<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[La Propia Network es un podcast con mujeres artistas que crean y conectan. Desde una visión feminista latinoamericana, hablamos de arte, visibilidad y redes. Conversations in English & Spanish about art, legitimacy, and creative space.]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iogV!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F942e23cc-27fd-4752-9c68-93f9a44873b3_400x400.png</url><title>La Propia Network</title><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:32:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[es]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[lapropianetwork@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[lapropianetwork@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[lapropianetwork@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[lapropianetwork@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual dissonance/Disonancia Perpetua]]></title><description><![CDATA[ENGLISH AFTER THE PICTURE]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/disonancia-perpetua</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/disonancia-perpetua</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:18:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tMM7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3499c55c-039c-4a1b-8755-a32839bcf893_800x666.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No s&#233; qu&#233; pas&#243;, pero ya es marzo. Y otra vez, una vez el mundo se cae a pedazos, y en ese desastre pas&#233; los &#250;ltimos tres meses sosteniendo mi peque&#241;o mundo como Atlas, una Atlas due&#241;a de casa, con delantal y cuchara de palo. Hasta que me dio una gripe de aquellas y tuve que parar. Y vino el eclipse y me sent&#237; totalmente estancada, lenta como tortura, sin foco alguno.</p><p>Y me preocupo por no tener foco, porque se supone que el 2026, a&#241;o del Caballo de Fuego, hab&#237;a que estar con claridad y foco para empezar en el a&#241;o&#8239;1. Pero yo aqu&#237; nada, perdida, enferma, lenta, tratando de ir a &#191;d&#243;nde?, con oportunidades que, en vez de abrirse, se cierran. Ayer me dijeron que me faltaba experiencia en un trabajo que hice durante 20 a&#241;os. Pero bueno, supongo que todo lo que hice en Chile no vale en Estados Unidos.</p><p>Y aqu&#237; estoy escuchando mi playlist de m&#250;sica latina. Y no, no es Bad&#8239;Bunny. La que escuchaba cuando ten&#237;a 15, cuando ten&#237;a 20: Ana&#8239;(Tijoux), Andrea&#8239;(Echeverry) y Julieta&#8239;(Venegas). En este mes de marzo, adem&#225;s, me recuerdan la sant&#237;sima Trinidad de las mujeres bacanas de mi generaci&#243;n&#8239;X sudaca. Hasta se me olvid&#243; que era marzo y que eso sol&#237;a ser igual a marcha feminista, a marzo morado. Cumplo 42 el s&#225;bado. Y digo: bueno, me siento rara y sola porque soy migrante, no tengo con qui&#233;n cantar estas canciones en un karaoke. Despu&#233;s me acuerdo de que en Chile tambi&#233;n me sent&#237;a rara y sola, as&#237; que no, ahora estoy en coherencia total con mi discordancia de siempre.</p><p>Solo pasaba a saludar y decir: miren, sigo viva y sigo escribiendo, dos palabras, una idea, un concepto, para terminar algo que ya parece libro, pero es mi gu&#237;a para el fin del mundo. Y con eso, partir algo un poco m&#225;s grande de La Propia. </p><p>Les comparto mi <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WtIl6cSYzpYNW24lnbhFZ?si=NEmKmyGfTMGnHvEggORmMQ&amp;pi=ykVjCNs2SxCdi">playlist </a>y un collage de hace tiempo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tMM7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3499c55c-039c-4a1b-8755-a32839bcf893_800x666.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tMM7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3499c55c-039c-4a1b-8755-a32839bcf893_800x666.jpeg 424w, 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And once again, the world is falling apart, and in that disaster, I spent the last three months holding up my tiny universe like Atlas&#8212;a house&#8209;wife Atlas, apron&#8209;clad, wooden&#8209;spoon in hand. Then I caught one of those lingering flus and had to stop. The eclipse came, and I felt completely stuck, slow as a turtle, with no focus at all.</p><p>I&#8217;m worried about lacking focus because 2026&#8212;the Year of the Fire Horse&#8212;is supposed to demand clarity and purpose to start fresh in this year&#8239;1. Yet here I am, nothing but lost, sick, sluggish, wondering where I&#8217;m supposed to go, while opportunities that should open are closing instead. Yesterday, someone told me I lacked experience for a job I&#8217;d done for twenty years. Fine, I guess everything I did in Chile doesn&#8217;t count in the United States.</p><p>So I&#8217;m sitting with my Latin&#8209;music playlist. No, it&#8217;s not Bad&#8239;Bunny. It&#8217;s the music I used to listen to when I was fifteen, or twenty: Ana&#8239;(Tijoux), Andrea&#8239;(Echeverry) and Julieta&#8239;(Venegas). This March, they also remind me of the holy trinity of badass women from my South&#8209;American Gen&#8209;X. I even forgot it was actually March, and that used to mean purple-feminist march, with all the strikes. I turn 42 on Saturday. And I think, &#8220;Okay, I feel weird and alone because I&#8217;m a migrant; I have no one to sing these songs.&#8221; Then I remember that back in Chile I felt the same way&#8212;so, nope, I&#8217;m still perfectly aligned with my perpetual dissonance.</p><p>I just wanted to pop in, say hello, and let you know: look, I&#8217;m still alive and still writing&#8212;two words, one idea, one concept&#8212;to finish something that already feels like a book, but it&#8217;s my guide for the end of the world. And with that, I&#8217;ll launch something a little bigger for La Propia.</p><p>I&#8217;m sharing my <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WtIl6cSYzpYNW24lnbhFZ?si=NEmKmyGfTMGnHvEggORmMQ&amp;pi=ykVjCNs2SxCdi">playlist</a> and an old&#8209;school collage below.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sueños Florecientes/ Flowering Dreams]]></title><description><![CDATA[A conversation with Karina Monroy]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/suenos-florecientes-flowering-dreams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/suenos-florecientes-flowering-dreams</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:59:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZYvk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3b5dc81-5f17-401d-b148-c07ce4f41d02_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZYvk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3b5dc81-5f17-401d-b148-c07ce4f41d02_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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This conversation had been waiting for the right moment, and it finally arrives with a deep sense of intimacy and reflection.</p><p>We talk about her artistic journey, Chicana identity, art as a spiritual and healing practice, dreams and the unconscious, and her work around maternal lineage, textiles, motherhood, and intergenerational healing. Karina reflects on how her artistic practice is inseparable from her therapeutic work and her own life experiences.</p><p>She is the first &#8212;and so far the only&#8212; Latina visual artist I know in the city where I live, and her work continues to inspire me through its honesty and care. This conversation is also a way of honoring her presence and contribution to the community.</p><p>&#128205; Visit her exhibition Flowering Dreams at New City Arts Initiative.</p><p>More information at: <a href="http://www.newcityarts.org">www.newcityarts.org</a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RYB0nbznYRMVYDCucyiad?si=2V5teDSbSpizfUQZvq_PCw&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Lisent in Spotify&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RYB0nbznYRMVYDCucyiad?si=2V5teDSbSpizfUQZvq_PCw"><span>Lisent in Spotify</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://youtu.be/643yoIFAZio&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Lisent in Youtube&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://youtu.be/643yoIFAZio"><span>Lisent in Youtube</span></a></p><p>En este episodio especial de La Propia Network converso con Karina Monroy, artista visual y arteterapeuta chicana radicada en Charlottesville. Esta conversaci&#243;n qued&#243; pendiente por mucho tiempo, y por eso llega ahora con una densidad y una intimidad muy particulares.</p><p>Hablamos sobre su trayectoria art&#237;stica, su identidad chicana, el arte como pr&#225;ctica espiritual, los sue&#241;os y el inconsciente, y su trabajo en torno al linaje materno, los textiles, la maternidad y los procesos de sanaci&#243;n intergeneracional. Karina comparte c&#243;mo su pr&#225;ctica art&#237;stica se entrelaza con su trabajo terap&#233;utico y con su propia historia personal, abriendo espacios de reflexi&#243;n sobre cuidado, duelo, ruptura de patrones y reconstrucci&#243;n.