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This Saturday we present for the first time “Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On forbidden mother tongues”, and I cannot be happier!

Published by @printroom_rtm , this book is a very intimate glimpse into years of personal research about language, mother tongues and anticolonial transmission practices through different generations and geographies. “Mbuchi: Turtle Words” explores the human as a turtle, the turtle as a human and the environment that intertwines Binnizá cosmologies with poetry, dreams, lullabies, migration policies, food, children books, family wounds, language resistance and its modes of becoming in an epistolary narrative.

The book presents the text in-itself as a curatorial realm, by collaborating with Valentina Jager @vjgrrr -who joins with translation as an artistic practice- and Alan Sierra @alansierra , whose illustrations are a lyrical interpretation of the reading. It is designed by Dongyoung Lee @dongyoungleee and printed by PrintRoom team.

I feel enormous gratitude to Valentina and Alan for their generous presence, I cannot feel but honored to share the space of language and friendship with them. And I’m deeply thankful with Karin for the complicity, conversations and the gezelligness of a Room full of prints and books.

Saturday 6 April
PrintRoom, Rotterdam
3 pm
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📷 by @printroom_rtm taken in Rotterdam, Netherlands by @evaposas

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3 years ago

Applications to our upcoming MA 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 are open until April 1!

Led by curator and writer Eva Posas, 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 is a two-year temporary MA offered by If I Can’t Dance in collaboration with the Sandberg Instituut. The programme intersects Eva's research ‘Phantom Languages’ within the context of Nations Without State with the work done by If I Can’t Dance over the past 20 years in the field of performance and performativity.⁠
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The programme aims to explore the rich and interdisciplinary field of performance not as an outcome but as a research methodology. The entry point to this field is the phantoms that live in and outside us, bringing forth experiences of repression and erasure, either on an individual or collective level. Embodying the interplay between body and environment, these phantoms function like scores; they create a threshold, a lifeline between the verbal and the nonverbal, the material and the immaterial.

The MA aims to equip participants with tools to engage with the unseen, unacknowledged, and erased, yet still here, addressing the impalpable and yet present set of actions and knowledge inscribed within bodies, their genealogies, behaviours and relations.⁠ In doing so, they will be supported by an outstanding group of artists, thinkers, and practitioners, working at the undisciplined, de-genred intersections of performance studies, heart epistemologies, anti-colonial, and anti-racist thinking, lived experience, situated knowledge, critical theories, and DIY technologies.

Next to Eva Posas and If I Can’t Dance curators Anik Fournier & Sara Giannini, we are thrilled to announce that Noor Abed, Lynnée Denise, Venuri Perera, Yin Yin Wong, and Amy Suo Wu have joined the programme.
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➝Visit the programme page via the link in bio.
➝Online info sessions with Eva Posas on Monday 23 March 8PM and Wednesday 25 March 11 AM (links in bio).

📷 #1 Yin Yin Wong, ‘Psalm for a Hungry Ghost’, ph. Bart Treuren, 2025, #2 Portrait Noor Abed, ph. Miquel Munoz, #3 Portrait Lynée Denise, #4 Portrait Venuri Perera, ph. Luka Alagiyawanna, #5 Portrait Amy Suo Wu, ph. Roel van Tour. by @evaposas

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7 months ago

Con mucha emoción les compartimos que Xigagueta @xigagueta_ , programa de arte y pensamiento desde el Istmo de Tehuantepec, tendrá su primer momento público este 25 y 26 de enero en la querida Galería Gubidxa🌞

Xigagueta es un programa híbrido experimental que acompaña procesos de reflexión, escritura y producción estética desde el territorio cognitivo Binnizá e Ikoots. Desde ahí hemos imaginado y trazado manifestaciones de sublevación cultural que alimenten el fuego de nuestras culturas. A lo largo de varios meses nos hemos reunido para pensar y discutir desde nuestros idiomas diidxazá y ombeayiüts. Con ese punto de partida, queremos compartir una suerte de exhibición y programa público; una celebración del hacer y crear primordialmente desde nuestras lenguas maternas.

