This talk offered a thoughtful and emotional account of the work carried out by the Peruvian curator over the last six years and the ways in which curatorial and collective work intersect, focusing mainly on his experience in Central America. Through a first-person narrative, López reflected on the challenge of developing editorial and exhibition programmes that produce situated knowledge and build bridges between the local and the international, and what it meant to be part of a process that transformed the working structure and governance of TEOR/éTica towards a model of collective leadership.

Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and independent curator. His practice focuses primarily on collective processes, experimental art, feminist art, and issues of gender and sexuality as they intersect with processes of political memory. He has published books such as Robar la historia, Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Stealing History: Counter-Narratives and Artistic Practices of Opposition, 2017) and Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny, 2019).