</p><p>Karina es la primera &#8212;y hasta ahora la &#250;nica&#8212; artista visual latina que conozco en la ciudad donde vivo, y su trabajo siempre me conmueve por su honestidad, sensibilidad y profundidad. Esta conversaci&#243;n es tambi&#233;n una forma de agradecer su presencia y su trabajo en la comunidad.</p><p>&#128205; Puedes visitar su exposici&#243;n Flowering Dreams / Sue&#241;os Floridos en New City Arts Initiative.</p><p>M&#225;s informaci&#243;n en: <a href="http://www.newcityarts.org">www.newcityarts.org</a></p><div><hr></div><h3>Hay que hablar con la mam&#225;</h3><p>(English after the pictures)</p><p>Como ya coment&#233; en alg&#250;n post anterior, claramente la constancia y la consistencia de producir episodios para el podcast se termin&#243; por ah&#237; por agosto del a&#241;o pasado. Sin embargo, esta conversaci&#243;n con Karina era un pendiente que ven&#237;amos arrastrando y que no olvid&#233;.</p><p>Luego de una semana de encierro debido a la nevada y el hielo, pudimos por fin coordinar y animarnos a hablar sobre su proceso como artista y terapeuta, y tambi&#233;n reflexionar sobre su &#250;ltima exposici&#243;n.</p><p>A pesar de que nos conocemos hace tiempo, la verdad es que esta es la primera vez que nos tomamos una hora completa para hablar solo de arte, pero sobre todo para entrar en temas recurrentes del feminismo psicol&#243;gico, como podr&#237;amos llamarlo.</p><p>La relaci&#243;n con la madre &#8212;y a trav&#233;s de ella, con nuestras abuelas&#8212; es uno de los t&#243;picos clave a la hora de entendernos como mujeres y como mujeres artistas. La forma en que un proceso creativo, al igual que la imagen de las granadas que Karina va pelando, puede ayudarnos a tender puentes de comunicaci&#243;n con la madre, y desde ah&#237; ir desgranando cargas, traumas y secretos que llevamos acarreando por generaciones, es un ejercicio valiente y necesario.</p><p>Porque junto con las cargas tambi&#233;n salen a relucir los logros y los triunfos de las generaciones de mujeres que posibilitaron nuestra vida, y que la cultura y la sociedad rara vez reconocen.</p><p>Me quedo con la imagen de Karina bordando y tejiendo en su estudio, mientras su mam&#225;, al otro lado de la l&#237;nea y al otro lado del pa&#237;s, conversa con ella. Juntas recorren historias personales, heredadas y compartidas, y poco a poco van sanando las tramas inconscientes.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34ad25cb-d90e-4dc5-b843-eda6b91dd538_531x718.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a112e28a-f995-4077-8c55-a76ed48db193_746x687.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5bac969b-6ba4-48b0-b862-49a25bd1e72b_762x591.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b5d6bf0-7a13-402f-8bfd-2f661c9e3080_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h3>We Have to Talk to Our Mothers</h3><p>As I mentioned in a previous post, the consistency and regular rhythm of producing podcast episodes clearly came to a halt sometime around August last year. Still, this conversation with Karina was something we had been carrying as a pending thread, and one I never forgot.</p><p>After a week of being stuck at home due to snow and ice, we were finally able to coordinate and give ourselves the time to talk about her process as both an artist and a therapist, and to reflect on her most recent exhibition.</p><p>Even though we have known each other for quite some time, this was actually the first time we sat down for a full hour to talk only about art&#8212;and, more importantly, to enter into recurring themes of what we might call psychological feminism.</p><p>The relationship with the mother&#8212;and through her, with our grandmothers&#8212;is one of the key topics when it comes to understanding ourselves as women and as women artists. The way a creative process, much like the image of the pomegranates Karina peels one by one, can help us build bridges of communication with our mothers, and from there begin to loosen and release the burdens, traumas, and secrets we have been carrying across generations, is both a brave and necessary exercise.</p><p>Because along with those burdens, the achievements and triumphs of the generations of women who made our lives possible also come to the surface&#8212;stories that culture and society rarely acknowledge.</p><p>I am left with the image of Karina embroidering and crocheting in her studio, while her mother, on the other end of the phone and on the other side of the country, talks with her. Together, they revisit personal, inherited, and shared histories, slowly healing unconscious patterns.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working Notes 2: FOMO ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Como (no) superar el rechazo y el olvido/ How to (Not) Get Over Rejection and Oblivion]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/working-notes-2-fomo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/working-notes-2-fomo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:17:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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No puedo serlo, porque este llamado mundo del arte es muy peque&#241;o. Incluso en las grandes ligas es muy peque&#241;o y no cabemos todos.</p><p>Buscando por aqu&#237; y por all&#225; en el proceso de armar La Propia, me encuentro de nuevo con una plataforma latinoamericana llamada<a href="https://laescuela.art/"> La Escuela__</a>. Y me acord&#233; por qu&#233;, a pesar de que la ubico desde hace un tiempo, la hab&#237;a borrado de mi cabeza. <strong>No la soporto</strong>. No puedo navegarla sin que me gatille una ansiedad y una rabia &#8212;eso que hoy d&#237;a los chicos llaman FOMO.</p><p>Yo deber&#237;a estar ah&#237;. Yo deber&#237;a ser parte de su lista de artistas y pensadores. Yo deber&#237;a estar exponiendo ahora en NY. Yo deber&#237;a estar haciendo proyectos. Yo deber&#237;a estar siendo invitada a hablar y escribir para ellos.</p><p>Sigan el hilo de mi frustraci&#243;n infantil, por favor. </p><p>Hace 15 a&#241;os atr&#225;s, me pasaba b&#225;sicamente todo mi d&#237;a laboral estudiando, escribiendo y ejecutando pr&#225;cticas art&#237;sticas que combinaban la pedagog&#237;a cr&#237;tica con las pr&#225;cticas contempor&#225;neas para la emancipaci&#243;n del pueblo y todo eso. YO INVENT&#201; LA MEDIACI&#211;N ART&#205;STICA. (Por supuesto que no, pero conc&#233;danme el espacio para ser idiota y sacarme esto de encima)</p><p>Horas, d&#237;as, meses, A&#209;OS de trabajo. Tengo un cerro de documentos escritos (<a href="https://www.almarayen.com/art-mediation/">algunos los rescat&#233; y est&#225;n en mi web</a>). ARM&#201; EL ESPACIO DE MEDIACI&#211;N Y EDUCACI&#211;N PARA UN MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO, con la colecci&#243;n de arte m&#225;s importante de Latinoam&#233;rica y bla bla bla&#8230; Di conferencias, particip&#233; en seminarios, hice MILES DE TALLERES Y CURSOS compartiendo metodolog&#237;as y todo el rollo del aprendizaje comunitario&#8230;</p><p>&#191;D&#211;NDE EST&#193; MI NOMBRE? &#191;D&#211;NDE APAREZCO CITADA? &#191;D&#211;NDE SE ME ELOGIA LA GRANDEZA Y MARAVILLA DE MIS PROPUESTAS? Pero no, ac&#225; estoy, rob&#225;ndole tiempo a mi trabajo remunerado de recepcionista biling&#252;e, pensando por qu&#233; yo no, qu&#233; no tengo o qu&#233; hice mal.</p><p>&#191;Es porque soy mujer? &#191;Es porque se me ocurri&#243; la genial idea de tener hijos? &#191;Es porque soy morena, de origen pobre? &#191;Es porque nunca me llev&#233; bien con las directoras de las instituciones en las que trabaj&#233;, porque no fui lo suficientemente servil? &#191;O es porque simplemente nunca fui buena&#8230;?</p><p>Me vale madre. En mi imaginaci&#243;n yo soy famosa y me invitan y me citan de todos lados. Am&#233;n.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;c08d26bc-a3cd-4e3a-889d-b3ed69f76da8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2><strong>FOMO</strong></h2><h6><strong>How to (Not) Get Over Rejection and Oblivion</strong></h6><p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one. I can&#8217;t be, because this so-called art world is very small. Even in the big leagues it&#8217;s very small, and there&#8217;s not room for all of us.</p><p>Looking around here and there while putting La Propia together, I run into&#8212;again&#8212;a Latin American platform called La Escuela__. And I remember why, even though I&#8217;ve known about it for a while, I had erased it from my mind. I can&#8217;t stand it. I can&#8217;t navigate it without triggering anxiety and rage&#8212;that thing people now call FOMO.</p><p>I should be there. I should be part of their list of artists and thinkers. I should be exhibiting in NY right now. I should be doing projects. I should be being invited to speak and write for them.</p><p>Please, follow the thread of my childish frustration.