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artist, writer

Cuban author and transdisciplinary practitioner. Her work is socially engaged and encompasses a range of media and formats, such as writing, performance, photography, film, and installation. Based on ideas of proximity and interference, she activates networks of people and places through the intersection of art with issues related to identity, gender, environment, immigration, multiculturalism, history, and cultural heritage. Alongside Karina Pino, she founded El Trailer in 2020. This collective has conducted artistic and socio-documentary research investigating the migratory experiences of Latin American women living in European cities. For the past five years, she has been developing initiatives of artistic, social, and environmental impact in the Nuclear City (Cienfuegos, Cuba), a place originally built for the workers of the failed Juraguá nuclear power plant project, whose inhabitants live at risk of social exclusion.

Alsakuy Agroecológica is a youth collective for agroecology and food sovereignty founded in Peru in 2020. It is an open space for education in agroecology and socioecological issues at a territorial level in Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Artists, researchers

Bakudapan Food Study Group is a collective of 8 members with different backgrounds and interests. Our research focuses on food, both as a field in itself and as an entry point to explore broader socio-political issues in the world today. Our projects are interdisciplinary in nature, taking from art, ethnography, and many other disciplines; and take the form of performances, art installations and exhibitions, as well as cooking, gardening and reading, amongst others. We are committed to writing and publishing texts, a way to share our research results and further distribute knowledge.

Colombia/Medellín

I am a social communicator and journalist with a master's degree in Humanistic Studies. I am a university professor in the areas of communication and education at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and a communicator for the Casa Tres Patios Foundation. I like walking through cities, learning the names of trees and, above all, listening to everyday stories. I collect poems and leaves.

Is a Mexican visual artist whose practice focuses on drawing as a tool for narrative research and its pedagogies. She has been part of exhibitions such as the 14th. Havana Biennale, Cuba (2021); Manila Biennale, Open City, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines (2018) or MATRIX 175, Fallen Angels, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (2016). She is part of the SOMA Artist Council and has been a member of the National System of Art Creators (2017-2020).   www.dulcechaconart.com IG: @dulce.chacon.art

Comunero and researcher of the Misak native people of Cauca. Philosopher and Master in Arts integrated with the environment. Ala Kusreik Ya teacher, Misak University; member of the Willka Yaku Ancestral Council and Curator of the 18th National Artists' Salon with his research Curar Obedeciendo (Curating by obeying).

Administrator of the Waza Art Center in Lubumbashi. Writer and researcher with a passion for African art and culture. Her research focuses on African values. Feza is interested in the restoration and perpetuation of forgotten African heritages, such as the games and toys our ancestors used. The same goes for certain traditional methods used to preserve food or keep drinking water at a cool temperature. These matters also address the appropriation of museums by local communities. Thanks to these themes, Feza has exhibited internationally. She was part of the 17th Istanbul Biennale (2022) in collaboration with Christian Nyampeta, and the Islamic Arts Biennale 2023 (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) under the theme African Ingenuity through Sustainability.  In these workshops and exhibitions, the focus is on the ingenuity of African children to create toys, recycling (all the materials used are recycled), and an invaluable aesthetic.     IG: @fezakayungu Twitter: @FezaKayungu 

I am a Ugandan poet, essayist, and zine-maker based in Kampala, Uganda. Poetry is my core practice whether written, read, performed and it informs my writing in other genres. I've enjoyed collaborations creating audio compilations with music producers, creating zines with artists and collectives. Writing essays is a way for me to delve deeper into ideas, stories, themes that grab me. They also can transport me outside my internal life and into the immediate reality happening around me. I've enjoyed the perspectives and insights of others around the world to whom I relate or who illuminate my experience as a Ugandan.

Social communicator - Journalist

Journalist and ambassador of everyday wonders. Dedicated to chasing clouds, clichés and stories. His work has focused on finding new ways to narrate the same city, with a sensitive look at human dignity and with the decision to tell the great stories that occur in the social fabric of his city of residence.

Artist

Artist, working in the format of black and white graphics and draw animation. One of member of art group 705.

Professor, Editor

Professor and editor. I currently research on self organization and educational strategies of collective artistic practices and political imagination towards degrowth amid the ecosocial crisis in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Part of Grupo de domingos, provoked by Jessica Gogan and Mônica Hoff and conformed by seven artists, curators, educators and researchers in the crossroads between art and education in different Latin American contexts. I collaborate with Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Paula Piedra in El manual del empleade, an work in progress on self-managed organizations by artists. Former member of TPE (Editorial Production Workshop), a publications production and distribution coop hosted by Cráter Invertido (2016-2019). Codirector of Taller de Ediciones Económicas since 2010, a publishing imprint between cultural production, politics and territory-linked knowledge. Author of Un modelo de organización colectiva para la subjetivación política (t-e-e, 2019).

