetska & Sean Snyder, Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez and Remei Sipi

Friday 5 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 3. With Olga Bryukhovetska & Sean Snyder, Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez and Remei Sipi

Santiago Alba Rico
Santiago Alba Rico is a writer and essayist and studied Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He was a scriptwriter during the 1980s for the legendary television programme La Bola de Cristal and has published more than 20 books on politics, philosophy and literature, as well as three children’s stories and a play. His works include the essays Las reglas del caos (1995 Anagrama prize finalist), Vendrá la realidad y nos encontrará dormidos (Hiru, 2006), Leer con niños (2007, re-published by Literatura Random House, 2015), Capitalismo y nihilismo (Akal, 2007), El naufragio del hombre (Hiru, 2009), Noticias (Caballo de Troya, 2010) and Penúltimos días (Catarata, 2016). Since 1988 he has lived in the Arab world, having translated into Spanish work by Egyptian poet Naguib Surur and Iraqi novelist Mohammed Jydair. His latest books are Ser o no ser (un cuerpo) (Seix Barral, 2017), Todo el pasado por delante (Catarata, 2017) and Nadie está seguro con un libro en las manos (Catarata, 2018). In 2019, under the title Última hora, he collected all his radio collaborations with the Carne Cruda radio show. He regularly collaborates with different media outlets (Público, Cuarto Poder, CTXT, Ara, eldiario.es and El País, among others). His latest book is titled España (Lengua de Trapo, 2021).

Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera carried out her studies at the Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas 20 de Octubre and at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also taught between 2003 and 2010. Her work is based on her interpretation of political and social issues. In order to define her artistic practices, she has developed concepts such as behaviour art with a focus on the limits of language and the body confronted with the reaction and behaviour of her spectators. Additionally, she proposes a useful art to influence the real transformation of certain political and legal aspects of society. Bruguera’s work focuses on issues of power and control and questions the present context in her native Cuba. She created the Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana in 2002 and the Asociación de Arte Útil in 2011 as platforms for encounter and the implementation of her projects. In 2016, she inaugurated the Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt (INSTAR), with the mission of creating an institutional platform in which Cubans can learn about their civil rights, promote critical and informed discussions, and form part of an alternative political space. She has taken part in international artistic events such as the documenta in Kassel and the Venice, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Havana biennials, and has exhibited in museums, galleries and art centres such as the Tate Modern, the Art Institute of Chicago and the New Museum in New York, among others.

Olga Bryukhovetska
Olga Bryukhovetska, PhD, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine), where she teaches courses on film theory and visual culture. Together with the artist Sean Snyder and a group of Ukrainian intellectuals she co-founded Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv) where she worked till 2012. As a researcher in visual culture she participated in numerous projects such as Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (2008 – 2012), Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe (2010), Former West: Art and the Contemporary After 1989 (2008 – 2016). Her research focuses on political dimensions of visuality and cultural integration traumatic experience. She publishes in Ukrainian and English, her English language texts appeared in Art-It, Red Thread, KinoKultura, Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, Frieze, and L’Internationale. Her most recent text addresses the war in Ukraine, Maidan and empowerment of the people: ‘Time and Again ’https://www.internationaleonline.org/opinions/1091_time_and_again