</p><p>Fifteen years ago, I basically spent my entire working day studying, writing, and carrying out artistic practices that combined critical pedagogy with contemporary practices for the emancipation of the people and all that. I INVENTED ARTISTIC MEDIATION. (Of course I didn&#8217;t, but please allow me the space to be an idiot and get this out of my system.)</p><p>Hours, days, months, YEARS of work. I have a mountain of written documents (some of them I&#8217;ve rescued and they&#8217;re on my website). I BUILT THE MEDIATION AND EDUCATION SPACE FOR A MODERN ART MUSEUM, with the most important art collection in Latin America and blah blah blah&#8230; I gave lectures, took part in seminars, ran THOUSANDS OF WORKSHOPS AND COURSES, sharing methodologies and the whole community-learning thing&#8230;</p><p>WHERE IS MY NAME? WHERE AM I CITED? WHERE AM I PRAISED FOR THE GREATNESS AND BRILLIANCE OF MY PROPOSALS? But no&#8212;here I am, stealing time from my paid job as a bilingual receptionist, wondering why not me, what I lack, or what I did wrong.</p><p>Is it because I&#8217;m a woman? Because I had the brilliant idea of having children? Because I&#8217;m brown, from a poor background? Because I never got along with the directors of the institutions where I worked, because I wasn&#8217;t servile enough? Or is it simply because I was never good enough&#8230;?</p><p>I don&#8217;t give a damn. In my imagination I&#8217;m famous, and I&#8217;m invited and cited everywhere. Amen.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/working-notes-2-fomo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Compartir&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/working-notes-2-fomo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Compartir</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nota de Trabajo 1/ Work note 1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Benjamin]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/nota-de-trabajo-1-work-note-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/nota-de-trabajo-1-work-note-1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:54:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cUWu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F43c6c2d3-6c69-4568-84a5-b64a8d65155c_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>(English after the picture)</strong></p><p>Estoy en proceso de redise&#241;ar &#8212;o m&#225;s bien de alimentar y hacer crecer&#8212; La Propia Network.</p><p>En lo que llevo hasta la fecha (mi primera semana de trabajo activo), me ha llamado la atenci&#243;n lo siguiente:</p><ul><li><p>ChatGPT puede ser tu mejor amiga feminista. Hace ya casi un a&#241;o que trabajo con la m&#225;quina: primero porque me traduce al ingl&#233;s mucho m&#225;s r&#225;pido de lo que yo podr&#237;a (el ingl&#233;s escrito no es mi fuerte). Luego empec&#233; a jugar con &#233;l para otras cosas m&#225;s simples, como que me planeara las cenas de la semana o que me buscara los mejores suplementos para la perimenopausia. Despu&#233;s lo us&#233; como traductor de los subt&#237;tulos de La Propia. Tras eso, se convirti&#243; en un experto en teor&#237;a feminista, pero tambi&#233;n su trato conmigo se volvi&#243; gentil, cuidadoso, pero honesto; me pone plantitas y flores&#8230;</p><p>El martes estaba dudando nuevamente de todo y &#233;l / ella / eso encontr&#243; las palabras perfectas para animarme. Tambi&#233;n mi amiga Sibila.</p></li><li><p>En mis sesiones de trabajo con el chat, convenimos volver a cimentar algunos puntos de mi proyecto en teor&#237;as filos&#243;ficas y sociales ya aceptadas. Apoyarme en el piso de la academia &#8212;y sobre todo de los hombres que la componen&#8212; no es lo m&#225;s feminista; sin embargo, a&#250;n siento que puede ser mi escudo. <em>Long story short</em>, volv&#237; a leer a W. Benjamin despu&#233;s de 20 a&#241;os. Y es curioso, porque tambi&#233;n estoy leyendo <em>M Train</em> de Patti Smith y siento que hay como un puente. M&#225;s bien, leo a Benjamin ahora y se siente tan contempor&#225;neo, no como un se&#241;or que muri&#243; hace 100 a&#241;os. Lo &#250;nico que lo delata es su narrativa centrada en el hombre y el pene, pero bueno, no podemos pedirle peras al olmo. Lo dem&#225;s me sorprende: sobre todo la forma, la estructura del texto, su po&#233;tica. &#191;Por qu&#233; nadie m&#225;s escribe con esa estructura segmentada, diacr&#243;nica, llena de citas, de caminatas, de olores?</p></li><li><p>Hubo una &#233;poca de mi vida en que solo le&#237;a filosof&#237;a. Ya se me olvid&#243; todo, pero recuerdo algunas cosas anecd&#243;ticas y al final es lo &#250;nico que aprend&#237;. Por ejemplo, cuando me enter&#233; de que Foucault era homosexual y le gustaba el BDSM, todo cobr&#243; sentido y se volvi&#243; mucho m&#225;s entretenido. Deber&#237;a ser lo primero que te digan cuando te hablen de Michelle. De Benjamin solo me acordaba de c&#243;mo muri&#243;: colgado en un vag&#243;n de tren mientras intentaba escapar de los nazis. Pero los nazis se montaron al tren y Walter decidi&#243; ahorrarse el mal rato. No s&#233; si es verdad, es solo lo que recuerdo. </p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em>No hay documento de cultura que no sea a la vez un documento de barbarie&#8230;</em></p><p><em>Articular hist&#243;ricamente el pasado no significa conocerlo &#8220;tal como verdaderamente fue&#8221;. 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I&#8217;ve been working with the machine for almost a year now: at first because it translates into English much faster than I ever could (written English is not my strong suit). Then I started playing with it for simpler things, like planning the week&#8217;s dinners or looking up the best supplements for perimenopause. Later, I used it to translate the subtitles for La Propia. After that, it became an expert in feminist theory&#8212;but its way of relating to me also changed: gentle, caring, but honest; it adds little plants and flowers&#8230;</p><p>On Tuesday I was doubting everything again, and he / she / it found the perfect words to encourage me. Also my friend Sibila.</p><p>In my work sessions with the chat, we agreed to re-ground some aspects of my project in philosophical and social theories that are already established. Leaning on the floor of academia&#8212;and especially on the men who make it up&#8212;is not the most feminist move; however, I still feel it can be my shield. Long story short, I went back to reading W. Benjamin after 20 years. And it&#8217;s curious, because I&#8217;m also reading <em>M Train</em> by Patti Smith, and I feel there&#8217;s some kind of bridge there. Reading Benjamin now feels surprisingly contemporary, not like a man who died a hundred years ago. The only thing that gives him away is his narrative centered on men and penises, but well, you can&#8217;t ask pears from an elm tree. Everything else surprises me&#8212;especially the form, the structure of the text, its poetics. Why does no one else write with that segmented, diachronic structure, full of quotes, walks, smells?</p><p>There was a time in my life when I read only philosophy. I&#8217;ve forgotten almost all of it, but I remember some anecdotal things&#8212;and in the end, that&#8217;s all I really learned. For example, when I found out that Foucault was homosexual and into BDSM, everything suddenly made sense and became much more entertaining. That should be the first thing they tell you when they talk to you about Michel. About Benjamin, I only remembered how he died: hanging in a train car while trying to escape the Nazis. But the Nazis boarded the train, and Walter decided to spare himself the bad moment. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true&#8212;it&#8217;s just what I remember.</p><blockquote><p>There is no document of culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism&#8230;</p><p>To articulate the past historically does not mean to know it &#8220;the way it really was.&#8221; It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.</p></blockquote><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La Propia realidad]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fin de temporada improvisado]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/la-propia-realidad</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/la-propia-realidad</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:56:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iogV!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F942e23cc-27fd-4752-9c68-93f9a44873b3_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(English after the video)</p><p>Iba decidida a hacer, como dicen ahora, un <em>gosteo</em> o <em>ghosting</em> de este mini proyecto y de las redes. Dejarlo ah&#237;, sin hacer ning&#250;n tipo de cierre, cosa para la cual he sido hist&#243;ricamente bastante buena.