SPECULATIVE INTERVIEWS VOL. 3

Episode 1 with Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano 
Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano is an artist, writer, and educator who investigates the encounters between ecology, technology and spirituality. With extensive research on water ecologies, digital infrastructures, telepathy, and fermentation, he has developed audiovisual, edible, editorial, and pedagogical projects, often in collaboration with others, seeking to amplify sensitive technologies beyond extraction. He has collaborated with, Espacio Odeón, Plataforma Bogotá, and Escuela de Garaje, and has taught at universities in Colombia and Europe. His work has been shown at venues such as Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Manifesta 15 (Barcelona), Momentum 13 (Moss), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), and Transmediale (Berlin), among others.

Episode 2 with Jimena Kato
Jimena Kato studied painting and drawing at Corriente Alterna School of Art and photography at Centro de la Imagen in Lima, later earning degrees in sculpture, video, and new media from ESADMM (Marseille) and Sint-Lukas (Brussels). She has exhibited in cities such as Lisbon, Warsaw, Lima, Bogotá, Brussels, and Paris. Kato has received the Nebrija University Acquisition Award (2018), grants from the Community of Madrid, and has joined residencies at Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), Matadero Madrid, and Artista x Artista (Havana).

Episode 3 with cy x
Cy X is a writer/researcher, sculpture-artist, somatic practitioner, and performance-maker, born under Southern-American skies to farmers, witches, educators, and musicians. They now live between New York City and Germany as they complete a Performance Art and Performative Practice Masters at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. They work within a PERVERTED PRACTICE, reclaiming eroticism and critical perversion as more than rebellions against social norms but rather as a method of systemic intervention. Through their work they hope to confront the ongoing, insidious processes that deny creative choreographies, somatic liberation, more-than-human intimacies, and embodied wisdoms.  

Episode 4 with Carmen Lael Hines
Carmen Lael Hines is a writer, researcher, and curator based in Madrid/Vienna. Her work engages the politics of platforms, technology, and architecture as expanded media. She studies the ways in which culture is produced and manifests itself in physical and digital environments and is interested in radical politics, popular culture and design typologies. Her research engages platform capitalism, gender/sexuality studies and theories of social reproduction which engage topics such as AI-generated pornography, home automation, femtech, sextech, and digital contraception—subjects that frequently inform the exhibitions she curates. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, and an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, titled The Plant Complex: Staging Digital Lifestyles. 

Episode 5 with Blanca Pujals 
Blanca Pujals is an architect, spatial researcher, and doctor in Philosophy, Visual and Material Cultures. Her transdisciplinary practice addresses the political and material dimensions of contemporary techno-scientific infrastructures, the geographies of power on bodies and territories and the geopolitics of materials. Her work encompasses filmmaking, architecture, lecturing, curatorial projects, pedagogy and writing. In 2024, she was awarded with no corrections her fully-funded practice-based PhD in Art and Science (Philosophy, Visual and Material Cultures) with the project 'Sensing Infrastructures: A spatial examination of soft power, the neutrino particle and underground fundamental physics laboratories' (BxNu, Northumbria University in collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK).

Episode 6 with Sam Simon
Sam Simon is a writer and translator from Oakland, California. He is an associate editor for the Barcelona Review and teaches creative writing at the Institute for American Universities. He is a co-founder and managing editor of Infrasonica.org, a digital platform dedicated to non-Western sonic art and cultures. His literary translations have appeared or are forthcoming in MAYDAY, Mantis, and Cafe Irreal.

Episode 7 with Carlos Monleón
Carlos Monleón is an artist based in Madrid whose sculptural and participatory practice draws on both living and non-living processes. His work spans microbiological, sensory, and social registers, tracing entangled systems of digestion, cognition, and cybernetic metabolism.

Episode 8 with Elizabeth Burmann Litin
Artist based in Santiago, Chile, working primarily with installations,  intervention, and interdisciplinary research. Holds an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (2020) and a BFA in Fine Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2015). She is interested in the reactions and forms of decay that emerge from the encounters between nature, industry, bodies, and environs. Her installations aim to dissolve the normative view of nature and the hierarchies that disentangle human productions from ecology, generating attention towards non-dominant materialities and thus revealing other dimensions and possibilities of coexistence.