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Kader Attia

Lives and works in Berlin and Algiers. Prior to his studies at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and at Escola Massana Centre d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America. The experience with these different cultures fostered Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to research. His socio-cultural research has led him to the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. With the principle of Repair being a constant in nature – and therefore also in humanity – any system, social institution or cultural tradition can be considered as an infinite process of Repair, which is closely linked to loss and wounds, to recuperation and re-appropriation. In 2016, he founded La Colonie, a space in Paris to share ideas and provide an agora for vivid discussion. Focussing on decolonialisation, not only of peoples but also of knowledge, attitudes and practices, he aspires to de-compartmentalise knowledge through a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational approach. Kader Attia’s work has been shown in group shows and biennials such as the 12th Shanghai Biennial; the 12th Gwangju Biennial; the 12th Manifesta, Palermo; the 57th Venice Biennial; documenta 13 in Kassel; MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2016. He is the curator of the Berlin Biennale 2022.

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Currently the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, as well as lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; curator of contemporary art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; senior curator at Creative Time in New York; and curator of contemporary art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Bolivian-German writer, curator and philosopher. He has been the artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt (Adkdw), an art institution based in Cologne, Germany, which serves as a think tank for an international network of thinkers, cultural agents and artists. He was previously director, since 2019, of the Museo Nacional de Arte – MNA, La Paz, Bolivia and in 2014 was coordinator of the Programme of Autonomous Cultural Actions (P.A.C.A.), São Paulo. Between 2008-11, he was co-curator of the exhibition Principio Potosí (MNCARS Madrid, HKW Berlin, MNA / MUSEF La Paz). He is the author of the book Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa-program in progress (Afterall / MIT Press, 2013).

Lecturers, invited guests and allied agents

Danielle Almeida

Danielle Almeida is an antiracist artivist with a Master’s Degree in Educational Sciences from the University of Monterrey. She studied the History of Africa and Afro-Brazilians at the Federal University of Minas Gerais/Casa das Áfricas and holds a degree in Music from the Federal University of Pelotas. Since 2002, her studies and work have been focused on expressions of Black culture in Latin America, anti-racist education and Afro-diasporic aesthetics. She works with civil society organisations, governments and private initiatives in different countries, developing consultancies, research and projects which focus on implementing affirmative action policies for the inclusion of different forms of diversity in the corporate and educational sectors and in arts and cultural institutions. She is also a mentor for the AFROlab Programme for Black and Indigenous Entrepreneurs and Feira Preta – the largest festival of Afro-descendant culture in Latin America. As an artist and curator, Danielle performs in educational concerts, researching and interpreting repertoires performed by Afro-Latin American singers of the 20th century. She is currently on the curatorial team for the exhibitions Vadiagens Contemporâneas: Corpos Insurgentes na Arte Contemporânea no Século XXI and Diversos for Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil and Gentilização.

Salma Amazian

Salma Amazian is a graduate in History and Social Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and is currently studying for a doctorate in Migratory Studies at the University of Granada. She researches and writes from a decolonial perspective on the intersection of race, class and gender in experiences of oppression and resistance among communities classed as “Moorish” in Spain. She is the co-author of Islamofobia de género. Islam, colonialidad, patriarcado (2017), La radicalización del racismo (2019), Engranajes de la islamofobia institucional (2021) and Racismo de Estado. Una mirada colectiva desde la autonomía y la justicia racial (2023). She also writes for media outlets including El Salto, where she contributes to the 1492 blog page, and Des del Margen. Additionally, she has worked on audiovisual productions such as Es por tu seguridad (2021) and Oro Rojo (2021).

Kader Attia

Lives and works in Berlin and Algiers. Prior to his studies at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and at Escola Massana Centre d’Art i Disseny in Barcelona, he spent several years in Congo and in South America. The experience with these different cultures fostered Kader Attia’s intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to research. His socio-cultural research has led him to the notion of Repair, a concept he has been developing philosophically in his writings and symbolically in his oeuvre as a visual artist. With the principle of Repair being a constant in nature – and therefore also in humanity – any system, social institution or cultural tradition can be considered as an infinite process of Repair, which is closely linked to loss and wounds, to recuperation and re-appropriation. In 2016, he founded La Colonie, a space in Paris to share ideas and provide an agora for vivid discussion. Focussing on decolonialisation, not only of peoples but also of knowledge, attitudes and practices, he aspires to de-compartmentalise knowledge through a trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and trans-generational approach. Kader Attia’s work has been shown in group shows and biennials such as the 12th Shanghai Biennial; the 12th Gwangju Biennial; the 12th Manifesta, Palermo; the 57th Venice Biennial; documenta 13 in Kassel; MoMA, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2016. He is the curator of the Berlin Biennale 2022.