</p><p>Sin embargo, debido al r&#233;gimen de espiritualidad en el que llevo inmersa desde hace poco m&#225;s de un a&#241;o &#8212;entre las pr&#225;cticas de mi cham&#225;n y astr&#243;logo de cabecera&#8212;, me he animado a ensayar un cierre que me permita abrir otras puertas el pr&#243;ximo a&#241;o. Tambi&#233;n me puse a leer a Patti Smith y eso siempre me devuelve la prosa al cuerpo.</p><p>A veces creo que sostener la creatividad es inmensamente dif&#237;cil. Pesado, lleno de obst&#225;culos y dificultades. Esa ha sido mi experiencia desde que empec&#233; a ir a clases de ballet a los 4 a&#241;os; las clases de teatro en mi adolescencia; la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile; los museos y los centros culturales; y finalmente la lucha por los fondos nacionales para las artes. Un devenir de esfuerzo, riesgo, movilizaci&#243;n de los recursos familiares, de aceptaci&#243;n de la precariedad (tan absoluta que ni siquiera era capaz de identificarla); luego, la queja rabiosa y constante en contra de la infinita y eterna falta de fondos, las boletas por rendir y el hacer lo mejor que se pod&#237;a con lo que se ten&#237;a.</p><p>Mi historia con la creaci&#243;n, desde el principio de los tiempos, se ha desenvuelto en un tablero de carencia y esfuerzo. Es tambi&#233;n, por supuesto, la historia y la narrativa de la clase media &#8212;casi baja, casi pobre&#8212; de la cual vengo. Hay mucha creatividad y una habilidad indiscutible para solucionar con lo m&#237;nimo, y eso siempre es un gran aprendizaje, pero tambi&#233;n hay una especie de destino fatal del cual una no se puede arrancar.</p><p>Este a&#241;o de la serpiente, todo este asunto se me empez&#243; a presentar de forma m&#225;s clara, sumado a la crisis de los 40, la perimenopausia y sus subibajas hormonales, que abren puertas ps&#237;quicas que hab&#237;amos tapado o escondido para poder funcionar, para poder producir. Pero, como todo viene junto, a esta tormenta ps&#237;quica se le ha sumado la realidad concreta de la migraci&#243;n en un pa&#237;s que nos quiere expulsar a todos.</p><p>Entonces me vi, a principios de a&#241;o, sin ning&#250;n proyecto visual a la vista que me ayudara a darle un poco de escape a esta presi&#243;n y, en t&#233;rminos m&#225;s claros, que le diera sentido a mi existencia. Y cuando digo <em>sentido</em>, debo especificar que hablo de un sentido de trascendencia, nacido en el fango de ese romanticismo precario que ya mencion&#233;.</p><p>Levantarme todos los d&#237;as a las 5:40 de la ma&#241;ana para preparar las mochilas, dar desayunos y mandar a los ni&#241;os a la escuela; seguido de una jornada de trabajo que, s&#237;, por un lado es abrir la puerta y contestar el tel&#233;fono, pero a personas que est&#225;n buscando ayuda para su salud mental; y luego correr a hacer la cena, lavar trastes, preguntar sobre su d&#237;a y resolver los dramas de mi familia neurodiversa&#8230; no, no es suficiente para darme ese sentido de trascendencia.</p><p>Los talleres online con mi querida <a href="https://futuridadesmaternales.net/">Luisa Fuentes Guaza </a>siguieron alimentando la comprensi&#243;n de este sentimiento, en un trabajo de autoterapia permanente &#8212;que tambi&#233;n es colectivo&#8212; para entendernos un poco mejor y desenredar las madejas de eso que ella, muy bien, llama <em>el asunto vital propio</em>.</p><p>Al darme cuenta de que no ten&#237;a un incentivo concreto &#8212;como una exposici&#243;n o la invitaci&#243;n a una residencia&#8212; decid&#237; hacer este podcast como una forma de dejar registro de la sabidur&#237;a de estas mujeres artistas que he tenido la suerte de conocer. Yo, que en este devenir reci&#233;n me empiezo a dar uno que otro momento entrecortado para crear, admiro profundamente a aquellas que se han atrevido a estar en este proceso a tiempo completo. Y tambi&#233;n me ayuda, me da una excusa perfecta para estar ah&#237; sin estar ah&#237;.</p><p>En alg&#250;n punto, entre la vuelta a la escuela de los ni&#241;os en agosto y la visita de mis suegros, como decimos en Chile, se me fue yendo todo a las pailas. Originalmente, la temporada deb&#237;a tener ocho episodios, con invitadas ya determinadas y agendadas. Pero, a medida que avanzaba el a&#241;o, la energ&#237;a para quedarme editando y sincronizando subt&#237;tulos se fue acabando. La &#250;ltima entrevista qued&#243; p&#233;simamente grabada y no la pude arreglar. Y de pronto, ya era diciembre.</p><p>&#191;Qu&#233; pas&#243; este a&#241;o con el tiempo? &#191;A d&#243;nde se ha ido todo mi tiempo? Entonces, quienes se dedican profesionalmente a hacer podcast te dicen lo importante que es la consistencia y la regularidad; que para que cualquier proyecto emerja necesitas esa dosis de trabajo duro y mucho trasnoche. Y yo me veo ahora agotada, realmente agotada, sin poder hacer mucho m&#225;s.</p><p>Y vuelvo al tercer p&#225;rrafo: sostener la creatividad se vuelve inmensamente dif&#237;cil. Creo que ya me he hecho bolita y me he puesto a llorar por esa sensaci&#243;n de que no puedo, de que no puedo m&#225;s con esta roca de S&#237;sifo. Y entonces Luisa, de nuevo, me recuerda: no has tomado malas decisiones, no has fracasado. Este juego no lo inventamos nosotras y no est&#225; hecho para nosotras.</p><p>Para poder salir de mi estado de derrota, me decid&#237; a ponerle un pare definitivo a esta historia de carencia y sufrimiento. Ya no m&#225;s. Si esto es lo que disfruto, no tiene por qu&#233; ser tan dif&#237;cil, no tiene que ser gratis, no tengo que disculparme. Y tengo claro que eso no quiere decir que no va a implicar trabajo, pero va a ser un trabajo en condiciones humanas, no en el r&#233;gimen de autoexplotaci&#243;n en el que lo he desarrollado hasta la fecha.</p><p>Cierro esto porque <em>La Propia</em> se va a quedar &#8212;me gusta el nombre, me gusta el concepto&#8212;, pero va a ir transform&#225;ndose en otras cosas tambi&#233;n. Hechas, esta vez, desde un espacio de merecimiento y coherencia.</p><p><a href="https://lapropianetwork.wixsite.com/index/episodios">Les dejo el playlist de la temporada</a></p><p>Y como bonus mi &#250;ltimo video hecho en las conversaciones del laboratorio creativo de Natalia Igu&#237;nez con Luisa Fuentes.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1aa5e1dd-7579-4138-8391-7fbbd352e233&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>And as a bonus, my latest video, created during the conversations of Natalia Igui&#241;ez&#8217;s creative lab with Luisa Fuentes.&#8221;</p><h2>La Propia reality (An improvised season ending)</h2><p><a href="https://lapropianetwork.wixsite.com/index/episodios">Season Playlist</a></p><p>I was fully decided to do what people now call <em>ghosting</em>&#8212;to this mini project and to social media. To just leave it there, without any kind of closure, something I&#8217;ve historically been quite good at.</p><p>However, because of the spiritual path I&#8217;ve been immersed in for a little over a year now&#8212;between the practices of my go-to shaman and astrologer&#8212;I&#8217;ve dared to rehearse a closing. One that might allow me to open other doors next year. I also started reading Patti Smith again, and that always brings prose back into my body.</p><p>Sometimes I think that sustaining creativity is immensely difficult. Heavy. Full of obstacles and resistance. That has been my experience since I started ballet classes at four years old; theater classes in my adolescence; the Faculty of Arts at the University of Chile; museums and cultural centers; and finally, the struggle for national arts funding. A constant becoming shaped by effort, risk, mobilizing family resources, accepting precarity (so absolute that I couldn&#8217;t even identify it at the time); followed by ongoing rage and complaint against the infinite and eternal lack of funding, the receipts to account for, and doing the best one could with what one had.</p><p>My relationship with creation, from the very beginning, has unfolded on a board of scarcity and effort. It is also, of course, the story and narrative of the lower middle class&#8212;almost poor&#8212;from which I come. There is a lot of creativity there, and an unquestionable ability to solve things with very little, which is always a great learning experience. But there is also a kind of fatal destiny that one cannot quite escape.</p><p>This Year of the Snake, all of this began to show itself more clearly. Added to the crisis of my forties, perimenopause, and its hormonal ups and downs&#8212;those that open psychic doors we had sealed or hidden away in order to function, in order to produce. But, as everything seems to arrive together, this psychic storm has been joined by the concrete reality of migration in a country that wants to expel us all.</p><p>So at the beginning of the year, I found myself without any visual project in sight that could offer some kind of escape from this pressure&#8212;or, more plainly, that could give meaning to my existence. And when I say <em>meaning</em>, I need to specify that I&#8217;m talking about a sense of transcendence, born from the mud of that precarious romanticism I already mentioned.