semillero del chthuluceno 

with Helen Torres

This workshop is an exercise to examine inherited terms and to work on the generation of new concepts that can disrupt capitalist, colonialist, and catastrophist discourses that shape the imaginary of the Anthropocene. Which words do you want to correct? Which words do you want to (re-)signify? Which words do you want to reclaim?  Which ones are missing? I will present the preliminary phase of the Semillero del Chthuluceno project, an illustrated glossary grounded in conversations with resident artists at La Escocesa, and we will create new entries for this “dictionary” of a timespace that was, still is, and might yet be.

bio

Helen(a) Torres is a sociologist, translator, and educator. Her work focuses on the intersections between language, the arts, and politics from feminist and anticolonial perspectives. She facilitates speculative fabulation workshops and seminars centered on the work of Donna Haraway, whose major works she has translated, and around whose proposals she develops artistic and research projects. She teaches critical thinking, queer theory, and feminist theories. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Barcelona, working on a dissertation about bioart, and is translating When Species Meet by Donna Haraway.

This event is part of the research project “Semillero para el Chthuluceno” by Helen Torres, supported by one of the Becas de investigación artística Barcelona CREA - La Escocesa 2025.

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