Open call for 2025 edition

Under the title La digestión de la tierra: repertorios de abono y escombro, the 2025 edition of Materia Abierta is curated by artist Naomi Rincón-Gallardo and will take place in Mexico City from July 28 to August 23. Over the course of a month, a group of participants will work with Cristina Rivera Garza, Daniela Rea, Gran Pie Podrido, Mapa Teatro, María Galindo (with Mujeres Creando), Poposteando Ando and The Sensing Salon (Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva).

The call will be open until April 20, 2025, at 11:59pm (CDT).

Materia Abierta is a space for mobilizing critical thinking and political will through principles of collectivity. Based in Mexico City, the program aims to generate contexts for learning through the exchange of knowledge as an opportunity for sociopolitical organization. To foster action-based learning, its activities are conceived as rehearsals that seek to rethink pedagogies as shared responsibilities not separate from desire, affection, and the everyday nature of care. It is an effort to sow critical intimacy and metabolize complicity within groups.

This year the program will explore the subsoil as a metabolism that processes toxicity and regenerates life. The subsoil will guide us in identifying underground and clandestine networks and in recognizing simultaneous materialities and temporalities beneath our feet, where the decomposed and discarded are transformed into fertilizer for the future.

In this hazardous moment, it is imperative to affirm our desires, cultivate our connections, and focus on what happens at the margins. What if we experimented with abandoning human individuality by digging into a subterranean place of recombinations and porous entanglements with animals, plants, and minerals? Beneath our feet, immeasurable material worlds sustain us. This is an invitation to rehearse repertoires to cohabit this wounded earth, to loosen your senses and recognize and rehabilitate ongoing and scattered expressions of dissent.

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