Archives of the Commons VI

Participants

• Lucía Esperanza Bianchi

  is a graphic artist, archivist and teacher. After studying at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) and, with a study grant, at the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, she has been part of the group Cuatro//// Intervenciones Gráficas and the graphic cooperative La Voz de la Mujer, as well as developing the collective project Romero Archive for/to come and the Colectiva Editora Des-bordes. She is currently coordinator of the Southern Conceptualisms Network, where she articulates research, archives and editorial projects linked to political memory and artistic practices in Latin America.

• Lucía Cañada

  holds a PhD in Art History and Theory and is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Her research focuses on the link between artistic practices and education during the dictatorships in Latin America. Since 2025 she has been in charge of cataloguing the political graphic art collection from the Juan Carlos Romero Archive. She is also part of the Southern Conceptualisms Network node and develops the Romero Archive for/to come project.

• Marjolaine David Briand

  is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and Bordeaux Montaigne University. Her research focuses on artistic and political forms of occupying urban space developed by artistic, sexual-dissident and feminist activisms in Argentina from 2001 to 2021. She is part of the Southern Conceptualisms Network Archive node and the team of Red Constelaciones, an activism and research project which looks to create a digital archive tool of aesthetics and poetics in street interventions and struggles from Argentina.

• Bertha Díaz

  is a researcher, teacher and independent editor who currently lives in Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Research in the Arts, Humanities and Education from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Díaz co-directs the publisher Manso Rojo Ediciones and is a member of the research group ARTEA and the International Network of Latin American and European Theatre Researchers (RITTLE). She has worked with art platforms in Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, France, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Mexico, and, through live arts, her work experiments with ties between bodies, thought and writings, focusing on their sensorial, affective and political dimensions.

• Awel Haouati

  is a researcher in Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Her work centres on press photography during the 1990s war in Algeria. In 2019 she founded the project Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie (Archives of Women’s Struggles in Algeria), which she manages jointly with Saadia Gacem, a fellow researcher in anthropology. She also works as an independent writer and photographer.

• Marta María Hernangómez

  holds a degree in Geography and History, an MA in Electronic Administration and Government, and is a civil servant in the Faculty Corps of Archivists, Librarians and Archaeologists. She collaborates with the project Aulas con Memoria (Classrooms with Memory), from the Association to Recover Historical Memory, and with the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation. Currently, she is the director of the Historical Archive of Social Movements, a state archive created in 2021, under Spain’s Ministry of Culture, with the sole remit of preserving documentary and bibliographic heritage generated and conserved by different organisations and social movements in contemporary Spain, making it available to the public.

• Ana Longoni

  is a writer, lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), curator and researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. She was director of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Public Activities Department from 2018 to 2021. Moreover, she is one of the founders of the Southern Conceptualisms Network and develops the Romero Archive for/to come project. She holds a PhD in Argentinian art, specialising in the crossover of art and politics in Latin America from the 1960s to the present.

• Ivette Quezada

  is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research reflects on memory and the influence of artistic and creative practices in questioning notions of cultural heritage and the ways in which history in violent contexts is perceived and represented. Since 2022, she has worked in collaboration with the Casa de la Mujer de Huamachuco, linked to arpilleras and their creation, circulation and archiving.

• Maria Mallol

  works in the Tentacular Museum Department of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Study Directorship.

• Guille Mongan

  is an art historian, independent researcher, curator, teacher and artist. She obtained a degree in Visual Arts History from the Arts Faculty at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP), in La Plata, Argentina, and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from MNCARS/UAM Madrid, and at present she is a PhD candidate in History at the Escuela Interdisciplinaria de Altos Estudios Sociales (IDAES) from the Universidad de San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina. She is a member of the artistic activism collective Serigrafistas Queer and the Southern Conceptualisms Network platform for research, debate and collective positions, where she currently works as a coordinator.

• Mario Rodríguez Dávila

  is a film-maker, cultural manager, artistic researcher and co-director of the publisher Manso Rojo Ediciones. His filmography has been shown in France, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, England, Colombia and Ecuador, while his works move between archive and documentary fiction, as well as the search for memory and individual and collective poetic-political history, with not only people at the centre but also exterior and interior landscapes and geographies. He is currently studying an MA in Communication Sciences at Universidad Nova de Lisboa, specialising in Film and Television, while he works on his film projects.

• Tania Romero Barrios

  is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies, specialising in Gender Studies, at the University of Paris 8, and holds a degree in Quechua Language and Literature from INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales). She is a member of the LER (Laboratoire d’Études Romanes) labs and CERLOM (Centre d’Ètude et de Recherche sur les Littératures et les Oralités du Monde), and coordinates the multilingual museographic project Warmikuna - voces, rostros y memorias. Her research focuses on Peruvian literature in Spanish and Quechua, memory, political violence and Latin American feminisms.

• Ana Kutleša

  is an art historian, researcher and curator. She is a member of the curatorial collective [BLOK], founded in Zagreb in 2001, which aims to democratise art and culture, articulating resistance against privatisation attempts. In 2018 she started The Trešnjevka Neighborhood Museum project, working jointly with the community from the Trešnjevka neighbourhood to build a virtual collection of artistic, cultural and political productions to vindicate the memory of people living in the area, a working-class neighbourhood whose history has been omitted from national archives and institutions.

• Laura Pelayo

  is head of the Museo Reina Sofía’s Library and Documentation Centre. With a PhD in Art History and Theory from the Autonomous University of Madrid, her professional career as a researcher in contemporary art goes hand in hand with her growing interest in the possibilities that libraries and archives offer culture and the development of contemporary artistic practices. Since 2019 she has worked in the Museo’s Library and Documentation Centre, focusing on archives, dissemination and driving forward research activity.