Ana Palacios @ana.ikoots , Dell Alvarado @dell.yaga , Diego Matus @portalvegetal , Fernando Magariño @_magarinho y Paulina Amador @paulina.amador_ han trabajado en ensayos, escritos y obras visuales sobre la construcción de la identidad, el territorio, la migración, la romantización de los pueblos originarios, la violencia, extractivismo, la justicia textil; las enfermedades, los colores, la traducción como transgresión y forma de sublevación. Son personas creadoras llenas de fuego, con reflexiones poderosísimas y prácticas sumamente sensibles, agudas; desde las entrañas, la lengua y el corazón.

Nos vemos el sábado 25 y domingo 26 de enero de 2025 en Galería Gubidxa, espacio del querido Víctor Fuentes y quien también nos ha acompañado muy cerquita 🫶.

Diidxa’ rului’ neza,
La palabra nos guía.
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Xigagueta es realizada con el apoyo de Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo @museojumex y previamente ha contado con el apoyo del @nieuweinstituut para su desarrollo 💌 taken in Istmo de Tehuantepec by @evaposas

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2 years ago

Mbuchi también tiene una casa en el aire a través de las ondas radiofónicas! (English below) Cada viernes presentaremos Roaring Winds Radio, un espacio con grabaciones de campo, conversaciones, performances y música que trazan el mapa de nuestra familia y amistades transatlánticas a través del océano.

Para nuestra primera emisión este viernes 16 de octubre,tenemos el honor de contar con Rosa Contreras (aka DJ Invitada Especial) desde Ciudad Neza. Rosa es selectora, coleccionista de discos y exploradora musical de Nezahualcóyotl, Estado de México. Su selección recorre ritmos latinos, sonidos globales y música bailable, inspirada en la experiencia surrealista de vivir en México, incluyendo la mierda y la fortuna de lo que eso significa.

Pueden escucharnos a las 5:00 p. m. (hora de Europa) / 9:00 a. m. (hora de México) en AM cerca de la @crespofoundation o en línea a través de mbuchi.com.

¡Emoción enorme de celebrar, escuchar y compartir juntxs! 📻🎙️🐚🐢

Atte
Bigu, David y Eva

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Mbuchi also has a house in the air through the radio waves! Every Friday we will present Roaring Winds Radio, a space with field recordings, conversations, performances and music that trace the map of our family and transatlantic friendships across the ocean.

For our first broadcast, we have the honor of having Rosa Contreras (aka Special Guest DJ) from Ciudad Neza. Rosa is a collector, record collector and musical explorer from Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico. His selection goes through Latin rhythms, global sounds and danceable music, inspired by the surreal experience of living in Mexico, including the shit and the fortune of what that means.

You can listen to us at 5:00 p.m. (European time) / 9:00 a.m. (Mexico time) on AM near the @crespofoundation or online through mbuchi.com.

Huge excitement to celebrate, listen and share together! 📻🎙️🐚🐢

Atte

Bigu, David and Eva by @evaposas

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2 days ago

Mbuchi nennen David Habets und Eva Posas ihr Familienkollektiv, gemeinsam mit Bigu, ihrem Kind. In Mexiko und den Niederlanden verwurzelt, ist ihre Praxis von einer transkontinentalen Drift geprägt. In Irland war der Wind ein beständiger Begleiter. Ihre Arbeit „Roaring Winds“ entfaltet sich in zwei Strängen: einem Radiosender, über Land und Meer getragen, und einer fotografischen Installation.

„The Glenkeen Variations: Aftergrowth“ zeigt Arbeiten von 20 Künstler:innen der Glenkeen Garden Residencies 2024 und 2025.

