Socially engaged art
29 January, 2026
Diversity as a future, a meeting on the culture of peace and coexistence
On 20 and 21 February, Diversity as the Future will be held, an event that will serve to dialogue and exchange reflections on widening the limits of cultural identity by appealing to its diverse nature.
The event aims to collectively reflect on the culture of peace and tolerance in the current Spanish context, understood as an ancestral heritage asset that urgently needs to be activated to protect and strengthen fair and supportive social ties.
Two days of dialogue and listening to widen the limits of the peninsular cultural identity, talking about silenced languages and voices; oppressed skins and bodies; bones and spectral memories that seek a place in the present.
We organized this event together with FelipaManuela and Infinito Delicias. The proposal is curated by the Office of Imaginary Archaeology, formed by Andrea Pacheco González and Asunción Molinos Gordo. With the advice of Rafael SM Paniagua and Aicha J. Trinidad Gououi as production assistant.
An invitation to think about diversity as the future and coexistence as an urgency of the present.
DAY 20/02/2026
WELCOME · 5 p.m.
- Institutional welcome – Lucía Casani (Carasso Foundation) and Javier Martín Jiménez (Infinito Delicias)
- Presentation of the meeting – Andrea Pacheco González and Asunción Molinos Gordo
LANGUAGES · 5.20 p.m. to 6.20 p.m.
- Casilda Rodrigáñez: «The popular origin of culture, a reflection on the Romance jarchas and the formation of Spanish»
- Gabriela Wiener: «Kiss with tongue: Sabotaging the Spanishness of Spanish. A few words about betraying the master by speaking the master’s language”
- Chaimaa Boukharsa: “National Identity, Coloniality and Islamophobia: A Critical Reading of the Construction of Spain”
OPEN CONVERSATION · 6:20 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.
PROJECT · 7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
- Antonio Collados and Rafael SM Paniagua: “See yourself in the works! Towards the Popular University of the Midday”
PERFORMANCE · 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
- Mikel Herrán: “Spain and Anti-Spain: A Tale of Two Oppressive Chimeras”
DAY 21/02/2026
WELCOME · 12 p.m. – Andrea Pacheco and Asunción Molinos Gordo
SKINS · 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m.
- Maggie Schmitt: “The Keys to the Garden”
- Sarah Carmona: “Image(R)genes against the grain”
- Basha Changue: “Race matters”
OPEN CONVERSATION · 1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
FOOD · 2 p.m. (a delicious chickpea and spinach stew will be offered)
BONES · 4 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
- Aicha J. Trinidad Gououi: «Watchtowers in no man’s land. The eyes of the houris”
- Andrea Pacheco González: “Talking architectures: walls that do not forget”
- Daniel Gil-Benumeya: “Madrid was born at Midday”
- Carolina Meloni: “And the ossuary they have with their stones / That spectral matter that inhabits us”
OPEN CONVERSATION and CLOSURE · 5:20 p.m. to 6 p.m.
MUSIC · 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Esteban Bove and The Gardener (Califato 3/4)
Image: Lady of Baza (Allegory of a Country), 2025. Linocut by the Estampa Popular del Guadarrama collective
