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JOAQUIN BARRIENDOS
MEXICO, 1973Researcher, educator, artist, and writer. My projects explore the interplays between environmental humanities, creative ecology, and aesthetics of care. I have 20 years of experience promoting and teaching artistic research, with an emphasis on decolonial ecocriticism, hydro-poetics, architectural thinking, and art history. I have collaborated with museums such as MoMA, MET, Center Pompidou, Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), Reina Sofía, Gulbenkian Foundation, Pinacoteca do Estado do Sao Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile, University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC ), San Agustín Arts Center (Oaxaca), ExTeresa Arte Actual, Havana Biennial, Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Neuberger Museum (NY), the documenta of Kassel (Germany), ARCO (Madrid). In 2016 I was invited by the Secretary of Culture of Mexico to propose the curatorial project for the representation of Mexico at the Venice Biennale. As an educator I specialize in alternative pedagogies and museum studies with an emphasis on ecological transition and creative art archives. My published work has been translated into German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian.
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ANA PAULA MONTES
COSTA RICA, 1978Architect and urbanist trained at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), working at the intersection of public space, research-based art activism, and visual culture. She has written on art as a subjective urban condition of inhabiting. Her work critically engages with collective initiatives emerging outside conventional urban planning, particularly from activist and cultural-artistic spheres. She foregrounds the transformative potential of micro-scale artistic practices as situated and collaborative modes of city-making. She has taught at various universities such as School of Art and Visual Communication at the National University of Costa Rica, Graduate Program of the Faculty of Arts and Design (FAD), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has awarded with art residencies such as at the Metropolitan Social Laboratory, L’Estruch Creation Center and Live Arts (Sabadell City Council, Barcelona), and was conferred grants such as the Creative Fund for the funded art–science project OMH Hydropoetic Measurement Observatory, a mixed-media installation developed in collaboration with FEMSA and the Art, Science, and Technology Laboratory at the Monterrey Institute of Technology.