Eröffnung
Do, 15.10.26, 19 Uhr

Crespo Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1–3
Frankfurt

Eintritt frei

Foto: Jason Lee

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Mbuchi is what David Habets and Eva Posas call their family collective, together with Bigu, their child. Rooted in Mexico and the Netherlands, their practice is marked by a transcontinental drift. In Ireland the wind was a constant presence. Their work ‘Roaring Winds’ unfolds along two strands: a radio station carried across land and sea and a photographic installation.

‘The Glenkeen Variations: Aftergrowth’ presents works by 20 artists from the Glenkeen Garden Residencies 2024 and 2025.

Exhibition opening
Thu, 15.10.26, 7 pm

Crespo Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1–3
Frankfurt

Free entry

Photo: Jason Lee

Sonya Schönberger arbeitet mit Installation, Video, Fotografie und Text und erkundet darin materielle wie immaterielle Archive, Erinnerungen und Biografien. Ihr Triptychon „Skull and Heart“ setzt ein Selbstporträt zwischen zwei Detailaufnahmen von Steinen, die in der Hand der Künstlerin ruhen.

„The Glenkeen Variations: Aftergrowth“ zeigt Arbeiten von 20 Künstler:innen der Glenkeen Garden Residencies 2024 und 2025.

Eröffnung
Do, 15.10.26, 19 Uhr

Crespo Open Space
Weißfrauenstraße 1–3
Frankfurt

Eintritt frei

Foto: Jason Lee

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Sonya Schönberger works with installation, video, photography and text, exploring material and immaterial archives, personal memories and biographical accounts. Her triptych ‘Skull and Heart’ places a self-portrait between two close-up photographs of stones, each resting in the artist’s hand.

‘The Glenkeen Variations: Aftergrowth’ presents works by 20 artists from the Glenkeen Garden Residencies 2024 a by @evaposas

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10 days ago

¿De dónde nace una obra que imagina otras formas de soñar, cuidar y resistir?

En este video, la curadora Eva Posas nos habla de Germino–Gemimos–Germinamos y nos invita a recorrer la exhibición para explorar las raíces de una propuesta que entrelaza la novela gráfica de ciencia ficción, el cosmosentir y las experiencias de las mujeres que inspiran el trabajo de Gabriela Novoa.

Un recorrido por memorias, imaginarios y formas de resistencia que encuentran en el tunal una energía vinculada con la capacidad de soñar.

📍 Sala Resquicio
🗓️ Miércoles a domingo | 11:00–18:00
🎟️ Entrada libre by @evaposas

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a month ago

For years, @alansierra and I have been sharing long conversations regarding lineage, upbringing, orphanage, life, death, and the languages in between: what we inherit, what we keep, and what we really treasure despite the circumstances. We had been reading together about motherhood long before I became a mother myself.

Now that Alan and I have been talking about his upcoming show at @peana_ , it is beautiful to see that we’ve traced an invisible line of thinking, reflecting on where we come from and what we want to do with that in our work. A moment we had to expand these dialogues to the space was with “The Great Clothesline,” for the exhibition “Society of Molecules” at the Aalborg Midwife Center from the University Hospital. From March until July 2026, visitors expecting a child could encounter a mural done with red dots spolvero technique, which was also the base for the Mexican muralist movement.

As with most of Alan’s drawings, in “The Great Clothesline,” we see images that could feel simple but symbolize complex feelings and ideas: birds that adopt orphan eggs, baby spiders that eat the mother, or the chain of labor of the lineage that allows us to be here. Some are part of an imagery that, in that vulnerable space of a hospital waiting room, doesn’t need to be clear. In the end, the hope was for it to be a wordless companion, sharing in silence within an inner dialogue with those in the space.

This project was a collaboration with the amazing people of @lim_collective , @ariel_feminisms , and the Aalborg Midwife Center. My gratitude to @ninawoehlk , @ajonssonstudio , Lene, the midwives, and all the viking ghosts that were around.🕸️

Pictures by Simon Bendix Borregaard. taken in Aalborg, Denmark by @evaposas

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At the end of May, we opened the newest edition of Resquicio at @casadellago.unam in Mexico City, featuring artist @gabrielanovoa_ .

