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Rachel Lopez

1 May 2023 – 31 January 2024

Raquel López Fernández has a degree in nursing (Uniovi) and a PhD in Art History (UCM). She completed her doctoral thesis linked to the CSIC. She has combined her work as a nurse with her professional development in the field of Humanities. She has collaborated as a teacher at the UCM and UNED. She has participated in national and international conferences, but has also co-organized and co-directed scientific events in institutions such as the Student Residence or the Picasso Museum in Malaga. She is interested in the transfer of knowledge and has been a scientific guide at exhibitions or collaborated in outreach and education activities linked to museums, research, educational or youth centers. She has published in different academic media and is co-editor of some publications published by the CDAEM, Ediciones Mahali or Sans Soleil Editorial. She has specialized in the study of dance and plastic arts, but her lines of research cover the relationships between art, science, politics and spirituality in the artistic culture of the 20th century, which she approaches with approaches linked to cultural studies or ecofeminism. She has carried out research stays in international institutions such as the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris) or the Università di Bologna. She combines scientific research with artistic research.

Project in residence

Hortiocus

Hortiocus is a research, creation and interdisciplinary intermediation project that revolves around the garden. It is created with the purpose of linking art, science and society from an educational and playful approach. These agricultural spaces are understood here as places of artistic creation, generation and regeneration of knowledge and practices in a communitarian way. Among the objectives of the project is to take advantage of resources and particularities of Asturian agriculture to activate other forms of symbolic and economic capital. Etymologically, it is born from the grafting of the Latin nominative ofjuego/iocus in the root of huerto/hortus. The inclusion of play implies learning based on experience and the exchange of senses, also in the roles of agricultural technology.

Hortiocus seeks the conciliation and transfer of different epistemes, but also between human and non-human ways of being and being human. To this end, different actions are proposed, such as the use of technological devices for recording and measuring the bioelectrical activity of plants that can also be used for musical listening/synthesizing.


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