Member of the Executive Committee

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Lucía Piedra Galarraga

Lucía Piedra Galarraga (Havana, Cuba). Her practices can be understood as a discursive and creative activity, a methodology open to articulating devices with many shapes. Such interactions can range from unconventional pedagogies (courses offered by the Institute of Afro-Black Practices and Activisms) up to publications of critical pieces (to the press, books, blogs or fanzines), mapping and crafting pieces for installations (maps and rituals of fiction) or articulations between text and sound, which currently is in a very experimental estate (articulation between sounds of the Eastern Bloc and the Caribbean). And through these practices, she is interested in addressing how black bodies are legislated and represented as an underlying and extended model of submission, the construction of social grammars in relation to the topographies of thought, enemy relationships and their multiple reconfigurations in contemporary society, spaces of negotiation, spaces of enjoyment, speculative fiction, narrative intersections between text, sound and image; and forms of representation that reorganize the counter-narration.

Lucía is a researcher, an independent curator, an associate professor at the UOC Open University of Catalonia and the University of the Arts in Ecuador, and a coordinator in the Group of Afro-Black Thoughts, Practices and Activisms, currently associated with the MACBA, but in talks of co-operativising. Lecturer at the MACBA 2021-2022 Independent Studies Programme. Her research and projects are approached with a post-colonial or decolonial perspective, and defined by anti-racist activism, interculturality and the intersection among forms of governance and representation, critical thought and feminisms. MA Degree in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (UAB) and Museology, and a graduate in the University of Arts of Cuba. She is currently working on her pre-doctoral research.