Her work addresses the violence and subjugation experienced by feminized bodies, alongside the political and historical oppression in her native El Salvador. Through desire, visionary fiction, poetry, and botany her work emerges as a strategy for intergenerational growth and healing. In “Germino – Gemimos – Germinamos”, Gabriela invokes the tunal. For the Nahua peoples of Central America and México, the tunal symbolizes the vital energy that grants us the capacity to dream, traveling through the night to create deep connections between us all as we sleep.

Through embroidery and painting, Gabriela explores how the tunal resonates among plants and beans species, which gently oxygenate and repair both the earth and our dreams. Grateful with Gaby for sharing this visual and sensual landscape, an exhibition that shares the gentle power of land and women.

There is still time to visit the exhibition at Casa del Lago! Resquicio is possible thanks to the bestest team: @cinthya_gl , @yheypy , @beruz , Geo, @pilar.gardun.o , Andrés, Ejival, Alex, Robert, Irving, Tamara, Lucía Pi, Alejandra, and of course, Gabriela. 🌺🌱🐚

Documentation pictures by Menly González (1-3) and @rizomatica (4-10) taken in Casa del Lago UNAM by @evaposas

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2 months ago

“Ru kuux Toj” is the work by artist @manuelchavajay for the open air exhibition “Haunted by Waters”, organized by @into_nature_drenthe in the North of the Netherlands.

In the area of the “onlanden” roughly translated as the “non-lands”, twelve artists approached these swamps -now a natural reserve- through reciprocity. When Manuel visited the area for the first time and heared about the land claim to the sea, as well as all the tense history of people on the now dutch areas with floodwaters; he decided to give back to the land, to do an offering for the water. “Ru kuux toj” is an offering based on his Mayan Tz’utujil rituals and knowledge.

These pictures are part of the intimate performance he did during the first days of the exhibition, an invitation to touch the soil with the feet, to dance as a form to gratitude.

Photo documentation by @jedidjasmalbil

More pictures and info soon! for now, as a side note, I would like to point out my own tense relation with social media, the scroll, the algorithm and its implicit demand for immediacy. But i will try posting more and trust that we’re still humans beyond the algorithms.

With gratitude to @into_nature_drenthe , @debruijnhilde , Sanne, Nathalie, Ditmar, Marc, @tienke_zijlstra , Arjen, Wessel, Mathieu, Marinus, Jedidja, Jonathan, @davidhabets , Bigu and Manuel. 🍍🍌🍊💛 taken in Groningen, Netherlands by @evaposas

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En diversas cosmovisiones nahuas de Centroamérica, el tunal es una energía asociada a la capacidad de soñar. En Germino–Gemimos–Germinamos, Gabriela Novoa recupera esta idea para pensar los vínculos entre memoria, cuidado y resistencia.

Ven a recorrer la muestra. Encuéntrala en nuestra sala Resquicio de miércoles a domingo en un horario de 11:00 a 18:00. Entrada libre.

Curaduría por Eva Posas (MX). by @evaposas

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Curada por Eva Posas, Germino–Gemimos–Germinamos es una exposición que reúne obras de la artista salvadoreña Gabriela Novoa. Pinturas y bordados para explorar las resonancias del tunal entre plantas y especies endémicas de frijol.

Sala Resquicio. Miércoles a domingo de 11:00 a 18:00. Entrada libre. by @evaposas

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4 months ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us for “nesting” 🪺

“nesting” is a performative reading about the housing situation in the Netherlands, the nest-building practices of local birds, and the characters that inhabit the residual spaces of Fantascope discs, an early precursor to animation. 🦋

nesting was born from the collaboration and shared complicity between @evaposas, @davidhabets , and Bigu, as part of the second session of @mbuchi_house.🏡

Here are some images from the gathering and the animation made live on that occasion.

We felt deeply moved and held by MBUCHI House and by everyone who joined us while enjoying a delicious birria 😋 taken in The Hague, Netherlands by @evaposas

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