Self-Assembly: Regina de Miguel: Life in Conamara

Renewing its collaboration with La Capella's Concèntric program, einaidea organises an intensive workshop with Regina de Miguel on the afternoons of 16, 17, and 18 June.

“Stemming from a diversity of research projects and experiences around geotrauma and resource extraction, we will turn our gazes toward the speculative borders of extractivism beyond Earth, linking the enduring violence of colonial legacies with techno-capitalist aspirations in outer space. Among these, Jupiter's moon, known as "Europa"—where the presence of carbon dioxide, likely originating from a subterranean ocean, has recently been confirmed—has become an object of scientific curiosity and corporate desire, a «soft and tender» border imagined as uninhabited and ready for extraction. Thus, we will debate and work around the new ethical debates that arise from these technological regimes; around the critical cartographies of the present, which reveal how economic abstraction and data control sculpt our bodies, territories, and futures” (Regina de Miguel).

Through research processes that result in film, video art, and hybrid knowledge production projects, Regina de Miguel's interdisciplinary practice addresses the supposed objectivity of scientific devices of representation, as well as the relationships between violence and extractivism on bodies and territories. Her work establishes complex networks of connections through a methodical approach, drawing on philosophy of science, ecofeminism, and speculative fiction to give rise to theoretical, existential, and poetic shifts, where fragility operates as a form of resistance.

This activity is part of Self-Assembly, a series of workshops organized by einaidea around the poetics of the collective, the codes of auto-organization and the cosmopolitics of materials in post-digital culture.

Free activity with prior registration. To participate, please send a short motivation note to einaidea@eina.cat by 11 June.