In 1955, at the Bandung Conference held in Indonesia, newly independent countries of the Global South affirmed their solidarity against states of imperialism and the economy of extraction and dispossession. They also claimed their aspiration to find their own road to freedom and development, which some summarized as “neither Washington or Moscow.” Imperialism is still about extracting resources, and for doing so, it needs armies and police; it needs to trivialize racism and the carceral economy; it naturalizes the deaths of thousands of people from the Global South at the European borders and in the Mediterranean. Yet European societies require the exploitation of the women and men that they make vulnerable, to provide all kinds of goods and services, such as cleaning, caretaking, and delivery. It is thus important to build strong networks and routes of solidarity that respect the dignity of all.

In the spirit of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the committee of the Bandung of the North organized an international conference that was held in Paris in 2018. It was one of the first international conferences to take up the issues of People of Color who are living in the Global North. Following the conference held in Paris, a new iteration organized within the framework of PEI in 2023 will bring together artists, activists, and scholars to solidify a new political consciousness and antiracist practices. The objective is to enhance economic, ethical, spiritual, and artistic forms of transmission and imagination in which the liberation in the North adds to the liberation of the South. This new edition of a Bandung rests on decolonial and abolitionist theory. It aims to produce a rich and stimulating critique of Eurocentrism, so as to contribute to the necessary transformation of the world in a time of multiple crises. During the symposium, participants will discuss the current state of permanent war, political antiracism against police violence, colonial occupation, imperialism, and revolutionary peace.

In collaboration with La Colonie Nomade
With: Abbeey Odunlami, Andreas Malm, Francoise Vergees, Micheele Sibony, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Naeem Mohaiemen, Olivier Marboeuf, Ramoen Grosfoquel, Sandew Hira, Selim Nadi a.o.

Franco Berardi (Bifo)

Media activist and transdisciplinary philosopher, writer and cultural agitator, he has a degree in Aesthetics and trained with Félix Guattari. At present he is a lecturer in Social History of the Mass Media in the Brera Fine Arts Academy, Milan. He was a well-known activist of what was known as the autonomia operaria movement in Italy in the 1960s, and since then he has produced an insightful body of work as a critic in which he has studied the transformations of work and society caused by globalisation, especially with regard to the role of the mass media in post-industrial societies. His theoretical work goes hand in hand with his activism in the alternative media, a project he initiated by founding the publication A/traverso, a fanzine of the Movement of 1977 in Italy, after which he founded Radio Alice – the country’s first free pirate radio station – and then TV Orfeu, which gave rise to community television in Italy. He made his debut as an essayist with Contro il lavoro (Against Work, Feltrinelli, 1970), and since then he has published approximately fifty titles, some of which have been translated into Spanish. They include After the Future (AK Press, 2011), Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility (Verso, 2017), and recently published in Spanish, Fenomenología del fin (Caja Negra Editora, 2017), La segunda venida (Caja Negra, 2021), and El Umbral. Crónicas y meditaciones (Tinta Limón, 2020). His last book is The Third Unconscious: The Psychosphere in the Viral Age (Verso, 2021).His next book, Ética y estrategia de la deserción, will be published in Spanish in autumn 2023. 

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As a sociologist, editor and curator, María Berríos’ work focuses on contemporary art and culture in Latin America, with a special interest in collective cultural experiments and Third World movements during the 1960s and 1970s. She is cofounder of the editorial collective vaticanochico and has been invited as a guest lecturer to many academic, cultural and independently managed institutions in Europe and Latin America. Her most notable curatorships include Desvíos de la deriva at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2010) with Lisette Lagnado, El cuerpo del arquitecto no es el de un solo hombre at MAVI (2017) with Amalia Cross, the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020-21) alongside Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Lisette Lagnado, and En la selva hay mucho por hacer, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (2022-2023). Berríos currently serves as director of Conservation and Research at MACBA.

