SPECULATIVE INTERVIEWS VOL. 1

Episode 1 with Pablo Durango 
Pablo Durango explores the interplay between power and language through a playful lens, weaving together queer biologies, cyborg philosophy, and dystopian imaginaries. The practice investigates how reality is structured into categories that shape bodies and their political performativity. Through speculation, fantasy, and the posthuman alter ego “Onyx,” Durango constructs parallel realities where language becomes fluid and the boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve. The works, activated through affective and participatory engagement, invite viewers and listeners to rethink identity, perception, and the environments they inhabit.

Episode 2 with Fabiana Vinagre
Fabiana Vinagre is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural manager whose work intersects critical pedagogy and contemporary artistic practices, with a focus on sound art and performance. Exploring the physical and virtual layers of body and language, she uses sensory experience as an artistic tool to question colonial systems and generate embodied forms of knowledge. 

Episode 3 with Costa Badía
Costa Badía’s artistic practice focuses on validating mistakes and challenging stereotypes of beauty and behavior. Her work seeks alternative paths by exploring coexistence between normative and non-normative people. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master’s in Artistic Education in Social and Cultural Institutions from the same university. 

Episode 4 with Javier Cruz
Javier Cruz is a Spanish artists who holds a degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Research in Art and Creation from the Complutense University of Madrid, with studies in Granada, Utrecht, and Oxford. His work—both individually and with Elgatoconmoscas and PLAYdramaturgia—has been presented at Museo Reina Sofía, CA2M, La Casa Encendida, and Matadero Madrid. Currently teaching at Escuela TAI/Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and the MA in Performing Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía/UCLM), he is represented by Galería Luis Adelantado (Valencia) and recently presented Kobold (2023) and Fina hoja de metal at Conde Duque.

Episode 5 with María Jerez
María Jerez’s work moves between choreography, cinema, and the visual arts, exploring the spectator’s role as a space where representational conventions are questioned. Since 2004, through works such as The Case of the Spectator, Blob, Yabba, and The Stain, she has transformed this relationship from understanding theatrical and cinematic codes to embracing disorientation and strangeness. Her practice focuses on encounters with the unfamiliar as spaces of transformation, proposing processes of de-identification and fragility that blur the boundaries between self and other. 

Episode 6 with María Acaso
María Acaso is a cultural worker who combines writing, research, and teaching to foster critical thinking around visual culture, the arts, and education. Since 2002, she has been a tenured professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, a position she paused between 2018 and 2024 to serve as Head of Education at the Museo Reina Sofía. Alongside these roles, she has collaborated in the collective rethinking of art education through Pedagogías Invisibles. She is the author of La educación artística no son manualidades (Catarata, 2009), Art Thinking: How Art Can Transform Education (Paidós, 2017), and Visual Sovereignty: A Guide to Self-Managing Images (Paidós, 2022).