Poet, artist

Negro, pueblerino, abogado, poeta por convicción y artista por accidente. IG: <a href="http://instagram.com/osvaloy_22">osvaloy_22</a>

Escritora, gestora cultural

Writer and cultural manager. She is currently co-director of TEOR/éTica. She is interested in thinking about how to manage TEOR/éTica's projects responding to the concerns and struggles that cross both the organization and its context. Since 2015 she has participated in the assembly, study and work groups of the Arts Collaboratory network. From 2017 to 2019 she organizes the study group "UPE!" with Seeds: architecture in community, to reflect on the role of TEOR/éTica in Barrio Amón. Since 2019, together with Sofía Gallisá Muriente (PR) and Nicolás Pradilla (MEX) she reflects on the working conditions of art organizations in the Latin American context culminating in the book Introducción al Manual del empleade published in collaboration with Beta-Local (PR) and t-e-e (Mexico). Since 2022 she has been an interim professor at the School of Architecture (UCR) where she teaches the course Architecture and Writing in the first year of the career. She was trained as an Interior Designer and Master in Project Management, she also completed the Diploma in Narrative Practices with the Collective of Narrative Practices (MEX). As a writer she has published books of poetry, short stories and contributed with articles and columns for different national and international media. IG: @ramona_stone_

(Jenniffer Ávila Jordán) As part of the Willka Yaku Ancestral Council and Misak University, her creative process focuses on decoloniality, environmental activism, and ancestral knowledge in processes such as the Race for Water-2011, the Pagamentos Nueve Picos-Nevados, and Grandmother-Water Mandates, among others.

Museum Consultant and Curator

Poornima Sardana is an independent museum consultant based in New Delhi. She designs museum strategy for education, development & community engagement. She develops and facilitates programs that focus on building people’s relationship with museums & each other. She is currently researching and experimenting on museums’ contribution to society’s well-being, to cultures of care, through her research initiative Museums Of Hope, and has co-founded Museums Mazzedaar Collective with Dr. Anaja Joshi.

Last generation to grow up without Internet. Website: https:/blackbook.page, Instagram: @light.logistics

Ritaban Ghosh of Sudden Council, deploys queries into the cusps of the contemporary rippling across pluralities of time. Through video, sculpture, image, and text, he ponders the scape between the seen and imagined and their intervening capacity, with compassionate scrutiny. Negotiating perimeters of power, evidence and historical conjecture, he segues into diverse discourses of threshold and insolvability to chart the voyage to artisthood. Working with broken Buddha, trampled snakes, yellow nights, and disinherited identities, it never ceases to amaze him how we exist and continually adapt ourselves to any and everything and never be the same person again. Ig: @ritaban_ghosh

Photographer, journalist,

I am Ruido, a photo documentary maker from Copacabana, a town just outside Medellín. I grew up surrounded by mountains, watching the clouds and listening to the teachings of my grandparents. I learned from the pain that one inhabits and from my mother's stories that always accompanied breakfasts with my little sister. My path has always been crossed by the possibility of listening to the stories of others, that's why, since I was a little boy, I decided that what I wanted to do for the rest of my life was to tell stories. Those small invisible worlds that are blurred on the horizon of every being. I picked up my first camera when I was 13 years old and, since then, it has been the compass that accompanies me to navigate the rivers of Colombia and walk along the narrow paths that the muleteers of yesterday with machete and mule. I think that photography can change the world or, at least, allow us to see it through different eyes, perhaps more human and sensitive ones. I chose to document life and the pain that comes before it. I enjoy going out to share with communities all over the country, listen to them, observe them, weave a friendship, enjoy their food and allow myself, at least for a few days, to live a different story and narrate a possible world.

Writer, journalist, editor

Journalist and editor from Quindío, Colombia who focuses on narrative journalism. She works around human rights, environment and gender. She is co-founder of Ítaca Laboratorio: periodismo de género, violencia y conflicto armado. She is part of the team of Consonante journalism laboratory. She is a frequent contributor to Bienestar, Bacánika and Baudó AP.

Pro-Palestinian illustrations curated by Mr Makonga were created by South African artists as part of the country’s ongoing protests to ‘hold Israel accountable‘.

Pro-Palestinian illustrations curated by Mr Makonga were created by South African artists as part of the country’s ongoing protests to 'hold Israel accountable'.

I am interested in the stories of people, communities, groups, and collectivities, stories of the towns, plants, mountains, rivers, canals, earth, and sand. I accompany health and justice processes that create non-hegemonic stories. I like to observe, listen, plant, eat, and sleep. I am passionate about self-publishing as a tool for the production of narratives of one’s own. I live in Mexico City. I collaborate with the Colectivo de Prácticas Narrativas and in the planting in the chinampa.

Artist, researcher

Walla Capelobo 1992, Brazil, is a dark forest and fertile mud. Transfeminist and anticolonial. Researcher and artist who creates in the spiral of time that crosses her life. In search of being a criolla seed capable of regenerating invaded lands. She is the pedagogical coordinator of the platform Desculonización: acción y pensamiento (Mexico-Brazil). Proponent of the courses "Terra à terra" and "Composteras: Saberes Regenerativos," alongside Beatriz Nascimento.

Wobusobozi Amooti is a writer, editor, producer, and artistic director. His great loves are literature, theatre, debate, music, learning, trekking and travelling. His personal vision is to leave a more just world than he found.