The symposium “The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality” (Centre d’Etudes Mexicaines et Centroaméricaines, 30 July 2025) seeks to undertake a transnational inquiry into the formation and implementation of collective community organizations, with a particular focus on interrogating their spatial, cultural, and visual productions.
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Participation in the residency “Estéticas para después del fin” (Casa Giap, San Cristóbal de las Casas, July 14–25, 2025)
Paula Barreiro López, Tobias Locker and Sonia Kerfa, members of MoDe(s), will take part in the residency “Estéticas para después del fin”, to be held at Casa Giap (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas) from July 14 to 25, 2025.
CFP – Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity
The call for papers for the symposium “Archival Fever in the Exhibition: Critical Intertextualities, Politics and Display Practices from the Cold War to Global Contemporaneity” (Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès) is open until July 6, 2025.
Learning from the journey of the Zapatistas (Viaje por la vida) through Europe. Images, words and representations for an urgent anti-colonialism.
Based on the visual productions and protest actions carried out in Madrid during the Journey for Life, the workshop “Learning from the journey of the Zapatistas (Viaje por la vida) through Europe. Images, words and representations for an urgent anti-colonialism” (Centro Social Tres Peces Tres – Madrid, 22 April 2025) addresses the production and use of images and counterfactual narratives incited by Zapatista travelers, as well as their limits and challenges.
Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life
Starting with the Zapatistas’ journey for life in Europe in 2021,, the seminar “Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life” (Les Abattoirs, 20 march 2025) will seek to analyse the structuring role of images in the constitution of models of resistance to extractivist and neoliberal logics, in order to create spaces for solidarity and sharing.
María Ruido “Of Love and Rage” – Spanish Academy in Rome
María Ruido has been awarded the prestigious grant (2024-2025) from the Spanish Academy in Rome to develop her project “De amor y rabia” (Of Love and Rage).
Equipo Comunicación. Antifranquismo, edición, debate (1968-1979)
The exhibition “Equipo Comunicación. Antifranquismo, edición, debate (1968-1979)” ( Sala de exposiciones UAM, October 28 – December 6, 2024) aims to recover the editorial and intellectual activity of Equipo Comunicación, relating it to the movement of non-tenured professors (PNN, profesores no numerarios) of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Criticism
The seminar “Equipo Comunicación, in Context: Anti-Francoism, Publishing, and Cultural Critique” (Madrid, 6-8 November 2024) aims to recover and contextualize the work of Equipo Comunicación, revisiting the collective as a crucial agent in shaping an anti-Francoist and proto-democratic cultural sphere.
New Project: NOVA-IMAGO-ZAP
The project “Political Images and New Worlds to Build: The Visual Culture of the Zapatistas’ Journey for Life in Europe” (NOVA-IMAGO-ZAP) analyzes the creation of images by European activists during the “Journey for Life” (Mexico-Europe, 2021), focusing on their impact on collective imaginaries and social movements in Europe.