Hamlet Lavastida
Hamlet Lavastida explores the relationship of language and ideology in his art practice. A graduate of Havana’s University of the Arts and Tania Bruguera’s Taller de Conducta. His work arose from the need to create an objective criterion for certain hidden areas of the implementation, administration and functioning of state political practices in Cuba. Central to Lavastida’s artistic practice is the re appropriation of texts, images and symbols, as well as political speeches and ideological terminologies, which he questions critically within the framework of his work. The relevant factor is their reinterpretation using the same or a similar format to that in which they were originally created revealing the absurdity of these historic brands and at the same time examines and demystifies the tools of propaganda. Issues such as cultural policy, design, public sphere, archaeology and historiography are addressed from different media such as video, collages, performances, public interventions and installations. Hamlet’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Documenta 15 in Kassel, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, the Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art in Poland and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. His critical vision of his country’s history and current affairs is perceived by Cuban authorities to be a threat to national security. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez
Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez is Head of Migration Policies and Diversity at Instrategies and associate researcher at GRITIM-UPF. She is an expert for the Council of Europe in the framework of the Intercultural Cities Project and coordinator of the RECI-Network of Intercultural Cities. She was director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration and project manager at the Council of Europe with the C4i Communication for Integration project. She is an expert appointed to different reports for the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee, and has also participated in several European projects. She is an associate professor at the UAB and UPF.
Her main lines of work are the policies and legal resources on migration and asylum of the European Union, the foreign dimension of migration policies and integration and diversity policies, as well as the multilevel governance of migration, asylum and inclusivity issues.
She is doctor in Political Science for Universidad Complutense de Madrid and she has a degree in Political Science from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, a master’s in International Studies and a master’s in Political Analysis from the UOC.
Among her most recent publications, it is worth highlighting “La inmigración en España hoy. Reflexiones más allá de la pandèmia”, in Documentos Alternativas, 213/2022; “Dinámicas migratorias, espacios multiculturales y retos multinivel”, in Vidas en transición. (Re)construir la ciudadanía social, 2021; “Migraciones en la Unión Europea en tiempos de sindemia”, in Anuario CIDOB de la Inmigración 2020.

Remei Sipi
Remei Sipi was born in Rebola (on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea) and arrived in Spain in 1968 to study in Figueres (Girona). She subsequently moved to Barcelona, where she has lived ever since. Graduate in Early Childhood Education, expert in Gender and Development (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and co-founder of the E’Waiso Ipola and Yemanjá associations, she not only stands out for her dedication to oral literature and essay writing, but also for her militancy in the association movement of African and immigrant women. She is president of the Federation of Guinean Associations of Catalonia, among others. Her work has earned her various awards. She founded and directs the Mey publishing house, a benchmark for Equatorial Guinean literature, and as an author has published, among other works, Las mujeres africanas: incansables creadoras de estrategias (1997); Inmigración y género. El caso de Guinea Ecuatorial (2004); Les dones migrades: apunts, històries, reflexions, aportacions (2005); Cuentos africanos (2005); El secreto del bosque. Un cuento africano(2007); Baiso, ellas y sus relatos (2015), together with Nina Camó and Melibea Obono; Voces femeninas de Guinea Ecuatorial. Una antología (2015); Mujeres africanas. Más allá del tópico de la jovialidad (2018), and Nos lo contaron nuestros mayores: cuentos Bubis (2020). She has also been a speaker at different universities in Spain as well as in England, the United States, Latin America and Africa.

Sean Snyder
Sean Snyder is artist. He uses various analog and digital media to interrogate urban and media space. His present work re-traces empirical evidence and perceptual information in the specific space and time of its production. His research is based on ISO rules, forensic protocols and uses binary digits. Recent solo exhibitions Aspect Ratio / Dispositif, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France, Aurora Borealis, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany, Room 11 (Latitude: 78.223, Longitude: 15.646), Longyearbyen Folkebibliotek / Kunsthall Svalbard, Norway; Exhibit: NNKM.DEP.0199, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway; Room 11 (Virtually Real), Guttormsgaards Arkiv, Blaker, Norway.

David Abril
David Abril has a degree in Philosophy and Humanities and a doctorate in Education, and is a specialist in Epistemologies of the Global South. He is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and Secretary of the Department of Philosophy and Social Work. He is a member of the INTER research group on intercultural education (UNED) and also of the Inequalities, Gender and Public Policies group (UIB), and is a researcher at the Social Observatory of the Balearic Islands (OSIB). In the professional field he has worked in the socio-educational field within the framework of various non-profit entities, and in the political field he has carried out both representation and management responsibilities. He is Head of Education at the Darder-Mascaró foundations and collaborates with various social platforms, such as Fòrum de la Societat Civil per a la Reconstrucció de les Illes Balears and Mercat Social de les Illes Balears, among others. In addition to his scientific production (focused on issues of citizenship and education, participation and inequalities, among others), he is also a columnist for the Ara Balears newspaper and editor of Illa Global.

