Paula Serafini
@paulaserafini.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries | Organiser | Curator | Art, Culture, Political Ecology, Social Justice.
💫 New publication! Drafts in Action: Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention.
My chapter "Collective Performance and the Cuerpo-territorio" reflects on the possibilities and limitations of expanded uses of cuerpo-territorio as a framework of political analysis. #performance #artactivism
Anna Kipke (Hg.), Iryna Kovalenko (Hg.), Laura Rogalski (Hg.), Simon Teune (Hg.), Mimmi Woisnitza (Hg.): Drafts in Action. Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
How do practices of artistic intervention engage with conceptual frameworks, in particular when it comes to location, institutional context, as well as human and non-human relations? What are the hist...
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July 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
💫 New publication! Drafts in Action: Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention.
My chapter "Collective Performance and the Cuerpo-territorio" reflects on the possibilities and limitations of expanded uses of cuerpo-territorio as a framework of political analysis. #performance #artactivism
🦋 just out! ‘Aesthetic and affective practices in Latin American feminist movements: transnational perspectives from the intersection of art, activism and research’ 🦋
With Konstantina Bousmpoura for ‘Utopias of Sustainability–The Sustainability of Utopias.’ series.morlacchilibri.com/index.php/mo...
With Konstantina Bousmpoura for ‘Utopias of Sustainability–The Sustainability of Utopias.’ series.morlacchilibri.com/index.php/mo...
Utopias of Sustainability – The Sustainability of Utopias: A Multimodal Intervention
| Morlacchi Editore
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July 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🦋 just out! ‘Aesthetic and affective practices in Latin American feminist movements: transnational perspectives from the intersection of art, activism and research’ 🦋
With Konstantina Bousmpoura for ‘Utopias of Sustainability–The Sustainability of Utopias.’ series.morlacchilibri.com/index.php/mo...
With Konstantina Bousmpoura for ‘Utopias of Sustainability–The Sustainability of Utopias.’ series.morlacchilibri.com/index.php/mo...
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27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
July 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Happy to see the launch of this new podcast emerging from the Art Rights Truth project @york.ac.uk I took part in the first episode, where we discussed #artactivism in #humanrights work, including cases from #Argentina #Palestine and beyond open.spotify.com/show/0OfNjWo...
Rights in Dialogue: Voices in Art and Activism
Podcast · Art Rights Truth · Rights in Dialogue puts human rights practitioners and artists in conversation to discuss the most urgent possibilities and challenges for artistic intervention in human r...
open.spotify.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happy to see the launch of this new podcast emerging from the Art Rights Truth project @york.ac.uk I took part in the first episode, where we discussed #artactivism in #humanrights work, including cases from #Argentina #Palestine and beyond open.spotify.com/show/0OfNjWo...
Last month we were in Malargüe, Mendoza with colleagues from UNTREF & Nómadas for a project involving a film festival and rural communities promoting the practice of transhumance. Transhumance has great cultural & ecological value, but is under threat of disappearing www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
Supporting sustainability in film: Queen Mary academic leads cultural-environmental impact in Argentina
www.qmul.ac.uk
June 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Last month we were in Malargüe, Mendoza with colleagues from UNTREF & Nómadas for a project involving a film festival and rural communities promoting the practice of transhumance. Transhumance has great cultural & ecological value, but is under threat of disappearing www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
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Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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May 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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Fresh out of the oven! My latest on cultural extractivism and the possibilities for socioecologial transformation in and through culture doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... part of a special issue of Geoforum edited by @gselgas.bsky.social and Henrik Ernstson
May 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Fresh out of the oven! My latest on cultural extractivism and the possibilities for socioecologial transformation in and through culture doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... part of a special issue of Geoforum edited by @gselgas.bsky.social and Henrik Ernstson
MUTUA is a collaboration between QMUL (UK) and UNTREF (Argentina) that engages in interdisciplinary research and action on culture and the environment. This short film gathers testimonies from the 2024 MUTUA Lab, which resulted in 3 commissioned projects youtu.be/0NAesOPTiEg?...
LABORATORIO MUTUA 2024
YouTube video by Programa Cultura y Ambiente
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April 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
MUTUA is a collaboration between QMUL (UK) and UNTREF (Argentina) that engages in interdisciplinary research and action on culture and the environment. This short film gathers testimonies from the 2024 MUTUA Lab, which resulted in 3 commissioned projects youtu.be/0NAesOPTiEg?...
Happy to be part of this imaginative project in dark times. Loads of stimulating projects and writing!