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Kathrin keeps calling herself an artist, and her work supports the collective re-production of public and communal spaces, economy as a public realm, and the everyday as a starting point for culture. Kathrin is a co-founder of the artist collective Myvillages, and the Centre for Plausible Economies. In 2014 she set up the community drinks enterprise, Company Drinks, in Barking and Dagenham. She is a member of the Community Economies Institute and research network and is professor of art at the Faculty of Business Management at Alanus University. Her publication Art on the scale of life has been recently launched, and she is currently co-curating Economics the Blockbuster at The Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. More information at kathrinbohm.info.

It is a place of coexistence that, with total independence, undertakes the work of living and thinking together. In the realisation of this project, artist Kader Attia intends to raise in the present the questions of the decolonisation of peoples, as well as that of knowledge, behaviours and practices. Located in a neighbourhood where African, Indian and Asian populations mingle, very close from the Gare du Nord and thus at the crossroads of Europe and the world, La Colonie aims to bring together – without exclusion and through those formidable platforms that artistic and intellectual creation can be – all identities and all histories, in particular those of minorities. During this edition of the PEI, the project will be extended under the name of La Colonie Nomade.

Susana Pilar Delahante

Cuban artist whose work focuses on the body, gender, race and social issues. The artist’s family situation sparked her interest in the reality of women, as well as the different forms of discrimination against them. These concerns led to work on the underpinnings of physical violence against Cuban women and the dearth of information on this phenomenon. Her work has been exhibited in the following biennials and international art events: the 12th Berlin Bienniale (2022), 14 Dakar Biennial (2022); Lubumbashi Biennial (2019); 12th and 13th Havana Biennial (2015, 2019).

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Currently the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). She has been the director and chief curator of The Showroom in London, as well as lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Thought Council, Fondazione Prada. She has previously been curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; curator of international art at Tate Modern, London; artistic director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; curator of contemporary art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; senior curator at Creative Time in New York; and curator of contemporary art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.

Elvira Espejo Ayca

Visual artist, weaver and narrator of the oral tradition of her place of origin (Ayllu Qaqachaka, Avaroa province, Oruro). A speaker of Aymara and Quechua, she is director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia. She is author of the following publications: Sawutuq parla (2006), the book of poems Phaqar kirki t ́ikha takiy takiy - Canto a las Flores (2006), for which she received the award for international poetess at the fourth world festival of Venezuelan poetry (2007), and Kaypi Jaqhaypi Por aquí, por allá (2018). She is co-author of Hilos sueltos: Los Andes desde el textil (2007), Ciencia de las Mujeres (2010), Ciencia de Tejer en los Andes: Estructuras y técnicas de faz de urdimbre (2012), El Textil Tridimensional: El Tejido como Objeto y como Sujeto (2013) and Tejiendo la vida: La Colección Textil del Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, según la cadena de producción (2013). In collaboration with the Bolivian musician Álvaro Montenegro, she produced the contemporary music DVDs Thakhi - La Senda Canciones a los animales (2007) and Utachk kirki - Canto a las casas (2011). She won the first prize of Eduardo Avaroa in Arts, Specialty Native Textiles, La Paz, Bolivia (2013), and the first prize of Fomento a la Creación Nativa in Literature, Specialty Poetry, within the framework of the V Festival de Arte Sur Andino Arica Barroca, Chile (2018).

Diego Falconí Trávez

Diego Falconí Trávez is a human rights lawyer and Doctor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. He is also associate professor of Literary Theory and Gender Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a researcher at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito law school. His research focuses on the analysis of literary and cultural texts as they relate to gender, decoloniality and antiracism, as well as the relationship between literature and law. He has written the academic works De las cenizas al texto: literaturas andinas de las disidencias sexuales en el siglo XX (2016) and Las entrañas del sujeto jurídico. Un diálogo entre la literatura y el derecho (2012), and co-authored Feminismos decoloniales y transformación social (2021) with Ochy Curiel. He also edited Inflexión marica. Escrituras del descalabro gay en América Latina (2019) and Me fui a volver: narrativas, autorías y lecturas teorizadas de las migraciones ecuatorianas (2014), and co-edited Resentir lo "queer" en América Latina: diálogos desde/con el sur (2014). Falconí Trávez is head of the magazine Iuris Dictio, and was awarded with the Casa de las Américas prize in 2016 in the essay category. He is also active in the sexual dissident, antiracist and migrant movement in the Kingdom of Spain.