Tutor: Rafael Borràs

Wednesday 17 May
4 pm – 6 pm: Presentation and introduction to the module
7 pm – 9 pm: Public conference with Sandro Mezzadra

Thursday 18 May
4 pm – 5 pm: Conversation/coffee with Sandro Mezzadra
5 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and workshop with Daniel G. Andújar and Martha Rosler

Friday 19 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Seminar and idea-sharing session with Ibrahim Mahama, Daniel G. Andújar and Martha Rosler

Wednesday 24 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Presentation and introduction to the Laboratory. Intervention 1. With Paola Lo Cascio, Isabell Lorey and Luis Navarro Monedero

Thursday 25 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Interventions 2 and 3. With Paola Lo Cascio, Isabell Lorey, Luis Navarro Monedero and Ibrahim Mahama

Friday 26 May
4 pm – 8 pm: Collective research project. Intervention 4. With Isabell Lorey, Luis Navarro Monedero and Ibrahim Mahama

Sandro Mezzadra
Sandro Mezzadra is professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna and Associate Researcher at the Culture and Society Institute of Western Sydney University. He has been visiting professor and researcher at different centres, including the New School for Social Research (New York), Humboldt University (Berlin), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), University of Ljubljana, FLACSO Ecuador and UNSAM (Buenos Aires). Over the past decade, his work has focused mainly on the relationships between globalisation, migration and political processes, on contemporary capitalism, as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He is an active participant in debates on post-operaismo and one of the founders of the Euronomade website (www.euronomade.info).
His published work includes: Derecho de fuga. Migraciones, ciudadanía y globalización (Traficantes de Sueños, 2005), La condizione postcoloniale. Storia e politica nel presente globale (Ombre Corte, 2008), Un mondo da guadagnare. Per una teoria politica del presente (Meltemi, 2020) and In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Along with Brett Neilson, he is also author of Border as Method (Duke University Press, 2013) and The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019). He has worked on various European and international research projects, and currently coordinates the Horizon 2020 PLUS (Platforms, Labour, Urban Spaces) project.

Daniel García Andújar
Daniel García Andújar is a visual artist, theorist and activist who, through irony and the use of the presentation strategies of new communication platforms, questions the democratic and egalitarian promises made by these media outlets, and criticises the desire for control they hide behind their apparent transparency. He is the founder of Technologies to the People, member of irational.org (an international reference for art online) and director of various internet-based projects such as e-barcelona.org, e-stuttgart.org and Postcapital Archive (1989–2001).
His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Manifiesta 4, 53rd Venice Biennale, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Kyiv Biennial and 3rd Seoul International Biennale of Media Art. In 2015 Manuel J. Borja-Villel organised a tour of his work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and in 2017 he participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel.

Paola Lo Cascio
Paola Lo Cascio is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona and Deputy Director of the Centre for International History Studies (CEHI-UB). She is also director of the magazine Índice Histórico Español. She has a degree in Political Science (La Sapienza, Rome, 1999) and a PhD in Contemporary History (University of Barcelona, 2005). She has spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisboa (ICS-UL) and as visiting professor at several universities, such as the University of Cambridge and the Università Roma Tre. She is a collaborator of the Escuela Sindical Confederal Juan Muñiz Zapico de Comisiones Obreras and collaborates in different media, such as El Periódico de Cataluña and El País. Her research interests focus on the history of political institutions, regionalism, nationalism, new forms of governance and political culture, institutions, conflict and social changes throughout the 20th century in Spain.

ates the world we live in from a feminist and critical perspective. Her political commitment has led her to deal with the conflicts and problems that take place not only in her country but also internationally, in places such as Cuba, Mexico, the former Yugoslavia, or nearer ones to us, such as Barcelona.

Isabell Lorey
Isabell Lorey is a political theorist and professor of Queer Studies in the Arts and Sciences at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany). She is part of transversal (transversal.at), the publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). Here books include in English State of Insecurity. Government of the Precarious, London: Verso 2015; Democracy in the Political Present. A Queer-Feminist Theory, London: Verso 2022. Books in Spanish: Estado de Inseguridad. Gobernar la Precariedad, Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños 2016; Disputas sobre el sujeto. Judith Butler y Michel Foucault, Buenos Aires: La Cebra 2017; Democracia en presente, Buenos Aires/Málaga: Tinta Limon/subtextos 2022.

