ACADEMIA DESPOSEÍDA 2025 PLANETARY RESILIENCE

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Curated by Andrés Senra (New York) and Raisa Maudit (Madrid)

Organized by Storm and Drunk. 

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Academia Desposeída is a cultural and artistic project organized by Storm and Drunk, curated and performed by Raisa Maudit and Andrés Senra. It proposes the creation of both virtual and physical meeting spaces through a series of sessions dedicated to building collective, accessible, and transdisciplinary knowledge by means of artistic creation and critical thought. These processes engage with contemporary reflections on the paradigm shifts that have taken place in the early decades of the 21st century—shifts often marginalized or excluded from institutional and official spheres of contemporary thought and art.

The Dispossessed Academy seeks to address emerging practices across seemingly diverse fields of knowledge, including biotechnology, philosophy, performance, architecture, ecology, history, the arts, mysticism, metaphysics, performative rituals, and creative thinking. These practices manifest in the artistic production of agents, collectives, art spaces, and national, local, and international artists who reframe the relationships between community artivism and the otherness of the dispossessed; interspecies relations that foster caring communities with the planet; the critique of the human as an anthropocentric discourse; feminist and spiritual practices that approach mysticism as a creative drive; text and archive as forms of artistic and material practice; magic and ritual practices that generate communities of affection and individual and collective transformation through performance and its documentation; the intersections of art and healing in relation to the spaces we inhabit, whether physical or virtual; and queer feminism and postcolonialism as currents of thought that question historical global hierarchies through horizontal and collaborative artistic practices.

The Academy is part of the Independent Spaces Grants Program of the Madrid City Council.

In the different sessions, the following entities, artists and curators are participating:

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel (Interior Beauty Salon) with actions by  Luis A. Lara Malvacías with Jeremy Nelson, Priscilla Marrero with Ferran Martín, and Larissa Velez-Jackson. Anna Gimein, Ruth Montiel Arias. 

Sponsors: Ayuntamiento de Madrid; Materials For The Arts, NY Culture Department, Governors Island Arts, NYLAAT,  Bronx Brewery, Dreams & co.

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SESIÓN 3

Lifting Up the Moon / Three Movement-Based Gestures in the Dark, in the Night, and Surrounded by Waters

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Video Documentation by the New York Public Library to come.

Conjured by  Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
With actions by  Luis A. Lara Malvacías with Jeremy Nelson,  Priscilla Marrero with Ferran Martín, and Larissa Velez-Jackson  
Presented with La Academia Desposeída
Those wishing to attend MUST arrive at the Governors Island ferry terminal  by 6:00 PM. The address is Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street (Lower Manhattan). Please dress in black.

In Wicca, Drawing Down the Moon, which is also the title of a classic publication by Margot Adler, points to the practice of invoking the Goddess as symbolized by the moon, and hence inviting her to enter the High Priestess. In the case of this nocturnal curation, Nicolás asks three Latinx dancers to raise energy from the Earth and to send it up to Spirit or Life Force, whatever their own personal understanding of this concept might be. The three actions in question are meant to be kindled during the night, and within the echoes and reverberations of New York City’s urban web of noises, sounds, creatures, and energies. This program arises from Nicolás’s belief that what is referred to as Art today initially served a spiritual purpose, that is, before devolving into a profession, tradable objects–corpses– and consumable/ marketable events; a spectacle. With this in mind, all three movements in Lifting Up the Moon are meant to return art, in whatever modest ways this might be possible, back into the sacred, especially at a time when patriarchy and capitalism are acting upon a necrophiliac agenda, and when the call is to resist and honor GAIA and creation/emanation, including its satellite the Moon.

All those willing to attend are asked to dress in black, so to blend into the night as we traverse the waters by way of the Governors Island Ferry

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