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Nancy Garín

is an independent journalist, art researcher and curator developing projects related to critical thinking, new pedagogies, archival research, memory and decolonial theory. She was a member of the Etcetera art collective (Argentina) and the Errorist International movement, with which she participated in different exhibitions and biennials from 2000. In Barcelona she completed the Independent Studies Program (PEI) at the MACBA and co-founded Equipo re, a research platform on the intersection between body and archive policies that brought the AIDS Anarchive into existence, a project on artistic practices and political activism related to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s. This project led to the organization of various events between 2012 and 2018, including exhibitions at Tabakalera (2016), Conde Duque (2017) and CED-MACBA (2018–2019). Between 2012 and 2017 she also participated in the research group “Peninsula. Procesos coloniales y prácticas artísticas y curatoriales” based at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. Recently, since 2017 she is running the Espectros de lo Urbano project, a research and pedagogical space focused on the urban phenomenon as a privileged ally of the predatory processes of capitalism and the neoliberal agenda linked to the colonial machinery. Some of Garín’s writings can be found in the collective volume Subversiones artísticas en regímenes totalitarios y otras formas de intervencionismo estatal, edited by Laia Manonelles Moner and Vícor Ramírez Tur (Palma: UIB, 2018) and in the Talking to Action research platform blog linked to the Otis College of Art and Design (2014). She currently focuses on initiatives and experiences linked to critical pedagogy through art and teaching—mainly seminars and workshops in different institutions as well as participating in publications and exhibitions
Other texts by Nancy Garín for DIAPHANES
  • artistic practice
  • global ecology
  • rhetoric / elocution
  • resistance
  • politics
  • contemporary art