EL CONSULADO Joins the Decentralized Symposium “Redes as Resistance”
New York, NY — February 14, 2026 (via Zoom)
EL CONSULADO will participate in the Decentralized Symposium “Redes as Resistance”, a translocal space for exchange and connection framed by the pedagogical reflection proposed by LA ESCUELA___: Education as Resistance, currently presented in the Homeroom at MoMA PS1 (on view through February 23, 2026).
Developed in conversation with MoMA PS1 (New York), Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá), and La Nueva Fábrica (Guatemala City), “Redes as Resistance” will connect artists, researchers, curators, collective projects, and community-rooted initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean, including their global diasporas and Latinx communities in the United States and Canada, to exchange perspectives, challenges, and artistic approaches to urgent local realities.
Register to Attend
Attendance to the virtual sessions is free via online registration:
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EL CONSULADO Presentation
As part of the exchange group “Defensas de lo común (Defense of the Common)”, EL CONSULADO will present:
An Everywhere Kiosk: Art, Circulation, and Diasporic Networks
A 6:30–7:00 minute image-led presentation with live voiceover introducing KIOSKO—a modular, collaborative sculptural installation developed by EL CONSULADO as a diasporic cultural device: micro-vitrine, meeting point, and distributed platform for the circulation of small-format works by 47 Venezuelan artists living inside and outside Venezuela.
First presented at NADA Miami 2025 and later activated through a three-day pop-up and community program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) in New York, KIOSKO operates as a participatory, network-based project grounded in shared authorship, affordability, and collective cultural labor. Its dense display of small-format works, modest price points, and a Certificate of Participation intervene in extractive art-market logics and foreground circulation and encounter as core artistic practices.
Through KIOSKO, EL CONSULADO proposes art as a network of resistance: mobile, collective, and sustained through relationships, shared protocols, and informal systems of circulation rather than institutional frameworks.
Event Details
Decentralized Symposium: “Redes as Resistance”
Date: Saturday, February 14, 2026
Time: 12:00–4:00 PM (EST/COL/PER)
Format: Online via Zoom
Access: Free registration (link above)
The symposium will feature project and practice presentations gathered under multiple research axes proposed within the exhibition, and will be conducted in Spanish, English, and Portuguese—or mixed forms of these languages.
About “Education as Resistance” (MoMA PS1)
On view at MoMA PS1 Homeroom through February 23, 2026, LA ESCUELA___: Education as Resistance frames education as an ongoing practice of self-determination—challenging social injustices and colonial erasures while expanding collective narratives. The exhibition situates Latin American activisms and diasporic politics within sociocultural contexts at a continental scale.
Public Program
The Decentralized Symposium is open to the public and includes presentations by organizing institutions and participants from 20 countries across the continent and its diasporas, distributed in seven exchange groups.
Below are the announced exchange groups and participants.
Exchange Groups (Grupos de intercambio)
1) Creadores de escuelas (School Builders)
Experiences of sustained teaching labor that have formed generations of students—within formal institutions or independent learning projects—or that have founded key spaces and forms of thought for art and education.
Participants:
Nico Sosa (AR), Carolina Rosas Heimpel (MX), K. Ávalos - EducaMAC (CL), Rodrigo Barcos (AR), Adriana Raggi Lucio (MX), Natália Rezende Oliveira (BR), Nicolás Martínez (CO), Helio Rodrigues (BR), Delfina Esperanza de León (GT), Frederico Ravioli - Arco Escola-Cooperativa (BR), Erika Martin Arroyo (CR), Alexis Antonio Villanueva Niebles (CO), Jacaranda Ayala Pineda - Colectivo Hooogar (MX), Daniela H. Labra (CL/BR), Mariana García Ortiz y Pablo Retana - Sona Encendida (GT), Martín Estol (AR).
Moderator:
LA ESCUELA___ (Manuel Vásquez Ortega)
2) Pedagogía como centro (Pedagogy at the Center)
Experiences focused on work and reflection around education as a space for research and creation, developing methods and strategies that question traditional educational systems.
Participants:
Amanda Ruiz Méndez (MX), Temblores Publicaciones (MX), Fabricio Caiazza (AR), Paula Mascías (AR), Emilia Demichelis (AR), Diego Alatorre Guzmán (MX), Gabrielle Branche (TT/CA), Jerónimo Sainz de Agüero (MX), RESET (AR), taller Creando Sin Encargos (PR), Bel Falleiros y Renata Cruz (BR/US), José R. Menéndez - Gráfica Latina (PR), Beto Pérez (MX), Estefanía Vallejo Santiago (PR/US), Diego Agurto Beroiza (CL/UK), Natalia Alarcón Pino - kikuyo editorial (CL/EC).
Moderator:
LA ESCUELA___ (Miguel Braceli)
3) Aprendizajes colectivos (Collective Learnings)
Expanded artistic practices that move beyond individual authorship to learn alongside others, building meaningful communities through participation and collaboration.
