Participants' CVs - Encounter on Radical Education

Contra Filé was formed in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2000 and has constituted itself as a group for art investigation and production, with members originating from different areas (architecture, geography, anthropology, and the visual arts). Starting from its daily life experience, attentive and implicated, it acts - conceiving art as a political act - towards the realization of public life.

H.I.J.O.S. was formed by the children of the disappeared in collective response to the processes of social normalization and the unhealthy tolerance towards military criminals going free. With the help and cooperation of social psychologists, radical pedagogues, and Mayan activists, their individual testimonies of painful loss have been transformed into collective struggle against impunity and the militarization of society. Their everyday practice of rebellion in Guatemala draws strongly on Mayan histories and their concepts of autonomy and self-organization of the communities.

La Lleca grew out of a set of critiques of the then-current social situation in Mexico (in 2003). The first was a critique of how social relations were being constructed post-NAFTA, that is, under a form of neoliberal capitalism, specifically the alienation and utilitarian relations which we saw growing up around money, individualism, competition. The second critique was directed at the political situation of Mexico City and the newfound role of the idea of "insecurity", which, as a discourse, manages to both conceal and erase its social and economic foundations.

The Pinky Show is an internet-based educational project based in the United States.
We focus on information and ideas that have been misrepresented, suppressed, ignored, or otherwise excluded from mainstream discussion. Pinky presents and analyzes the material in an informal, easy-to-understand way, with helpful illustrations that she draws herself.
The Pinky Show presents marginalized perspectives as a means of challenging individuals to consider realities that lie beyond their own lived experiences. Pinky is curious about a wide range of subjects - little-known historical facts, critical analyses and interpretations of cultural texts, social and political commentary, issues of morality and ethics, and basically anything that people may not know or spend much time thinking about.

Active in a variety of forms and situations since 2006, Radical Education is a collective sharing an interest in a number of fields using processes of co-research and popular education to organize series of inquiries and events within different context such as gallery spaces, social centers, sites of formal education and other public spaces.

Since 2000 Universidad Nómada is an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist and decolonial
laboratory for organizing, production and theoretical and intellectual transmission, and an agency for political post-national and post-European interventions of the new forces of global and transnational work that emerged after the cycle of struggles of the anti-historical movement, the recent restructuring processes of the capitalist world-economy carried out since the end of the 1970s and the explosion of new forms of subjectivity and social existence and constitution of new subjects productive in the current capitalist societies of today.

With drawings, texts and actions Zampa di Leone (an anonymous collective from Serbia) is working within the parameters of cultural activism in the Balkan region. Their first fanzine, In the Arse of the Balkans, parodies an entire movement of the Balkanization of art practices. Their experiment of aesthetic reformulation of the Balkans has created its anti-history of sorts.

Albert Heta is the co-founder of Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosova. Stacion Center for Contemporary Art is a structure of artists, architects, thinkers, critics and other cultural workers committed to reflecting on and responding to relevant challenges of the contemporary society with an active, critical and emancipatory approach.

Agon Hamza is a co-initiator of DKS (Department for Social Critique), a former activist/member of Vetëvendosje! movement and KAN (Kosovo Action Network). He publishes articles in daily newspapers/section of politics; he is an assistant editor of the Kritika dhe Shoqëria (Critique and Society) magazine published by DKS. He is also involved in a few projects with Stacion Center for Contemporary Art.

Hajrudin Hromadžić holds a PhD in Anthropology of Everyday Life and Media Studies and currently teaches at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and University of Rijeka. His academic interests lie in the fields of media and cultural studies, as well as in anthropology and sociology of everyday life. Dr. Hromadžić has recently published a book titled Consumerism: Need, Life Style, Ideology.

Gašper Kralj is a researcher, theoretician and an activist collaborating with a number of educational, art, and activist collectives and institutions in Slovenia and Latin America, where he currently researches Latin American cultural and political movements, from colonialism to the present. Recently he published a book Izginuli in vrnjen (Disappeared and Returned) by Založba /*cf.

Bojana Piškur is a curator in Moderna galerija, Ljubljana. Her main theme of research is experimental art contexts/concepts/forms/relations in connection to the wider social environment.

Helena Popović is Teaching Assistant at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department for Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, where she works on the thesis: Audience, Text and Context: Television Comedy and Social Critique.

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