We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...
April 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy to be part of this imaginative project in dark times. Loads of stimulating projects and writing!
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On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇
March 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇
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If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it)
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you're being approached by SOAS to do marking, be aware that the SOAS tutors are on a marking boycott & you're being asked to scab mark (managers don't feel they should be transparent about it)
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
hardship fund: gofund.me/71598ef7&sa=...
template motion: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My latest article (in Spanish) with Gabriela Merlinsky for Crisol. A short piece titled "Arte, ecología política y conflictividad ambiental en América Latina." Free to download here: crisol.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/cr...
Arte, ecología política y conflictividad ambiental en América Latina
| Crisol
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March 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My latest article (in Spanish) with Gabriela Merlinsky for Crisol. A short piece titled "Arte, ecología política y conflictividad ambiental en América Latina." Free to download here: crisol.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/cr...
‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear
Wildfires are devastating Patagonia. In response, Argentinian authorities are removing environmental protections and raiding Indigenous communities
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
‘The forests are going up in flames – so is the rule of law’: Argentina’s climate of fear www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical & sustainability transformations with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh — CLaSP Blog
Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical and sustainability transformations The event brings together two leading scholars – Adam Hanieh and Alice Mah – whose shared focus on...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
www.claspblog.org/events/petro...
My review of Joan Martínez-Alier’s latest book for @clasp-qmul.bsky.social
Book Review: The book 'Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice' follows over 500 environmental justice movements evidencing why 'environmentalism of the poor' is key to socioecological transformation.
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
My review of Joan Martínez-Alier’s latest book for @clasp-qmul.bsky.social
Patagonia is burning. What did the libertarian government do? Cut funds for firefighters. Who is being blamed? Indigenous land defenders. Who will likely benefit from this? Local and foreign real estate magnates. www.gofundme.com/f/internatio...
Donate to International Solidarity Fund for Argentina Fires, organized by Territorio de Ideas
[Español abajo] International solidarity fund for Argentina fire… Territorio de Ideas needs your support for International Solidarity Fund for Argentina Fires
www.gofundme.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Patagonia is burning. What did the libertarian government do? Cut funds for firefighters. Who is being blamed? Indigenous land defenders. Who will likely benefit from this? Local and foreign real estate magnates. www.gofundme.com/f/internatio...
A short piece on the latest in the resistance to Milei’s programme in Argentina
Argentina’s first antifascist, antiracist Pride march gathered a multitude against the president’s far-right programme. Might this be a turning point in Argentina’s opposition to the far-right?
🖊️ @paulaserafini.bsky.social for LAB
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🖊️ @paulaserafini.bsky.social for LAB
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A turning-point in the resistance to Milei? | Latin America Bureau
The march on 1 February was a diverse mobilization that cut across class divides and brought together all those affected by Milei’s policies. Javier
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February 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A short piece on the latest in the resistance to Milei’s programme in Argentina
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📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...
Book round-up: Latest works by CLaSP members — CLaSP Blog
A compilation of recent books by CLaSP members “just in time” for teaching. This is the first of many posts highlighting the extremely rich work of CLaSP members. The recent books listed below cov...
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February 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...
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📣 New on the CLaSP blog!
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
Gaming Workers Unionising to tackle the gaming industry — CLaSP Blog
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
www.claspblog.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📣 New on the CLaSP blog!
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors.
www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...
A good summary of some aspects of Milei’s first year in power (note: the protests on June 12 were not violent, the orchestrated repression was) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Argentina’s austerity year: painful cuts, rising poverty and a geopolitical gamble | Editorial
Editorial: In his first 12 months Javier Milei has imposed drastic economic measures – sparking protests while banking on an IMF bailout
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A good summary of some aspects of Milei’s first year in power (note: the protests on June 12 were not violent, the orchestrated repression was) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’ll be taking part of this event on Feb 6th looking at the possibilities and challenges of curatorial practice in relation to community engagement and decolonial action, organised by @museumofthehome.bsky.social www.museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
Home Truths: Behind the Scenes Round Table | Museum of the Home
Home Truths: Behind the Scenes Round Table - Ever wondered how exhibitions come to life? Join us for an exclusive round table discussion with our Museum curators and producers, alongside leading schol...
www.museumofthehome.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’ll be taking part of this event on Feb 6th looking at the possibilities and challenges of curatorial practice in relation to community engagement and decolonial action, organised by @museumofthehome.bsky.social www.museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/eve...