Andrea Ancira

Andrea Ancira is an editor, writer, curator and independent researcher. Her practice is situated at the crossroads of art, politics and experimentation as a site of imagination, (un)learning and affective research in dialogue with activist and socially embedded initiatives in which she takes part. Her research focuses on the role of experimentation, contamination and translation in shaping communal perspectives of life, memory and care. The perspective from which she explores these phenomena is based on theoretical frameworks such as Marxism, the history of contemporary culture and politics, feminism, anti-colonial studies, among others.

She has facilitated collective study platforms on Critical Theory and Marxism, Politics of the Archive, Sound Ethnographies and Practices of Commonality in museums, universities and independent art spaces such as UNAM, Museo Universitario del Chopo, SOMA, Villa Vassilieff, Beta-Local, Instituto 17, Estudios Críticos, Casco Art Institute, Aeromoto, Biquini Wax EPS and Cooperativa Cráter Invertido. In 2017 she co-created the feminist editorial platform tumbalacasa. Currently, she is candidate of the PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

She has also worked as a researcher at the National Council to Prevent Discrimination (CONAPRED) and the Mexican Ministry of Culture, at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) as curatorial assistant and as curatorial research fellow at Centro de la Imagen and Villa Vassilieff in Paris. In 2017, with the support of the Board of Contemporary Art (PAC), she took part in the Independent Curators International’s (ICI) Intensive Study Program in New Orleans. In 2018, she worked as Editorial Coordinator and Project Manager at Buró-Buró; she assisted in the coordination of the Intensive Curatorial Program (ICI) in Mexico City and participated in the School of Art Criticism at La Tallera/SAPS. From 2018 until 2021 she served as president of APA, a not-for-profit (and low profile) organization that runs programs to support the arts community in Mexico. In 2019 she took part of Materia Abierta and from 2019 until 2021, she worked at the General Directorate of Human Rights of the Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico.

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