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Philosopher, academic and artist based in Vancouver. Her writing and artistic practice address the ethical questions of the global present, targeting the metaphysical and onto-epistemological dimensions of modern thought. She is professor and director of The Social Justice Institute (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, adjunct professor of Fine Arts at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and visiting professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Toward a Global Idea of Race and co-editor of Race, Empire, and The Crisis of the Subprime (with Paula Chakravartty). Selected work includes texts for Liverpool and São Paulo Biennales (2016); Venice Bienniale (2017); and documenta 14; as well as collaborations including Return of the Vanishing Peasant, with Ros Martin; and Poethical Readings and the Sensing Salon, with Valentina Desideri. She takes part in an ongoing series of events and performances including the Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St Erme, France (2018); Artspeak, Vancouver (2017) and the 32nd São Paulo Biennale (2016). In collaboration with Arjuna Neuman, she created the film Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum (2020).

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Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American writer and interdisciplinary artist. A significant part of her work has focused on themes of colonialism, power, race, gender and history. In her work she uses her own body, not only as a space of fusion, but also as its immediate product. Through performance she creates and inhabits multiple identities in order to destabilise those which have historically been imposed on bodies by colonial, racial and gender-based forces. She also engages with legacies of Cuban exile through Catholic rituals and experiences of displacement. Her works have been presented at the 56th Biennale di Venezia, the Whitney Biennial in New York, and the Sydney Biennial. More information at cocofusco.com.

Verónica Gago

Teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of San Martín and is a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She is the author of La razón neoliberal. Economías barrocas y pragmática popular (Tinta Limón / Traficantes de Sueños, 2015) and La potencia feminista. O el deseo de cambiarlo todo (Tinta Limón / Traficantes de Sueños, 2019); and editor of La Internacional Feminista (Tinta Limón / Traficantes de Sueños, 2020). She has been part of the militant research collective Situaciones,and currently of the feminist collective NiUnaMenos. Her research focuses on international feminist social movements and the critique of neoliberal thinking.

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Helios F. Garcés is an independent researcher and writer. His work and areas of interest fall within the fields of critical literature, the politics of race in cultural reproduction, the impact of race and capitalism on non-white communities, and the coordination of autonomous liberation narratives and anti-racist solidarity movements. He has focused on critical analysis of antigypsyism. He is the author of the poetry collections Entrevista a un insecto atravesado por la luz (2021) and Mi abuela no ha leído a Marx (2019). He also contributed to the book Miradas en torno al problema colonial. Pensamiento anticolonial y feminismos descoloniales en los Sures Globales (2019).

Nancy Garín

Nancy Garín Guzmán is a journalist and art historian whose projects relate to critical thinking, new forms of pedagogy, archives, memory and colonialism. She has also previously completed the MACBA Independent Studies Programme (PEI). As a member of the artist collective Etcétera and Internacional Errorista, she has taken part in events and exhibitions such as the Istanbul Biennial (2009), the Taipei Biennial (2008), PUBLICTRANSITarPÚBLICos (USA/Mexico, 2007), Ex-Argentina (2006), Pasos para huir del trabajo al hacer (Cologne, 2004) and Kollektive Kreativität (Kassel, 2005). She has participated in research groups such as Península: Procesos coloniales y prácticas artísticas y curatoriales (2012 -2018) and Contraimaginarios (Postpandémicos) (2022-2023). She is part of the research and production platforms Equipo re (2010–present), with whom she has been developing the Anarchivo sida project , and the Espectros de lo Urbano group (2017–present), who focus on the urban environment as a part of colonial machinery and the predatory processes of capitalism.