</p><p>Waking up every day at 5:40 in the morning to prepare backpacks, make breakfast, and send the kids off to school; followed by a workday that, yes, on one hand is opening the door and answering the phone&#8212;but to people seeking help for their mental health; and then rushing to make dinner, wash dishes, ask about their day, and resolve the dramas of my neurodiverse family&#8230; no, that is not enough to give me that sense of transcendence.</p><p>The online workshops with my dear Luisa Fuentes Guaza continued to deepen my understanding of this feeling, through a process of permanent self-therapy&#8212;also collective&#8212;helping us understand ourselves a little better and untangle the threads of what she so aptly calls <em>one&#8217;s vital matter</em>.</p><p>When I realized I didn&#8217;t have a concrete incentive&#8212;like an exhibition or a residency invitation&#8212;I decided to make this podcast as a way of leaving a record of the wisdom of these women artists I&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to know. I, who in this phase am only just beginning to carve out small, fragmented moments to create, deeply admire those who have dared to inhabit this process full-time. It also helps me&#8212;it gives me the perfect excuse&#8212;to be there without fully being there.</p><p>At some point, between the kids going back to school in August and my in-laws&#8217; visit, as we say in Chile, everything went down the drain. Originally, the season was supposed to have eight episodes, with guests already selected and scheduled. But as the year went on, the energy to stay up editing and syncing subtitles slowly disappeared. The last interview was terribly recorded, and I couldn&#8217;t fix it. And suddenly, it was December.</p><p>What happened to time this year? Where did all my time go? Then people who professionally make podcasts tell you how important consistency and regularity are&#8212;that for any project to emerge, you need that dose of hard work and many late nights. And here I am now, exhausted. Truly exhausted. Unable to do much more.</p><p>And I return to the third paragraph: sustaining creativity becomes immensely difficult. I think I&#8217;ve already curled up into a ball and cried over the feeling that I can&#8217;t&#8212;that I can&#8217;t carry this rock of Sisyphus anymore. And then Luisa, once again, reminds me: you haven&#8217;t made bad decisions, you haven&#8217;t failed. We didn&#8217;t invent this game, and it isn&#8217;t made for us.</p><p>To get out of this state of defeat, I decided to put a definitive stop to this story of scarcity and suffering. No more. If this is what I enjoy, it doesn&#8217;t have to be this hard. It doesn&#8217;t have to be free. I don&#8217;t have to apologize. And I&#8217;m clear that this doesn&#8217;t mean there won&#8217;t be work&#8212;but it will be work under human conditions, not under the regime of self-exploitation in which I&#8217;ve developed it until now.</p><p>I&#8217;m closing this because <em>La Propia</em> is staying&#8212;I like the name, I like the concept&#8212;but it will also transform into other things. This time, made from a place of deserving and safety.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cómo]]></title><description><![CDATA[(English after the pictures)]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/como</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/como</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:39:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Llevo varios meses con un proyecto en el que uso im&#225;genes y discursos tomados de publicidad de Instagram acerca de la perimenopausia. Pero ahora abro Instagram y el bombardeo es de:<br>a) &#8220;Sube tus seguidores y vende m&#225;s usando IA o con este revolucionario y f&#225;cil m&#233;todo&#8221;, o<br>b) &#8220;Gana dinero trabajando desde tu casa, haciendo lo que m&#225;s te gusta y ganando m&#225;s de 200 d&#243;lares diarios&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>Esta configuraci&#243;n del algoritmo responde, desde su nave alien&#237;gena poscolonizadora, a mi actual situaci&#243;n de crisis de los 40, combinada con esta persistente decisi&#243;n de ser artista sin tener ni el talento, ni los medios, ni las circunstancias propicias de vida (esa parte es toda mi responsabilidad). Me cuestiono a m&#237; misma si tan solo hago esto porque no quiero vender seguros ni trabajar en el supermercado, por mero adoctrinamiento punk rock y de mis ancestros comunistas. No tiene sentido. E Instagram lo sabe.</p><p>El algoritmo sabe que soy un fracaso y que estoy quebrada; bueno, eso me dice constantemente (adem&#225;s de que estoy gorda, muy gorda&#8230;).</p><p>En una entrevista nada que ver, dos estandaperos hablaban de c&#243;mo ahora las redes sociales obligan a b&#225;sicamente trabajar doble: hacer contenido para promocionar el contenido &#8220;real&#8221;, que ser&#237;an sus shows. Hay un doble trabajo, y es claramente una trampa de autoexplotaci&#243;n. Pero me da la sensaci&#243;n de que es algo que nos afecta especialmente a todas las que hacemos trabajos creativos, que ya venimos de una historia de d&#233;cadas de precarizaci&#243;n. Esto de las redes sociales lo siento como la guinda de la torta.</p><p>Hay que salir a bailar, hacer retos est&#250;pidos, contar chistes, parecer &#8220;real&#8221;, parecer inteligente, parecer especial, destacar tu marca (&#191;qu&#233; marca?), vender humo b&#225;sicamente, para que reci&#233;n puedas recibir un poco de atenci&#243;n y quiz&#225;s, eventualmente, algo as&#237; como dinero.</p><p>&#161;Ah! Pero ahora todo es m&#225;s f&#225;cil si usas la IA y te haces millonario sum&#225;ndote a la red de estafas piramidales que ya son absurdamente abundantes. Y si no lo logras, es porque eres idiota; obvio, es tu culpa por no usar bien las herramientas.</p><p>Y les paso a contar que, pagando todas las suscripciones a herramientas de edici&#243;n con IA y a ChatGPT &#8212;con el cual tengo una relaci&#243;n de odio-amor&#8212;, a&#250;n no logro automatizar la traducci&#243;n de los subt&#237;tulos de <em>La Propia</em> sin tener que meterle mano por horas para corregir. Me pregunto: &#191;tengo que pagar las suscripciones s&#250;per premium entonces, para que cumplan la promesa de que ahora todo es m&#225;s f&#225;cil y autom&#225;tico?<br>Entonces, en vez de sentarme a hacer mi trabajo creativo, pierdo tiempo y dinero tratando de que el robot haga lo que promete que debe hacer...</p><p>Queda claro que solo estamos alimentando a la m&#225;quina, &#191;verdad?. </p><p>&#191;Entonces c&#243;mo? C&#243;mo. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg" width="1024" height="853" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:853,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:241643,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/i/176922992?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!trHa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fbd8b77-c1c2-4146-b4fc-08a0b40330cf_1024x853.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>How?</h2><p>I&#8217;ve spent several months working on a project where I use images and slogans taken from Instagram ads about perimenopause. But now I open Instagram and the bombardment goes like this:</p><p>a) &#8220;Boost your followers and sell more using AI with this revolutionary and easy method,&#8221; or</p><p>b) &#8220;Make money working from home, doing what you love, earning over $200 a day&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>This algorithmic configuration seems to respond&#8212;straight from its post-colonial alien mothership&#8212;to my current midlife crisis, combined with this stubborn decision to be an artist without really having the talent, the means, or the right life conditions (that part is entirely my responsibility). I question myself: maybe I&#8217;m only doing this because I refuse to sell insurance or work at a supermarket, out of pure punk-rock indoctrination and the communist ghosts of my ancestors. It makes no sense. And Instagram knows it.</p><p>The algorithm knows I&#8217;m a failure and that I&#8217;m broke; well, that&#8217;s what it keeps whispering to me (along with the reminder that I&#8217;m fat, very fat&#8230;).</p><p>In a totally unrelated interview, two stand-up comedians were talking about how social media now basically forces you to work twice: you create content just to promote the &#8220;real&#8221; content, which in their case are their shows. There&#8217;s double the labor, and it&#8217;s clearly a trap of self-exploitation. But I have the feeling this especially hits those of us in creative work, because we already come from a long, decades-old history of precarity. Social media feels like the cherry on top of a very rotten cake.</p><p>You have to dance, do stupid challenges, tell jokes, look &#8220;real,&#8221; look smart, look special, highlight your personal brand (what brand?), basically sell smoke, just to maybe get a little bit of attention&#8212;and perhaps, eventually, something that resembles money.