The seminar”Worlds and Hi/Stories to Come: Echoes of Visual Culture and Art History” (Saint Louis University, OCtober 22-23. 2026)provides a space for collective reflection on new ways of envisioning political and cultural futures from decentralized, transnational, and critical perspectives, with a particular focus on the role of images, archives, artistic practices, and contemporary social movements.
Zapatistas
The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality
The symposium “The Commons of Resistance: Realities of Struggle and Critical Visuality” (Casa de Francia, 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.
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.
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.