Ibrahim Mahama
Ibrahim Mahamavisual artist. He received his MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana). In his installations and wall-based works, Ibrahim Mahama considers the ways in which capital and work are expressed in common materials. Their history speaks of how global transactions and capitalist structures work. Mahama participated in the first Ghana Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale where he created a bunker-like space made out of the mesh used to smoke fish and filled it with references to Ghana’s history. Mahama has had multiple solo installations in Accra and Kumasi, as well as solo exhibitions in Dublin, Michigan, and at White Cube in London.

Luis Navarro Monedero
Luis Navarro Monedero is a philosopher and writer. He has eschewed the academic and institutional worlds, preferring to act from the outside to bring about shifts in cultural paradigms that define how he sees and positions himself. In the 1990s he was the driving force behind the dispersed Industrias Mikuerpo collective, which was very active in creating a networked culture through autonomous platforms (social centres, fanzine and mail-art circuits, aesthetic activism, etc.). He later sought to promote critique and explore the situationist experience by founding the Archivo Situacionista Hispano and Literatura Gris publishing house. In the same vein, he helped set up the Maldeojo collective, a space for debate that strove to bring critique of the spectacle into the internet age. His current interests focus on art as an object of reflection and a medium for social action.

Martha Rosler
Martha Rosleris an artist, art critic, writer, and Professor Emerita of Fine Arts. She uses media ​​such as video, photography, photomontage, sculpture, installation and performance. Rosler’s work is centered on the role of women in society, as represented in the media and advertising, as well as the relationship between private life and the public sphere. A major focus of her attention is “the right to the city,” encompassing housing, homelessness, and the built environment, as well as systems of transportation.Rosler interrogates the world we live in from a feminist and critical perspective. Her political commitment has led her to deal with the conflicts and problems that take place not only in her country but also internationally, in places such as Cuba, Mexico, the former Yugoslavia, or nearer ones to us, such as Barcelona.

Rafael Borràs
Rafael Borràs has carried out various responsibilities as part of the CCOO union and worked as a socio-labour analyst at the Gadeso Foundation. Retired since May 2018, he still regularly collaborates with various media outlets in Mallorca. He writes regularly for the Alba Sud development research and communication association and for Sin Permiso digital magazine. His published work includes essays such as Precarietat. De la inestabilitat a la pobresa laboral. El cas de les Illes Balears (Fundació Gadeso, 2015) and Pens, dic, faig… (Ona Mediterrània, 2019). He coordinated Anuari del treball de les Illes Balears 2016 (GOIB, 2017) and took part in collective publications including Anuari del turisme de les Illes Balears (Agència d’Estratègia Turística de les Illes Balears, 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions) and #TourismPostCOVID19. Turistificación confinada (Alba Sud Editorial, 2021).

Instituto del Tiempo Suspendido (ITS)

Project founded by Raquel Friera and Xavier Bassas that combines art and the questioning of philosophy and politics, reflection and activism of time. The ITS is a life project because it transversally concerns everyone’s life, from our birth—and before we are born—to our death—and even after—. The ITS identifies chrono-normativity in all areas of our societies and responds to it through chrono-diversity. www.institutodeltiemposuspendido.es

Raquel Friera has a degree in Economics and in Fine Arts. Her artistic projects denounce the diverse mechanisms of social control: detention centres for migrants, racial and religious identities, and economic morality, among others. Feminist thought has increasingly accompanied her work and has finally helped her synthesise the questioning of time as an essential mechanism for the production of subjectivity in our societies. www.raquelfriera.net

Xavier Bassas is a professor of French Studies at the University of Barcelona, a translator of French thought and a philosopher by vocation. Of his numerous collaborations and publications, the series L’art de la cronodiversitat (CaixaForum Barcelona, 2021) and his two recent books stand out: Jacques Rancière. Ensayar la igualdad (also in Catalan, Gedisa, 2018) and a conversation with Jacques Rancière himself titled El litigio de las palabras. Diálogo sobre la política del lenguaje (NED, 2019; also in French, La Fabrique, 2021).