Cristina Goberna Pesudo

Cristina Goberna Pesudo is an architect, founder of the studio Architectural Agonism, critic and university professor living between New York and Barcelona. Her work uses a variety of media to explore the potential of Agonism to shine a light into spaces often forgotten by the field of architecture. Her work has been widely published, exhibited at international biennials and acquired by the permanent collections of the Centre George Pompidou (Paris) and the Chicago Art Institute (Chicago). She has taught at Columbia University GSAPP (New York), MIT (Boston), Cooper Union (New York), Royal College of Art (London) and Sydney UTS (Sydney), among others. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Saas-Fee European Graduate School (Switzerland), professor at the BAU (Barcelona) and the IE University (Madrid), and an architecture critic for the Spanish magazine Contexto y Acción (Ctxt)

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Sociologist, writer, researcher and university professor. Graduated in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico, with a doctorate from Temple University, based in Philadelphia (USA). He has become a world reference with the project of which he is the founder, Decolonity Europe. Grosfoguel's research is linked to the philosophy of Latin American liberation, to the perspective of the coloniality of power and to the search for new orientations of non-Eurocentric knowledge. He is currently a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Berkeley. He has published, among other academic texts: El giro decolonial. Reflexiones para una diversidad epistémica más allá del capitalismo global (2007), co-edited with Santiago Castro-Gómez; and Colonial Subjects: Puerto Rican Subjects in Global Perspective (2003).

Paz Guevara

Paz Guevara is a curator, researcher, author and educator. She works as a curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and is part of the «curatorial ensemble» at Archive, both in Berlin. Additionally, she teaches a Master’s degree in Spatial Strategies at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule, also in Berlin. Guevara was also the curator of Transition Exhibition, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, 2021–22; co-curator of Publishing Practices, Archive, Berlin, 2021–2022; curator of Afro-Sonic Mapping: Tracing Aural Histories via Sonic Transmigrations, HKW, Berlin, 2019, and co-curator of Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, HKW, Berlin, 2017–18, among others. She has taken part in many discussions, and has published works in conversation with the Mapuche poet elder Elicura Chihuailaf (NIRIN NGAAY, Biennale of Sydney, 2020) and with the artist, musician and composer Satch Hoyt (Afro-Sonic Mapping, Archive Books, 2022).

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Bolivian-German writer, curator and philosopher. He has been the artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt (Adkdw), an art institution based in Cologne, Germany, which serves as a think tank for an international network of thinkers, cultural agents and artists. He was previously director, since 2019, of the Museo Nacional de Arte – MNA, La Paz, Bolivia and in 2014 was coordinator of the Programme of Autonomous Cultural Actions (P.A.C.A.), São Paulo. Between 2008-11, he was co-curator of the exhibition Principio Potosí (MNCARS Madrid, HKW Berlin, MNA / MUSEF La Paz). He is the author of the book Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa-program in progress (Afterall / MIT Press, 2013).

Photo by Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir is an artist, writer and filmmaker whose work involves a variety of strategies including film, photography, sculpture, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing and sound, where she explores histories of colonisation, exchange, questions of translation, transformation, resistance and movement. She has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and is deeply committed to creating alternative spaces for knowledge production. She directs the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Research Center for Art and Research in Bethlehem, which she co-founded. She received the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Prince Claus Award (2007), the Herb Alpert Award (2011) and the Rome Prize (2015). She has also displayed her production in DOCUMENTA (13) (2012), in several biennials, at the New York Guggenheim and MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.

Achille Mbembe

Professor of History and Politics and researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Born in Cameroon in 1957, he taught History at Columbia University (New York) and the University of Pennsylvania and has also directed the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), based in Dakar. He is a well-known author, both for his articles in the Spanish versions of Le Monde Diplomatique and for his contributions to the books coordinated by Gilles Kepel, The Politics of God (The Proliferation of the Divine in Sub-Saharan Africa); Jérôme Bindé, Where do Values Go: 21st Century Talks (“On Racism as a Practice of the Imagination”); Fernando López Castellano, Development: Chronicle of a Permanent Challenge (“Power, Violence and Accumulation”); and Okwui Enwezor, Lo desacogedor. Escenas fantasmas en la sociedad global (“Necropolítica”). He also published the influential book De la postcolonie, essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine (‘On the Postcolony’, 2000).