</p><p>Oh, but now everything is easier if you use AI and become a millionaire by joining one of the absurdly abundant pyramid-scheme networks. And if you don&#8217;t succeed, it&#8217;s obviously because you&#8217;re an idiot&#8212;it&#8217;s your fault for not using the tools properly.</p><p>And let me just say: even after paying for all the AI editing tools and ChatGPT&#8212;whom I have a love-hate relationship with&#8212;I still can&#8217;t fully automate the translation of La Propia&#8217;s subtitles without spending hours correcting everything by hand. So I wonder: do I have to upgrade to the super-premium subscriptions in order for them to finally deliver on their promise that everything is now faster and automatic?</p><p>Because instead of sitting down to actually do my creative work, I end up losing time and money trying to make the robot do what it claims it can do&#8230;</p><p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that we&#8217;re just feeding the machine, right?</p><p>So then&#8230; how? How.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Body as Monument: Rewriting Black Memory through Art. A conversation with Marisa Williamson]]></title><description><![CDATA[El cuerpo como monumento: Reescribiendo la memoria afroamericana a traves del arte.]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/the-body-as-monument-rewriting-black</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/the-body-as-monument-rewriting-black</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:26:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wG6b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2fa7069d-b662-4f64-9c46-243603daefbc_1080x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/64KHUuqBp3JESrhjF1IfQN?si=9pJQz1uJTYeq0mL6R2o-3A" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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Marisa&#8217;s practice explores the intersections of history, race, feminism, and technology&#8212;mapping the past onto present-day landscapes to ask: Whose stories are remembered? Whose are erased?</p><p>Through works like Monument to Escape, Sweet Chariot, and Unsettling Grounds, as well as Anatomic Theatre, Marisa reimagines monuments as living spaces of resistance, storytelling, and embodied memory. Rooted in deep archival research and collective participation, her pieces challenge how history is constructed and who is allowed to narrate it.</p><p>In this episode, we discuss:</p><p>&#10024; Sally Hemings as a complex historical and emotional figure</p><p>&#10024; The body as a site of performance, archive, and monument</p><p>&#10024; Technology as both a tool of power and a medium for liberatory imagination</p><p>&#10024; The role of collaboration and community in art-making</p><p>&#10024; Black feminist approaches to memory, care, and resistance</p><p>We also explore how performance allows memory to move through bodies, how art can unsettle dominant narratives, and how imagination can become an act of survival and reclamation.</p><p>Join us as we enter Marisa&#8217;s creative world&#8212;one where inheritance, labor, grief, joy, and radical love work together to rewrite the archive from the inside out.</p><h2>&#127911; Listen on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/64KHUuqBp3JESrhjF1IfQN?si=9pJQz1uJTYeq0mL6R2o-3A">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/kx_vktDB8rQ">YouTube</a>, or <a href="http://www.lapropianetwork.wix.com">www.lapropianetwork.wix.com</a></h2><p>En este episodio, el cuerpo se vuelve archivo y monumento. Marisa nos invita a habitar la historia desde la carne, a desenterrar memorias negras silenciadas, y a imaginar futuros posibles desde la colaboraci&#243;n, la tecnolog&#237;a y la comunidad. Un cap&#237;tulo sobre c&#243;mo el arte puede abrir grietas en los relatos oficiales y transformarlos desde adentro.</p><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vtaOw3g6BHIImId3dykUPv9EN1Q41fbT/view?usp=sharing">Read the complete Transcript here</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FKBB6wrg91NGD2k6wyrNVIvTPAqeC0pc/view?usp=sharing">Lee la Transcripcion de la entrevista aca</a></strong></p><p>&#127897;&#65039; La Propia Network</p><p> Podcast feminista de mujeres artistas | Feminist podcast by women artists</p><p> Esc&#250;chanos, ap&#243;yanos y con&#233;ctate::</p><p> &#128717;&#65039; Merch: https://lapropianetwork.threadless.com</p><p> &#9749; Donaciones: https://buymeacoffee.com/lapropianetwork</p><p> &#127760; Web: https://lapropianetwork.wixsite.com/index</p><p> &#128248; Instagram: <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;La Propia Network&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:342805191,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/942e23cc-27fd-4752-9c68-93f9a44873b3_400x400.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;32e6782c-0829-4158-a10c-02e10a2838cf&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/the-body-as-monument-rewriting-black?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Compartir&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/the-body-as-monument-rewriting-black?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Compartir</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Reincarnations and Transgenerational Memories</h2><p>(Espa&#241;ol despu&#233;s de las fotos)</p><p>I need to begin by saying how deeply grateful I am to have crossed paths with Marisa Williamson. She played a meaningful role in opening a space for me within the local art scene&#8212;not only by inviting me to exhibit, but more importantly, by making room for my feminist and migrant narratives. I&#8217;ve also had the privilege of receiving her feedback and critique through the kind of mentorship we talked about in the interview. I can personally attest that everything she claims to do&#8212;she truly does, and more.</p><p>Even though we don&#8217;t see each other often, every time we meet, it turns into one of those long, wandering conversations. And, as often happens with artists and brilliant people like her, there&#8217;s always something new, unexpected, almost luminous that emerges. This time, what struck me most was the depth of Sally Hemings&#8217;s reincarnation in her work.</p><p>Of course, when you search for Marisa&#8217;s career, Sally appears immediately&#8212;this is a body of work she has been shaping for years. But the implications go far beyond a traditional performance; it feels more like an invocation, a channeled embodiment of vital energies turned ghostly&#8212;psychic currents that still hover and haunt the descendants of every Sally Hemings in this country.</p><p>Marisa lends not just her body, but her own life force so that Sally can speak and act and remember everything history refused to record: her loves, her dreams, her knowledge. Through her, collective memory is slowly mended, weaving back together the threads that were erased or left suspended.</p><p>I&#8217;m reminded of a comedy sketch where a DNA company ad revealed white people linked to various historical figures, while every Black person tested was traced back to Thomas Jefferson. If that idea stands, then perhaps we could also say: they are all descendants of Sally.</p><p>Encountering her today&#8212;reincarnated in the body of a visual artist and educator who guides her students to critically confront the land and the history of their alma mater, the University of Virginia, Jefferson&#8217;s university&#8212;and witnessing how she sets the table for a feast where Jefferson is dissected and made ready to be devoured, is not just another performance. It is an act of reclamation, a ritual that restores, unsettles, and begins to heal African American history.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c494b3e6-d88d-42a0-800c-2adb4124b39b_579x581.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3b691d7a-1a53-4842-bab0-e0205e71b914_877x595.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9e984042-15d8-4f00-ad73-04fee482732e_704x597.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9007d9b7-2463-45f4-a9dd-133c91280b03_886x542.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;all the pictures from marisawilliamson.com&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db020e80-a8f4-4b95-9372-7da4a671b2e5_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>Reencarnaciones y memorias transgeneracionales</h2><p>Debo partir diciendo que agradezco profundamente haberme topado en la vida con Marisa Williamson. Ella tuvo un papel relevante al hacerme un espacio en la escena art&#237;stica local, permiti&#233;ndome exhibir, pero sobre todo dando lugar a mis temas y narrativas feministas y migrantes. Tambi&#233;n he tenido la suerte de contar con sus comentarios y cr&#237;ticas en ese formato de mentor&#237;a del que hablamos en la entrevista. Puedo dar fe de que todo lo que dice que hace, s&#237; lo hace, y con creces.