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Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

• Led the conceptualization and implementation of the program Meandering, including fellowships, commissions, residencies, and performances across multiple venues.• Coordinated teams across three countries and over sixty artists and contributors.• Co-developed a new model for performing arts acquisition and organised partnerships with cultural institutions locally and internationally.Programs: 2023 Third Margin, Deepest Spring Various locations, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain Works and contributions by Jesús Alcaide, Gracia López Anguita, Mohamad Bitari, Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Brooke Holmes, Mar Griera i Llonch, and Caique Tizzi. Performances by Lafawndah with Coby Sey, Isabel Lewis with Guillermo Castro Buendía, Carlos López Campos, Javiera de la Fuente, Helena Martos, Laila Tafur, and Rosario Vacas. 2022 An Ocean Without Shore Various locations, Córdoba, Andalusia, SpainWorks and contributions by Carolina Caycedo, Coco Fusco, Gracia López-Anguita, Juan Lopéz Intzín, Michael Marder, Claudia Pagès, Chaveli Sifre, and Medina Tenour Whiteman. Performaces by Edgar Calel, Lafawndah, Isabel Lewis, Ana María Millán, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Eduardo Navarro, and Rosa Tharrats. 2022 The Journeying Stream (co-curated with Daniela Zyman)Various locations, Córdoba, Andalusia, SpainPerformances by Seba Calfuqueo, Niño de Elche, Laia Estruch, Lafawndah, Isabel Lewis, and Eduardo Navarro.

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Led academic partnerships with the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.• Curated a weekly events program, overseeing contracts, travel arrangements, and leading planning and coordination meetings.• Launched the multi-year research and live strand Sonic Continuum, which included performance, listening sessions, sound commissions, residencies, and a new publication. • Participated in NPO funding strategy meetings and initiated a transversal working group around institutional sustainability.Selected projects:2020–21 Sonic Continuum investigated practices of world-making through sound, both as a force that constitutes the world and a medium for producing knowledge about it. Works by Space Africa, Hannah Catherine Jones, Hassan Khan, Radio Earth Hold, Lina Lapelyté, Isabel Lewis, Jota Mombaça, Bhavisha Panchia, Leyla Pillai, Diana Policarpo, Tabita Rezaire, Aura Satz, Urok Shirhan, Maxwell Sterling, Syma Tariq, Hajra Waheed, and Belinda Zhawi. Journal contributions by Andrew Brooks, Andrea Zarza Canova, Amelia Groom, Louis Henderson, Eleni Ikon, Filipa Ramos, Hypatia Volourmis, Satch Hoyt with Paul Goodwin, and Salomé Voegelin, among others. Partners included ICA London, BALTIC Gateshead, NTS Radio, and Cashmere Radio.2020–21 Five Bodies, a series of creative-critical workshops and poetry readings exploring hybrid methodologies and experimental thinking in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Jackson, Nottingham Trent University. Contributions by Mirene Arsanios, Jesse Darling, James Goodwin, Johanna Hedva, Bhanu Kapil, Donika Kelly, Lila Matsumoto, Meggie Nelson, Nisha Ramayya, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Ariana Reines, Himali Singh Soin, and Simone White. 2019 Campus was a city-wide and free independent studies programme, co-developed with Sam Thorne and Carolina Rito. Contributions by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Tina Campt, Celine Condorelli, Anselm Franke, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Quinsy Gario, and Nora Sternfeld.

Riga, Latvia

• Curated and moderated a 21-week online series of talks and discussions at the onset of the pandemic, engaging globally renowned thinkers and an audience of over 7 thousand per episode.• Oversaw coordination between speakers, a cross-functional team, and digital platforms.Program:A Glossary for Desirable FuturesContributions by Marisol de la Cadena, Federico Campagna, CA Conrad, Emanuele Coccia, Vinciane Despres, Avery F. Gordon, Jack Halberstam, Tim Ingold, André Lepecki, Sophie Lewis, Michael Marder, Astrida Neimanis, Tobias Rees, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Jackie Wang, and McKenzie Wark. Partners included MOUSSE Magazine.

Porto, Portugal

• Advised on program strategy, curated new commissions, and co-curated an international festival on critical discourse and performance.Projects:2019 Caroline Mesquita: Astray, co-commissioned with Kunsthalle Lissabon, Galeria Municipal do Porto 2018 Musa paradisiaca: Curveball Memory, Galeria Municipal do Porto 2018 Forum do Futuro: Ágora Club (co-curated with Guilherme Blanc) Serralves Museum and Rivoli Theatre, Porto, Portugal.Conference-festival with contributions by Mary Reid Kelley with Brooke Holmes, Beatriz Colomina with Eva Franch i Gilabert, Maurizio Lazzarato, Art & Language, Toyo Ito, Paul B. Preciado, and Marina Warner. Performances by Trajal Harrel and Alexandra Pirici, and performance-lectures by Ali Cheri, Kapwani Kiwanga, Walid Raad, and Slavs & Tatars.

Berlin, Germany

• Researched and wrote over 120 exhibition labels and catalogue entries related to the Congress of Cultural Freedom’s activities in Latin America, Central Europe, and West Africa.Project: “Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War”, curated by Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, Antonia Majaca

Berlin, Germany

• Coordinated academic partnerships with M.I.T. and the Max Planck Institute, contributed to the conceptual development of the artist’s work, edited monographs, and authored exhibition labels, lectures and presentation materials.

Mechelen, Flemish Region, Belgium

• Contributed to the curatorial development of Contour Biennale 8's public program, leading planning, coordinating teams, and managing execution from concept to delivery. Curated by Natasha Ginwala.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Critical Theory

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, Philosophy