Sarah Nuttall

Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Before taking up this position in 2013, she was a senior researcher at the same institute from 2000 to 2010. Having received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Natal and a master’s degree from the University of Cape Town, Nuttall was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to obtain a doctorate at Oxford University, which she completed in 1994. Between 1997 and 2001, Nuttall was a lecturer at the English department of the University of Stellenbosch. She has held visiting professorships at Yale University, Duke University, as well as at the University of Salzburg, and was a visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bolivian cultural agent and researcher and director of La Plurinacional XXI. She is co-founder of the PCP - Political Culture Program and advises various social and editorial projects with a vision of intercultural dialogue. She works in the field of cultural policies and the management and production of projects for national and international cultural centers and spaces. She is a member of the social advocacy group for the prevention of symbolic violence. She writes in columns and magazines on cultural management.

pcp

Is a thinking laboratory dedicated to rethink and materialize culture as an indispensable tool to contribute to the processes and practices that shape life, economy and politics in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The PCP works on culture through publications, consultancies, and the conceptualization and realization of educational seminars and workshops.

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Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst and writer, and since 1979 has been a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. She dedicates herself to researching systems of unconscious dominance in the colonial, racist, patriarchal, capitalist world order, working from a transdisciplinary theoretical perspective that is inextricably linked to a clinical, aesthetic, and political praxis of resisting the daily abuse that lies at the heart of this order. The following works of hers have been published in Spanish: Esferas de la insurrección. Apuntes para descolonizar el inconsciente (2019), Antropofagia Zombi (2022), Cartografía sentimental (Tinta Limón, in press), and Micropolítica. Cartografías del deseo (2006), co-authored with Félix Guattari. 

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Tania Safura Adam is a journalist, curator and researcher. She is the founder of Radio Africa, a cultural platform for critical thinking and dissemination of black arts and cultures. Her work explores black diasporas, migrations and African music. Through multidisciplinary practice, she injects alternative narratives about the African continent and the heterogeneity of blackness in the collective imaginary, with the ultimate goal of answering the questions and difficulties that emerge from how black cultures and people fit socially in Spain and the rest of Europe. She is currently leading the research project “España Negra. Viaje hacia la negritud en el espacio-tiempo” (“Black Spain. Journey towards blackness in space-time”). Since 2018, she has been leading the Iberian Black Studies research group at MNCARS.

Photo Rolando Vázquez

Rolando Vázquez is a decolonial educator, thinker and frequent guest speaker at conferences on decoloniality at cultural and academic institutions. At present, Vázquez is an associate professor of sociology at University College Roosevelt, in Utrecht. Since 2010, he has, together with Walter Mignolo, co-directed the Decolonial Summer School, hosted by the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In 2016 he co-authored the Let’s do Diversity report for the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission under the supervision of Gloria Wekker. Vázquez’s work puts the question of ethical living at the center of decolonial thought, and advocates for the decolonial transformation of cultural and educational institutions. His most recent publication is Vistas de la modernidad: La estética decolonial y el fin de lo contemporáneo (2020).

Françoise Vergès

Is a writer, independent curator and antiracist and decolonial feminist activist. Though her publications show a wide area of interests, she focuses on the fabrication of consent and dissent, the understanding of systems of racial and gendered domination, systemic violence, the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and resistances. Her recent publications are Programme de désordre absolu. Décoloniser le musée, (2023), A Feminist Theory of Violence (2022), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), De la violence coloniale dans l’espace public (2021), The Wombs of Women, Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black. Conversations with Françoise Vergès (2020). Following a BA (San Diego, 1986) and a PhD (Berkeley, 1995) she taught at Sussex in 1996 and Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2000-2007. She was President of the French National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery 2008-2012 and project advisor for documenta 11. 

Collectives with whom we propose to work: Archivo Ovni, Equipo Palomar, Kas Kultural Arts Society (Awa Konaté), Diversorium (Antonio Centeno, María Oliver and Veronica Valentini), Living Commons, Cooperativa Periferia Cimarronas, Radio Cavaret, Ràdio Web MACBA, Red Pluridiversidad Nómada, among many others.

Provisional list. Unless otherwise specified, participation is on-site. In case of unexpected situations, online participation will be possible.


PEI Team

Assistant professor

Ingrid Blanco

Academic secretary

Cristina Mercadé

Assistant Curator of Academic Programmes

Myriam Rubio