SPECULATIVE INTERVIEWS VOL. 2

Episode 1 with Valeria Mata
Valeria Mata is a researcher and social anthropologist. Her work has focused on the intersections between artistic practices and anthropology, the political and cultural dimension of food and the anthropology of travel and tourism. She has coursed studies at the Complutense University in Madrid, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. From 2015 until 2019 she directed the project MUEVE, a roaming platform for independent publications from Latin America. In 2018, she published Plagie, copie, manipule, robe, reescriba este libro (Plagiarize, Copy, Modify, Steal, Rewrite This Book), a book-length essay about copies and plagiarism as critical tools in visual art and literature.

Episode 2 with Júlia Ayerbe & Yuji Kawasima
Júlia Ayerbe is a curator, editor, and researcher specializing in feminism, publishing practices, and functional diversity. She was Senior Editor at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo for over five years, producing publications in collaboration with institutions such as Tate, Museu de Serralves, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and MNCARS. She co-managed the independent publishing house Edições Aurora for five years, publishing works on art, feminism, queer politics, and urban studies. Together with artist Costa Badía, she co-leads equipoDIVERSO, a research group exploring intersections between museums, art, and functional diversity.
Yuji Kawasima holds a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. His research, teaching, and curatorial work focus on contemporary art and design, particularly within Latin American and queer cultural contexts. His doctoral thesis on Brazilian artist Leonilson examined queer and migrant experiences and led to collaborations on the artist’s critical catalog, academic publications, and an upcoming monograph with Editorial Cátedra. Alongside his art research, Kawasima explores intersections between fashion and art, with studies on Comme des Garçons and recent training in artisanal tailoring at La Confianza Spanish Tailoring School.

Episode 3 with alfonso borragán 
alfonso borragán, multidisciplinary artist. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and later continued his training at the MFA Slade School of Fine Arts (London) where he completed his PhD. He works and lives in London. His practice is articulated between research, teaching and production. He explores and activates relational processes, physical and metaphysical, with the earth, usually though collective processes and collective actions. As an artist, he tries to channel an experience, building situations and devices that are born to be consumed and that try to modify the perception of reality, interfere or expand it. These develop at a symbiotic level with humans, through a correspondence that is activated through them and disappears with them.

Episode 4 with Laura Mema
Born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Laura Mema is a visual artist and researcher based in Madrid. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Córdoba and the Complutense University of Madrid. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as MACBA and Centro Conde Duque, as well as in galleries including Fresh Gallery and Nora Fisch. Alongside her visual practice, she has developed workshops exploring connections with the invisible world around us through vibrational activations linked to different species in nature and healing frequencies using cymatic instruments, tuning forks, crystals, and the integration of Kundalini yoga and color as pathways to the intangible.

Episode 5 with María Morata
María Morata  has curated artistic and audiovisual projects for institutions such as Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), CCCB, MACBA, Steirischer Herbst, Impakt Festival, and La Casa Encendida. A lecturer in film and video art at several universities, she has served on selection committees for the Berlinale Shorts, DOK Leipzig, and Kasseler DokFest. Her research focuses on experimental cinema, contemporary audiovisual practices, and the relationship between media technologies and human and non-human agents within post-anthropocentric theory. 

Episode 6 with Coco Moya
Coco Moya is an artist and musician. Her research focuses on how technology, culture, and nature intersect in the landscape through music and sonic metaphors. She develops her artistic practice both individually and as part of the collective Menhir, alongside musician Iván Cebrián, with whom she has exhibited at institutions such as Azkuna Centroa (Bilbao), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), the Museum of Art of Viana (Porto), Forsøgsstationen (Copenhagen), and Playgrad (Bulgaria), among many others.