Participants:
Julio César Palacio (VE/ES), Coletivo Ateliê Vivo (BR), María Patricia Tinajero (EC/US), Constanza Ruibal - Colectivo Territorio Colaborativo (AR), Ana Reyes-Cid (RD), Grupo Finca (David Chico, Cristina López, Gabriel Alba) (CU), Tatiana Rosa (BR), Daniela Castelblanco y Felipe Sierra (CO/FR), Carina Mercado (AR), Clara Sampaio Cunha (BR/PT), Proyector - Tania Tovar Torres (MX), João Paulo Andrade (BR), Mark Araujo (EC/US), Patricia Encarnación (RD/US), Alessio Mazzaro (IT/MX), James Hankins (US/GT).
Moderator:
Espacio Odeón (Tatiana Rais)
4) Defensas de lo común (Defense of the Common)
Activist experiences and practices that fight for human rights, the rights of nature, and social justice—emphasizing art as a route for political action in defense of life in community.
Participants:
Carla Lombardo y Ж (AR/BR), Arquitectura Expandida (CO), Elilson Gomes do Nascimento (BR), Eduardo Cruces (CL/TR), Jerónimo Reyes-Retana (MX/US), Alma Camelia Estefes (MX), Carlos Colín (MX/CA), La Comuna (MX), EL CONSULADO NYC (VE/US), Claudia Estefany Matute Barahona (HN), re/presentare (MX), Estado Fósil (Anamaría Garzón Mantilla, Sofía Acosta, Francisco Hurtado) (EC/MX/US), Camila Galaz (AU/CL/US), Costurero de Suba (Gracia Marina Salazar y Angie Daniela Muñoz) (CO), Carol Montealere (CO/US), Gabriel Sosa (CU/US).
Moderator:
MoMA PS1 (Elena Ketelsen)
5) Contra las hegemonías del cuerpo (Against the Hegemonies of the Body)
Practices addressing gender struggles and dissidence, expanding art’s expressive possibilities as a space for liberation and affirmation centered on the body and its political/social implications.
Participants:
Natalia Espinel (CO/US), Debora Faccion Grodzki (BR/US), Gaby Híjar (MX), La Lola Rizo y Marga Sequeira (NI/CR), Rosa Amelia Poveda Núñez (EC), Carolina Pinzón Rivera - colectivo Dai werakaura (CO), Iliana Olalde Cázares (MX), David Hernan Landriel Oviedo (AR), Vick Quezada (US), Emperatriz Plácido San Martín (PE/BE), Kai Trotz-Motayne (US/CA/GY), Gal Martins (BR), Sandra Vivas (VE/DM), Artefacto (GT), Aline (Daka) da Rosa Deorristt (BR), Zacarías González (CU/US).
Moderator:
Museo Universitario del Chopo (Miguel A. López)
6) Ecologías del aprendizaje (Ecologies of Learning)
Artistic-pedagogical practices cultivating respectful ways of cohabiting territories and the environment.
Participants:
Sigrid Castañeda Galeano (CO), Pablo Martínez-Zárate (MX), Abril Hernández (Enero y Abril*) (MX), Sebastian Wiedemann (CO), Ender Rodríguez (VE), Santiago Roose (PE), Yunuen Díaz (MX), Clara Esperanza Best Núñez (PE), Denise Espírito Santo (BR), Gaby Deisolbi (MX/ES), Agustine Zegers (CL/US), Alejandra Salamanca (CO), Jens Benöhr (CL), Ignacio Javier Szmulewicz Ramírez (CL/US), Paulina Sierra (MX), Carla Rangel García (MX/US).
Moderator:
LA ESCUELA___ (Marianela Díaz Cardozo)
7) Saberes ancestrales y originarios (Ancestral and Indigenous Knowledges)
Practices that recover and revalue knowledges made invisible by colonization, honoring continuity, memory, and resistance.
Participants:
Zahara Gómez Lucini (MX), Georgina Santos (MX), Viridiana Ponce González (MX), Valeria Leiva (GT/NL), Javi Fuentes Bernal (CO), Elina Rodríguez (AR), Larissa Macêdo (BR), Octavio Aguilar Gutiérrez (MX), Lesly García Soto (MX/DE), Diego León (US), Akemi Higa Flores y Kevin Malca Vargas (PE/US), María Catalina Jorquera Badilla (CL), Michael Lees - WAA: Waitukubuli Artist Association (DM), Amara Abdal Figueroa (KW/PR), Xan DI Alexandria de Oliveira Moura (BR), Antonio Serna (US).
Moderator:
La Nueva Fábrica (Ilaria Conti)
About LA ESCUELA___
Founded and developed jointly by artist and educator Miguel Braceli and the international foundation Siemens Stiftung, LA ESCUELA___ has fostered open learning spaces across Latin America and the Caribbean while mapping and activating the legacy of artist-led schools and collective pedagogical models since 2022. As an expanding platform, it continues to grow by weaving an international network of knowledge exchange rooted in shared interests in collective learning experiences. Its expansion into the United States advances its purpose of connecting artists, researchers, educators, communities, and institutions at a continental scale.
About EL CONSULADO
EL CONSULADO is a New York–based Venezuelan artist-run collective formed in response to the collapse of Venezuela’s cultural institutions and the absence of platforms for artistic visibility across the diaspora. The collective builds alternative infrastructures for circulation and dialogue among Venezuelan artists, foregrounding collaboration and shared authorship through projects including KIOSKO—advancing art as a collective practice of presence, exchange, and resistance.
Founding members: Alejandra Mandelblum, Helwing Villamizar, Mariantonia Blanco, Luke Grande.
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