courses and workshops
My experience range from teaching in universities, museums, and festivals/encuentros, as well as developing capacity trainings for institutions and international agencies. I offer regular courses, seminars, workshops and laboratories (creative research); studio and Practice-Based methodologies; as well as capacity trainings for institutions and groups.
2024 East Tennessee State University
2021 Stanford University
2014-2020 University of Barcelona, University of California, Davis
2009-2011 Ohio University (2009-2011)
as well as at Museu de l’Empordà, La Alhondiga (Bilbao), UNICEF, Matadero (Madrid),
Workshop: Somatic practices and movement explorations crafting spaces for discussion on Critical Health issues
Classroom: Current discussions grounded in exploratory and participatory exercises.
Problem posing pedagogical tools rooted in black feminists thought, queer/crip and feminist science.
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Sexualities
Moving Justice/Justice Movements (aka: current feminist debates)
Undoing the norm: Feminist Praxis and Cultural Work (aka. cultural representations of gender)
Gender, Science and Performance
An upper level undergraduate class combining seminar discussions, visualization group exercises and performance presentations and analysis. in-person
Socially engaged (performance) practice: actions and principles.
This is a semester/quarter long training. Designed for Studio practice and classroom discussion. On-line/ in-person. Upper undergraduates/ Graduates. Addressed mainly to students in the arts (art studio, performing arts, music), and open to students in STEM, social sciences and the humanities who care for social change. Socially engaged fields (community development, international relations, women and gender, ethnic studies) and medical sciences, STS, and public health. Practice and Theory in activist Art blend while we ask questions such as: whose questions matter? how do we measure change? Process or Product? Which change are we seeking exactly? We’ll review artistic approaches to social change such as participatory art, relational aesthetics, institutional critique, theatre for development, participation, collaboration and community art while addressing daily propositions on cocreation and rehearsal as socially engaged practice. Syllabus Here
Trans*posing, movement and politics workshop
3 to 6 hours workshop on practices for generating performance material while engaging issues that matter. For artists aiming to engage social practice, for activists aiming to move.
Performance for dissident bodies.
Bodily exploration exercises for entangling substances and practices into the world.
Co-sensing, rehearsals for multiple co.existences
Cosentir, experimentos sensibles para la coexistencia.
Addressed to groups and collectives aiming to work together and across difference in difficult times. How do we engage in not-knowing together? how do we attune to sensing across difference? How do we craft ecologies of exposure that enable multiple co.existences? Rehearsals as spaces to re-engage in creative and shared vulnerability.