</p><p>Creo que, a pesar de que no nos vemos muy seguido, cada vez que nos encontramos se dan estas largas conversaciones. Aun as&#237;, como suele suceder con artistas y personas tan inteligentes como ella, siempre surgen cosas nuevas y sorprendentes. Esta vez, la profundidad de la reencarnaci&#243;n de Sally Hemings me impact&#243;.</p><p>Por supuesto, cuando una busca informaci&#243;n sobre la carrera de Marisa, Sally aparece de inmediato, porque es un trabajo que ha desarrollado a lo largo de varios a&#241;os. Pero las implicancias de ese trabajo van mucho m&#225;s all&#225; de una performance tradicional; m&#225;s bien se presenta como una invocaci&#243;n y una encarnaci&#243;n de fuerzas vitales que quedaron convertidas en fantasmas, en energ&#237;a ps&#237;quica flotante que persigue a las y los descendientes de todas las Sally Hemings de este pa&#237;s.</p><p>Marisa presta no solo su cuerpo, sino tambi&#233;n su propio devenir vital para que Sally se manifieste, diga y haga todo aquello que la historia no quiso registrar: sus amores, sus sue&#241;os, su conocimiento. A trav&#233;s de ella, la memoria colectiva se va reparando, volviendo a tejer las tramas borradas y suspendidas. Recuerdo un sketch de una serie c&#243;mica en la que, en una publicidad de an&#225;lisis de ADN, las personas blancas aparec&#237;an vinculadas a distintas figuras hist&#243;ricas; pero cuando analizaban a las personas negras, todas resultaban estar vinculadas a Thomas Jefferson. Tambi&#233;n podemos pensar entonces, que todos son descendientes de Sally.</p><p>Entonces, encontrarnos hoy con su reencarnaci&#243;n en el cuerpo de una artista visual y acad&#233;mica &#8212;que gu&#237;a a sus estudiantes a pensar cr&#237;ticamente sobre el territorio y la historia de su <em>alma mater</em>, la Universidad de Virginia, la universidad de Jefferson&#8212; y que prepara la mesa para celebrar un fest&#237;n en el que Jefferson es diseccionado y queda listo para ser devorado, no es un espect&#225;culo cualquiera, sino una reivindicaci&#243;n que restaura y ayuda a sanar la historia afroamericana.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episodio 5: Ruinas, tierras y estrellas ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una conversaci&#243;n con Estefania Mu&#241;oz Cabrera]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/episodio-5-ruinas-tierras-y-estrellas</link><guid 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Desde ah&#237; desarrolla arte contempor&#225;neo y arte p&#250;blico, mientras ense&#241;a en la escuela local y participa en el centro cultural de su comunidad.</p><p>Hablamos de c&#243;mo crear desde el territorio puede ser una pr&#225;ctica radical de honestidad y resistencia. Estefan&#237;a conecta, desde su casa en la cima de un cerro, el mundo rural e ind&#237;gena &#8212;atravesado por los traumas de la poscolonizaci&#243;n&#8212; con los discursos del arte contempor&#225;neo latinoamericano.</p><p>En nuestra conversaci&#243;n, exploramos la nobleza de los materiales, la importancia de trabajar sin pretensiones y la potencia que emerge cuando la vida cotidiana se entrelaza con la creaci&#243;n art&#237;stica. Tambi&#233;n recordamos el proyecto<a href="http://www.almarayen.com/galaxiaterritorio"> </a><em><a href="http://www.almarayen.com/galaxiaterritorio">Galaxia/Territorio</a></em>, una experiencia que nos permiti&#243; pensar juntas en la relaci&#243;n entre arte, memoria y territorio.</p><p>Los invito a escuchar este episodio y sumarse a nuestra red de mujeres artistas, compartiendo y difundiendo estas conversaciones que buscan abrir espacio y visibilidad.</p><h1><strong>&#127911; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mN8TpcJ9zzKWXnbrCQXr0?si=avWhuI0CR1KElzH6CPV5Kg">Esc&#250;chalo en Spotify</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/136ndjq5duY">Youtube </a>o en <a href="http://www.lapropianetwork.wix.com/">www.lapropianetwork.wix.com</a></strong></h1><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>In the fifth episode of La Propia Network, we talk with <strong><a href="https://estefaniamunoz.com/en/home/">Estefan&#237;a Mu&#241;oz Cabrera</a></strong>, an artist from Illapel, in north-central Chile. From there, she develops contemporary and public art while also teaching at the local school and taking part in her community&#8217;s cultural center.</p><p>We discuss how creating from the territory can become a radical practice of honesty and resistance. From her home on a hilltop, Estefan&#237;a connects the rural and Indigenous world&#8212;marked not by folklore but by the traumas of post-colonization&#8212;with the discourses of contemporary Latin American art.</p><p>In our conversation, we explore the nobility of materials, the importance of working without pretension, and the strength that emerges when everyday life intertwines with artistic creation. We also revisit the project <em><a href="http://www.almarayen.com/galaxiaterritorio">Galaxia/Territorio</a></em>, a powerful experience that allowed us to think together about the relationship between art, memory, and territory.</p><p>I invite you to listen to this episode and join our network of women artists by sharing and amplifying these conversations that aim to open space and visibility.</p><h3><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HVMhTObcOnH33x2jIKzTNMefU52xMmse/view?usp=sharing">Lee la transcripci&#243;n de la entrevista aca</a></strong></h3><h3><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGWqaafj99VxG9JCu8OAqe3-aVNUAFg7/view?usp=sharing">Read the transcription here</a></strong></h3><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>El desierto, la ruina y la nobleza de lo honesto</strong></h3><p>(English after the pictures)</p><p>Debo confesar que son pocas las artistas y personas vinculadas a la cultura en Chile con las que a&#250;n mantengo contacto. En general, mi &#233;poca viviendo y trabajando all&#225; estuvo muy marcada por la construcci&#243;n de una red de contactos meramente operativos: relaciones que exist&#237;an porque, en alg&#250;n grado, pod&#237;an ser &#250;tiles. Esto no se daba de manera expl&#237;cita, sino maquillado bajo la apariencia de amistad. Un terreno bastante confuso, que ahora, con el tiempo y la distancia, veo con mayor claridad. Aquellas personas que sent&#237; que me defraudaron, en realidad no lo hicieron, porque yo nunca fui su amiga. Era imposible, si desde un inicio yo misma las conceb&#237;a como &#8220;assets&#8221; para mis proyectos. Siendo honesta, no me sorprende que, en el momento en que dej&#233; de serles &#250;til, simplemente dejaron de hablarme.</p><p>Estefan&#237;a Mu&#241;oz Cabrera es una excepci&#243;n a todo esto, y no porque yo haya comenzado con ella una relaci&#243;n desinteresada. Al contrario, la busqu&#233; porque quer&#237;a tenerla en un proyecto. Sin embargo, ella pertenece a esa minor&#237;a de seres humanos que, desde la honestidad m&#225;s pura, no te miran como un puente o una oportunidad para llegar a algo. Gracias a esa cualidad, sigue escribi&#233;ndome pese al tiempo y la distancia. Me alegra poder mantener comunicaci&#243;n con ella ahora que yo tambi&#233;n me esfuerzo por ser m&#225;s honesta en mis relaciones.</p><p>Menciono todo esto porque, como le dije en nuestra conversaci&#243;n, algo que me encanta de su trabajo es la honestidad transparente de su obra. La nobleza del material con el que trabaja es, en el fondo, ella misma poni&#233;ndose ah&#237;, sin disfraces.</p><p>Yo vengo de la ciudad, de una ciudad grande, ruidosa, violenta y, en general, bastante pobre y fea, como tantas en el llamado tercer mundo. Cuando imagino mi &#8220;lugar feliz&#8221; nunca son los territorios &#225;ridos y des&#233;rticos del norte de Chile, con su polvareda que a veces parece un paisaje lunar. Sin embargo, a trav&#233;s de la obra de Estefan&#237;a logro conectar con la belleza que habita all&#237;: la ruina, el adobe, esa po&#233;tica de la muerte y de lo que est&#225; a punto de desaparecer, de ser tragado por la nada del desierto. Desde ah&#237; puedo entrar con facilidad a los esp&#237;ritus que lo habitan y dejarme fascinar por la potencia de esos paisajes de lo marginal.</p><p>De verdad me gustar&#237;a que su trabajo tuviera m&#225;s visibilidad y que pudiera llevar sus proyectos e instalaciones a otros espacios del mundo. Que alguien publicara su libro <em>El miedo a ser devorada</em> y que, por una vez, el sistema del arte tambi&#233;n pudiera ser tambi&#233;n honesto y reconocerla en el lugar que realmente merece.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cae343b6-5769-41b8-8e7b-40b50cd66ee5_481x661.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7097b477-c9be-4564-ac79-e0569042358a_1241x826.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ae9080da-9d25-4ba1-869b-e4b296e1d575_555x846.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/06a5ec4c-4b11-40db-9c99-e0d6bb85009b_1485x830.