María Paloma Velázquez Art Worker & Researcher Commons username: @mariapalomavelazquez Following 0 members View ProfileActivitySites 0CORE deposits 8Following 0Followers 0Groups 0DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsAdvocacyAncient CosmologyAstronomyEcofeminismFeminismsGender studiesIntersectionalityOccultismPhilosophy of PhotographyQueer theoryStudent activismVisual culture Recent Commons Activity deposited ARTEMIS: A critical study on … deposited The Photographic Representati… deposited Garden of Eve: The role and p… AboutI am an independent researcher and art worker, with concerns for advocacy and intersectional feminisms. Most recently I have been interested in connecting academia and activism through communal practices, exploring the interweaving of labour and research. In my writing practice I have been focusing on the philosophy of photography in relation to the existence of queer-feminine ecologies. Work Shared in COREEssaysThe Photographic Representation of the Russian LGBT community’s current situationAre We What We Ate?Notes on Queer: Contemplations on Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” in relation to queer representation at the 2019 Met GalaMan on the Moon: A short, critical analysis of Neil Armstrong’s photograph from the Apollo 11 missionShooting Stars: A study on the (non)human nature of astronomical photography in relation to Joanna Zylinska’s The Creative Power of Nonhuman PhotographyAn Image of a Lunar ChildThesesARTEMIS: A critical study on the relations between the Feminine and the Moon (through lore, crafts and outer space)Garden of Eve: The role and place of women photographers in depicting the contemporary landscape Other PublicationsCareer story: María Paloma Velázquez (Trade Union for Art and Culture Professionals TAKU, 2021) International Women’s Day 2021: Feminist Practices and Practitioners from the MA ViCCA Programme (Aalto University, 2021) Work in progress: English-language accessibility for TAKU members (Trade Union for Art and Culture Professionals TAKU, 2021) Dialogues Together-apart on Feminisms, Intersectionality, Activism, Body (ViCCA Production catalogue, 2020) A 25m2 time capsule (Globe Art Point blog) Mad about Archiving – Histories in the Present (ViCCA Journal online) Blog Posts ProjectsRemote Storytelling Afternoons (online, March 2020-present, co-host) Kitchen Philosophy (online, as part of the Pori Biennale 2020) Futures in Process: Of Sites Rendering Speculation (online, 2020, co-curator) Nepali – An exhibition (Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki, 2019, curator) ELECtrix – Doctoral Conferment pop-up exhibition (Dipoli, 2019, curator) Guide to Simulated Futures (BETA Space Gallery, 2019, co-curator) East and West: Visualising the Ottoman City (Peltz Gallery, 2014, curatorial assistant)
