Faculty
The faculty of
This transdisciplinary composition is not accidental; it reflects our conviction that the urgent questions we want to address cannot be resolved from a single field of knowledge, but require a dialogue between contextualized, sensitive, and at times contradictory ways of thinking and creating.
Peruvian writer, poet, and chronicler based in Spain, recognized as one of the most influential voices in contemporary Latin American literature. Her work explores the body, identity, colonialism, and gender, and has received major international awards. She writes from the first person as a method: turning intimacy into a place to think through colonial heritage and the ways desire, race, and power become entangled.
Argentine politician, known for having been the youngest legislator in the history of Latin America. A leading figure of Patria Grande, she also develops audiovisual projects addressing social and political issues from a contemporary perspective.
Kurdish-Turkish conceptual artist based between Amsterdam and Istanbul. His multidisciplinary practice addresses migration and institutional critique, often with humor; he represented Turkey at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Researcher and international reference in artificial intelligence, digital ethics, and human rights, affiliated with Tecnológico de Monterrey, Harvard, and UNESCO.
American scholar and author, professor at Columbia University, a world reference in queer theory and trans studies. Author of "Female Masculinity" and "The Queer Art of Failure."
Collective founded in 2000 by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, recognized for redefining the boundaries of contemporary theater. Their works combine immersive formats, participatory devices, and collaborations with specialists whose expertise comes from fields beyond theater.
National General Secretary of AMMAR and one of the leading advocates for sex workers' rights in the country. She founded Casa Roja, a community assistance center, and is the author of Puta Feminista and Vidas de Putas.
Her work explores memory, sexual difference, class, and forms of belonging from a critical perspective. She is the author of books such as PornoBurka and Pensamiento Monógamo Terror Poliamoroso, and has built a notable career in writing, dramaturgy, and international research..
Colombian biologist, former director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute and rector of EAN University. A world reference in biodiversity and sustainability, and the first trans woman to lead a university in Colombia.
One of Latin America's most acclaimed writers, a contributor to international outlets such as El País, Gatopardo, and Granta. Author of an extensive body of work translated into several languages, she has received notable awards for books such as La llamada.
Co-directs the Forensic Architecture office in Athens and teaches forensic and investigative architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths). She specializes in spatial analysis and digital reconstruction of scenes of state violence and environmental crimes.
Mathematician, independent-living activist, and leading advocate for the rights of people with functional diversity. He has driven artistic and audiovisual projects such as Yes, We Fuck and Vivir y otras ficciones, focused on inclusion and diversity.
An artistic duo based in Europe working across performance, theater, choreography, and writing. They research the body, violence, memory, and fiction, and are central collaborators on the Trilogia Cadela Força, created by Bianchi together with her company CARA DE CAVALO. In 2025, Bianchi was awarded the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale of Dance.
Philosopher, CONICET researcher, and professor at the University of Buenos Aires. She works on the matter of art through the philosophies of animality, plant life, and mineral life (from a post-anthropic perspective).
Activist, writer, and leading figure of the Mapuche Nation. Known for her defense of territories, Indigenous rights, and Buen Vivir. Founder of several organizations and movements, she is the author of El tren del olvido and Terricidio, works translated into several languages.
One of Chile's most prominent actors, internationally recognized for his roles in film and television, he has starred in films by directors such as Pablo Larraín and received awards including the Platino and the Biznaga de Plata. His work approaches the body as archive: a place where memory, power, and collective wounds become scenic material, and from which acting becomes a way of reading the present.
Consultant, researcher, and educator specializing in political ecology and education for sustainability. Author of more than thirty books, she links research with work on ecological transition policy through the Garúa cooperative and various Spanish universities. Her perspective starts from an uncomfortable fact: material life depends on biophysical limits that modernity learned to ignore.
Research agency founded in 2010 by Eyal Weizman at Goldsmiths, University of London. It brings together architects, artists, filmmakers, and scientists who use architecture as a tool to investigate state violence and environmental crimes.
CONICET researcher and leading figure of Ni Una Menos. Her work focuses on the indebtedness of women and dissidents, and the relationship between gender-based violence and economic precarity. Co-author of Una lectura feminista de la deuda, she thinks of debt as a silent form of government: the point where finance enters domestic life, the body, and reproductive time.
Born in 2015 after a wave of femicides, it became a rallying cry echoed across Latin America against gender-based violence. More than a slogan, it functioned as a language-producing machine: it reorganized the categories used to name labor, debt, and desire, and made thinkable what had previously remained in the realm of the private.
Their work addresses ageism, queer theory, and contemporary forms of relating. Author of Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto, they are currently working on Trans Despair. Their thinking challenges the norms that order the timeline of life, age, partnership, or reproduction, to imagine bonds that don't answer to the calendar.
Professor at Louisiana State University, she was spokesperson for the LIGO project and led the team that detected gravitational waves in 2015, a discovery awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017. Her work gave the universe a sound: it confirmed that spacetime vibrates and opened a new way of perceiving what no image could show.
Non-binary artist, choreographer, DJ, and activist of Algerian origin who uses dance as a political tool to question colonialism, fascism, and gender norms. Their work fuses identity, culture, and performance, notably in projects such as Decolonize the Dancefloor, also published as a book.
Since 2005, they have developed projects combining art, institutional critique, and performance, blurring the boundaries between disciplines and roles. Their practice questions the figure of the individual author: it makes shared work a method for thinking of identity as something built collectively.
Poet, translator specializing in classical literature, and professor of philosophy and critical thinking, she combines criticism with self-managed publishing. She thinks of the body as a battlefield of affects: she takes philosophy outside the text and turns it into a practice that is exercised, trained, and lived.
Archivo de la Memoria TransArgentina — Collective archive project
Gathers photographs, documents, and objects that recover the history of the Argentine trans and travesti community, built in the first person from collective memory. Facing a history marked by persecution and erasure, it turns preservation into an act of survival: keeping one's own image as a way of existing.
Julián Posada is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and co-director of the certificate in Computing, Culture, and Society at Yale University. His research examines the social and cultural dimensions of information, especially the role of labor and infrastructure in the development of artificial intelligence.