@Criticaldías is an artistic research group formed by Anyely Marín Cisneros and Rebecca Close. Since 2013 they have been teaching workshops, curatorial projects, and collective performances in which they activate research from feminist methodologies and critical pedagogies. Their lines of research revolve around the politics of memory that seek to restore the multiplicity of voices silenced by certain dominant narratives, challenging the archive and the museum as apparatuses of power and questioning their modes of operation from anti-colonial challenges. They have received grants from the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (2017-2019) and have been awarded the Miquel Casablancas Prize (2017).
Anyely Marín Cisneros studied Letters at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and has lived in Barcelona since 2012. She combines research with teaching, she dynamizes training spaces on decolonial methodologies, black feminisms and anti-racist strategies. She researches in the field of body politics and its link with the racial logics of science. She holds a master's degree in Critical Theory and Museum Studies and is a student in the History of Science doctoral program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she currently teaches in the history, gender and medicine seminar.
Rebecca Close works at the intersection of art, technology, critical pedagogy and poetry. Her videos, workshops, ceramic installations, creative coding experiments and poems often address everyday experiences of the internet interface, notions of network and the viral as they traverse and inform social relations, sexuality and the familiar. She studied at the Independent Studies Program at MACBA in Barcelona (2012). Her doctoral thesis Post-Internet Queer Reproductive Work (2023, Aalto Uni Arts) was supported by Kone Foundation Finland, and she was recently a Visiting Scholar at ReproSoc at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the collections of poems Valid, Virtual, Vegetable Reality (Melita Hume Prize, 2017) and Replica (Canal, 2022).
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