Four experts will select the winning project of the ‘Youth Art for Sustainability Call for Proposals’.’
Along with the coordinator of Concomitentes, Fran Quiroga; Pepa Octavio from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation; and Maral Kekejian, from the Coordination Office of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, will be Carmen Haro, Christian Alonso, María Sánchez and Matías Rubio. The call seeks to initiate a new participatory artistic process that addresses an environmental challenge.
From Concomitentes we share the profile and trajectory of the panel of experts that will select the winning project of the ‘Youth Art for Sustainability Call’:
Carmen Haro. Professor and researcher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid and Director of Redes por el clima. Carmen is author and co-author of several writings on technopolitics and activism, ecology, citizen science and social laboratories. Her action-research approach has focused on the development of open, sustainable and collaborative cultural processes in different contexts. From self-management to university and institutional environments and public-citizen co-management laboratories.
Christian Alonso. Christian Alonso is director of the Centro de Arte la Panera and professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Lleida. He holds an International PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona. His research has focused on understanding how art can come to operate as a tool for constructing socio-biotechnical ecologies in a world conditioned by climate change, social inequalities, and violence based on sex, race and gender. He has worked on this theme as a curator, as director of applied artistic research projects, as author and editor of books and journals, and as coordinator of conferences, symposia, seminars and workshops on art and critical thinking.
Website: https://caosmosis.net/
Instagram: @caosmosis_net
Maria Sanchez is a veterinarian and writer. She works with native breeds in danger of extinction. She is the author of the books Cuaderno de Campo, by Tierra de mujeres, an intimate and familiar look at the rural world, with translations into French, German and English; and Almáciga, a seedbed of words from our rural environments that is continued in virtual format.
Website: https://maria-sanchez.es
Matías Rubio. Her fields of study have been law, community conflict transformation, group facilitation and non-formal education. For the last eight years she has been promoting and helping to coordinate associations and youth groups with social projects to improve the territories where she lives. She lives in a village in Cantabria from where she designs, implements and evaluates local, regional and European participation processes. A lover of good essays and philosophy books, he considers himself to be in continuous learning and eager to know what the next step will be.
At the same time, they will also form part of the jury on behalf of the organising body and as representatives of the funding bodies:
Fran Quiroga, coordinator of Concomitentes and mediator of Legado Cuidado.
Maral Kekejian, technical adviser to the Spanish EU Presidency Coordination Office
Pepa Octavio de Toledo. Responsible for the Citizen Art programme at the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.
The call, which will be launched on 1 July, will be open until 15 September at 23.59hrs.
For more information on how to apply, see here.
