I hold a degree in Political Science from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, with studies at the universities of Cork and Granada. I have directed the artistic research projects Ruraldecolonizado, the Gabinete de Imaxinación Política, Fiestas Raras, the Programa de Estudos en Man Común (PEMAN) and the #salóndoMARCO. I currently serve as director of Concomitentes (New Patrons – Spain), a non-profit organisation where citizens commission works of art based on their own demands. A model that understands culture as a right and as a democratic practice, and that treats the artistic creation process as an act of collective negotiation between a community, a mediator and an artist. I am also a member of the Board of the Société Européenne des Nouveaux Commanditaires.
My research always departs from a specific territory in order to ask broader questions. Ruraldecolonizado interrogated how the city has subordinated rural ways of thinking and feeling. Fiestas Raras explored the festival as a space of political enunciation where the normative becomes negotiable. Montenoso —Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2014— built an epistemic community around the communally managed woodlands of Galicia: a legal figure that challenges the public-private divide and points towards other possible ways of inhabiting and managing the collective. At a European scale I have coordinated projects funded by the European Commission that test art as a concrete practice of socioecological repair.
I coordinated the report Cultura e Sustentabilidade for the Consello da Cultura Galega and the Manual de Políticas Públicas Locais for the Deputación da Coruña. I also worked for the USC as coordinator of the REVOLTA network of agroecology research groups (USC/UVigo), on Eo Alimenta —a participatory food project between Galicia and Asturias funded by the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso— and on the development of the Strategic Plan of the Centro de Investigación en Paisaxes Culturais Atlánticos.
I am co-author and co-editor of Agenciamientos ecológicos (Bartlebooth, 2024), Galiza e o decolonialismo (Fundación Luis Seoane, 2023), A través das marxes (Bartlebooth, 2018), Revoltando á terra (Bolanda, 2018) and La fiesta, lo raro y el espacio público (Bartlebooth, 2019) —a bibliography that, read as a whole, maps my interests: the commons, ruralities, agencing, subalternities and public space.
I have lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, the New European Bauhaus and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and I am a guest lecturer on the Master’s in Cultural Management at Universidad Carlos III and at the USC.
I also have alter egos, among them Transmaio, Divine Disguised Head or the Anthropocene´s Queen.