DU-DA is a collective focused on mediation, research, and artistic production. All of our projects incorporate a relational aspect, initiate collective processes, and frequently align with sensibilities that also critique hegemonic power structures. We ask ourselves questions about our modes of cohabitation in order to imagine alternative potential present-futures.
We have several ongoing projects: Morir guay, a research about death and dying; Pan Duro, where cooking together is a party; Puaj!, an open laboratory of live cultures; La Segunda Duna, a caravan for stays in the forest; Hera, a circular learning program; Médiums, explorations about the invisible; Marti Culiz, the publisher of spontaneous editions and, last but not least, Puntería y Cariño.
We have received the support of the Nina Carasso Foundation for our research line Morir Guay with the project Collective Learning to Redesign Death, CREA 2023 grant for I eat the stars, BKFMACBA 2022 grant for El último aliento, Barcelona Producció 2021 grant for “Morir guay: Rituales de Transición“, the UNZIP grant in the Art and Education modality 2020 for “Mediums: a collective exploration of the invisible“, and the Escocesa 2020 research grant for “Morir Guay. Voces y relatos para no tener miedo“. We have also worked with cultural institutions such as the CCCB, La Casa Encendida, El Graner, Hangar, Centro LGTB, Can Felipa or the UPV / EHU University.
My theoretical and artistic practice resides at the crossroads of language and the body. I am intrigued by textuality in the sense that it can transform into alchemy – embodied poetics functioning as a tool to dismantle our ontological binary. I possess degrees in Art History and Audiovisual Communication, and I embarked on a doctorate in “Artistic Education and Visual Culture.” However, during the second year of composing my thesis, I encountered a crisis, prompting me to initiate writing fiction and poetry on a blog. In 2020, I published my first novel “Año del caballo” with ediciones en el mar.
I was a filmmaker and that’s it. Now I investigate the transit through the landscape: I make bread, I grow up and work on the connection of bread with culture, with territory and with memory. I look into the relationships between self-managed and institutionalized practices in the private and the public. From these practices arise texts that I publish in fanzines, digital or non-public contexts. Political projects of long trajectory arise, of pedagogical and resilient character, that coexist with the city of Barcelona, and images and films that are correspondence between me and the invisible that takes me.