Introducing oneself can sometimes be a strange act.
Like choosing the words that define part of the complexity of an organism.
Is defining a form of confinement?
Therein lies the paradox: language does not simply reflect reality—it liberates it.
It generates relationships, creates and destroys worlds.
This may be an academic space,
it holds the potential to become a fertile ground
Anyway,
It might make sense to start with something like...
I hold a PhD in Visual Arts, Education, and Cultural Policies. Currently coordinating the History and Theory of Art and Design courses at LCI Barcelona, I combine teaching with research and project mediation. My ongoing research explores focuses on transmedia arts and multi-literacies as critical educational tools, especially within the fields of
In this project, I aim to work collaboratively with photography students, teachers, and all those who feel drawn to join our entanglements to explore visual storytelling as a space for situated, transdisciplinary inquiry—where images become agents of thought, resistance, and transformation.
I am deeply drawn to the art of world-building—whether through conceptual landscapes, linguistic architectures, social ecosystems, ecological networks, intimate microcosms, expansive universes, or vibrant community worlds. Each of these worlds embodies its own logic, rhythm, and sense of wonder, inviting us to reflect on the ways we construct meaning, connection, and reality itself.
"Multispecies Cat’s Cradle" by Nasser Mufti is a digital print created in 2011 and presented in the exhibition Fadenspiele / String Figures: A Research Exhibition at the Tinguely Museum in Basel
I wanted to begin by sharing an image that gives rise to a quote.
The connection isn’t mine—I borrow it as a way of generating knowledge.
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what worlds make worlds, what worlds make stories” . Donna J. Haraway”⁴
I delight in fabulating, in imagining, in losing myself within stories and images—that is why Haraway’s thought feels like a luminous thread to me. I hold a fervent belief that thought is matter, and that everything vibrates, everything is alive .
A project, an experience, a research endeavor, a life—each can be explored through thought-images that articulate their multiple openings, their becoming, and even their impossibility of closure. Haraway (2019) reflects on this semiotic and imaginative play through [with] string figures. The author refers to string figures as SF; an acronym for string figures in English, but also alludes to science fiction, speculative feminism, science fantasy, speculative fabulation, and science fact. String figures, or the game of cat’s cradle, are considered one of humanity’s oldest ludic-narrative practices. Since the 1880s, this practice has sparked great interest among certain circles of anthropological studies. Gryski (1987) asserts that evidence of this practice has been collected among Indigenous peoples around the globe. String figures, once thought to have a proven, concrete origin, seem to have emerged simultaneously as a pastime and as a device for transmitting tradition and culture in many societies. As Noble (1979) states, in oral-tradition societies, storytellers—through their thread-illustrated tales—conveyed knowledge related to gods, spirits, people, places, as well as the strength and wisdom of animals and nature in general. For Haraway (2019):
Playing string figures is about giving and receiving patterns; dropping threads, failing, and sometimes finding something that works, something consequential and perhaps even beautiful, something that wasn’t there before. It’s about transmitting connections that matter, about telling stories of hands over hands, fingers over two, anchor points over anchor points, about crafting conditions for finite flourishing on Earth (p. 32)
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