About the part that art plays in a globalising society

Framer Framed

Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba

Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba (b. 1988) works at the intersection of art and anticapitalist entrepreneurship, framing his practice as a poetic redirection of resources away from capitalist accumulation and toward collective, baroque economies of the commons. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad. He participates in collectivities such as Biquini Wax EPS, the Lil Solidarity Bank for Artists, Tropical Tap Water and the Center for Studies for Urgent Issues. R

uvalcaba is a Rijksakademie alumni (2020–2022) and was part of the Pressing Matter artist in residency (2022-2023). Recently, he organised a Summer Course on Conceptual Mesoamerican Art at Campeche galery in Mexico City with artist Sofía Odeth and writer Gustavo A. Cruz Serna. He is currently is working with the Nchivi Ñuu Savi Collective and Yucu Saa Community Museum (Oaxaca, Mx) on an ethical protocol for repatriation of ancestral human remains and facilitating a museography design for the Aak Community Museum (Campeche, Mx).

Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba is also a member of Visionary Archeology Workshop, a liminal methodology that, at the intersection of speculative fiction and militant research, proposes to reconstruct what capitalism has attempted to erase through the political use of imagination.


Exhibitions


Project: Do It Together - DIT

DIT is a kitchen / a tent / a learning playground / a workshop...................

Agenda


Symposium: Shapeshifters

Day-long symposium addressing the ethical and cultural implications of collections built through colonial looting and exploitation
Rematriation Rehearsals: On a Mesoamerican Skull Displayed in Leiden
A conversation on 3D printing in the context of stolen or looted artefacts from indigenous communities
Symposium: (un)Common Grounds - Reflecting on documenta fifteen
A two-day hybrid symposium co-organised by Framer Framed, Akademie van Kunsten & Van Abbemuseum
Workshop: Wayang Kardus - Struggle and Solidarity with Taring Padi
A two-day workshop by Taring Padi with food, conversations, jamming sessions and the production of cardboard puppets