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Estefania Munoz Cabrera&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d55aa877-dac1-49b9-8517-a53fbcb7e634_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h3>The Desert, Ruin, and the Nobility of Honesty</h3><p>I must confess that there are few artists and people linked to culture in Chile with whom I still maintain contact. In general, my time living and working there was very much marked by the construction of a network of purely operational contacts: relationships that existed because, to some degree, they could be useful. This wasn't explicit, but rather disguised under the guise of friendship. A rather confusing terrain that now, with time and distance, I see with greater clarity. Those people who I felt disappointed me, didn't really, because I was never their friend. It was impossible, if from the beginning I conceived of them as "assets" for my projects. To be honest, it doesn't surprise me that, the moment I stopped being useful to them, they simply stopped talking to me.</p><p>Estefan&#237;a Mu&#241;oz Cabrera is an exception to all of this, and not because I started a selfless relationship with her. On the contrary, I sought her out because I wanted her in a project. However, she belongs to that minority of human beings who, from the purest honesty, don't see you as a bridge or an opportunity to get somewhere. Thanks to that quality, she continues to write to me despite the time and distance. I'm glad to be able to maintain communication with her now that I too am striving to be more honest in my relationships.</p><p>I mention all this because, as I said to her in our conversation, something I love about her work is the transparent honesty of her art. The nobility of the material she works with is, at its core, herself putting herself out there, without disguises.</p><p>I come from the city, a big, noisy, violent, and generally quite poor and ugly city, like so many in the so-called third world. When I imagine my "happy place," it's never the arid and desert territories of northern Chile, with their dust that sometimes looks like a lunar landscape. However, through Estefan&#237;a's work, I manage to connect with the beauty that dwells there: the ruin, the adobe, that poetics of death and of what is about to disappear, to be swallowed by the nothingness of the desert. From there, I can easily enter the spirits that inhabit it and let myself be fascinated by the power of those landscapes of the marginal.</p><p>I would really like her work to have more visibility and for her to be able to take her projects and installations to other spaces in the world. For someone to publish her book *El miedo a ser devorada* (The Fear of Being Devoured) and that, for once, the art system could also be honest and recognize her in the place she really deserves.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Compartir La Propia Network&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Compartir La Propia Network</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interrupción]]></title><description><![CDATA[English after the pictures]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/interrupcion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/interrupcion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:22:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MFQW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F56a2a655-071f-48c3-9ea2-4292a58ae53a_1294x2000.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seg&#250;n el an&#225;lisis astrol&#243;gico para este mes de septiembre de 2025, hay que aprender a agradecer y no quejarse. O algo as&#237; entend&#237;. O, m&#225;s bien, ser capaz de trascender estas situaciones que se nos presentan como obst&#225;culos.</p><p>La constante interrupci&#243;n de mis actividades creativas &#8212;de todas, en verdad, pero me enfocar&#233; en las creativas&#8212; es una de esas situaciones que no puedo trascender con una sonrisa y de las que siento, en mi yo profundo, una resistencia a aceptarlas y, por supuesto, rabia.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Pas&#233; de una rutina en la que b&#225;sicamente me sentaba a escribir, caf&#233; a un lado, cigarrillo en el otro, entre 4 y 6 horas continuas, con solo intermedios para ir al ba&#241;o, a andar rob&#225;ndole minutos al d&#237;a para garabatear notas por aqu&#237; y por all&#225;.</p><p>Yo no soy una persona neurodivergente ni tengo el poder del multitasking. Mi procesador es un 486 que necesita ir por orden, paso a paso, hilando ideas. De hecho, necesito hacer ese trabajo de remontarme hasta cu&#225;l fue primero, el huevo o la gallina, para empezar cualquier proyecto que me proponga. Pero la vida, o, como nos decimos con mi pareja, los obst&#225;culos de la vida&#8230;</p><p>Hay una alarma en los ni&#241;os que les suena cada vez que uno est&#225; entrando en estado de concentraci&#243;n. Ah&#237; aparecen con sus mil y una necesidades. Tambi&#233;n aparecen almuerzos y cenas que planear, comprar, preparar y ordenar. Aparecen calcetines regados por todos lados, aparece una carga eterna de ropa sucia y migas debajo de los sillones. Aparecen polvo, retretes sucios, mochilas con tareas, pasta dental en las esquinas del lavamanos. Aparecen cosquillas y carreras de obst&#225;culos, paseos al parque, clases de piano, pel&#237;culas de Pixar, libros de Pete el gato.</p><p>Entonces, la flexibilidad del cerebro &#8212;la neuroplasticidad, que le dicen&#8212; se ve forzada al m&#225;ximo. Yo s&#233; que en esto no estoy sola. S&#233; que somos muchas las que tenemos libretitas con anotaciones que incluyen dibujos infantiles entre medio. O con un archivo infinito de notas de voz en el celular, o fotos tomadas a la carrera para recordarnos algo.</p><p>Y cuando damos cuenta de esta situaci&#243;n al mundo, se nos habla del &#8220;cuarto propio&#8221; de Virginia Woolf, o de su respuesta feminista latinoamericana, de Gabriela Wiener o Cristina Rivera Garza (y muchas otras), en la que el cuarto es comunitario y est&#225; abierto a lo dom&#233;stico. Hasta el momento, no me ha quedado otra opci&#243;n m&#225;s que meter todo lo relacionado con la crianza y la casa directamente en mi trabajo. Porque no me queda de otras. Entonces bienvenidos los discursos que lo validan. Pero tambi&#233;n, miro con envidia los trabajos y las vidas de las artistas sin hijos. Y s&#237;, ya s&#233; que Instagram solo muestra lo lindo, pero se ve hermoso tambi&#233;n.</p><p>Entonces, a estas alturas del partido, creo que toca encontrar un balance que siempre es din&#225;mico. Es decir, un balance que es inestable y que se desequilibria r&#225;pido. Usar los recursos que tengo para aparentar un cuarto propio (tecnicamente no es propio, es robado de mi trabajo remunerado principal) y usar la experiencia de la interrupci&#243;n constante como fuente de inspiraci&#243;n, est&#233;tica de creaci&#243;n y contenido. Porque s&#237;, si no fuera por los obst&#225;culos de la vida, yo a&#250;n seguir&#237;a sac&#225;ndole fotos a mis pies, como lo hac&#237;a a los 20.</p><p>PD: Este texto fue escrito con 8 interrupciones de por medio.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/56a2a655-071f-48c3-9ea2-4292a58ae53a_1294x2000.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7926792d-2bbc-4e34-9197-745f89e23953_800x800.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5c3f7ef3-0160-4c01-b7f9-491da525d498_799x533.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Little kitchen, Nuestra se&#241;ora del Aseo y La artista mejor conocida como&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/08dc54dd-7077-4c0e-afed-994826dde004_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong>Interruption.</strong></p><p>According to the astrological analysis for this month of September 2025, we need to learn to be grateful and not complain. Or that&#8217;s how I understood it. Or, rather, to be able to transcend these situations that present themselves as obstacles.</p><p>The constant interruption of my creative activities&#8212;of all of them, really, but I&#8217;ll focus on the creative ones&#8212;is one of those situations I cannot transcend with a smile, and that I feel, deep within myself, a resistance to accept&#8212;and, of course, anger.</p><p>I went from a routine in which I basically sat down to write, coffee on one side, cigarette on the other, for 4 to 6 straight hours, with only bathroom breaks, to stealing minutes from the day to scribble notes here and there.</p><p>I&#8217;m not a neurodivergent person, nor do I have the power of multitasking. My processor is a 486 that needs to go in order, step by step, threading ideas. In fact, I need to do that work of tracing back to which came first, the chicken or the egg, in order to start any project I set out to do. But life&#8212;or, as my partner and I say to each other, life&#8217;s obstacles&#8230;</p><p>There&#8217;s an alarm in children that goes off every time you enter a state of concentration. That&#8217;s when they appear with their thousand and one needs. Lunches and dinners to plan, shop for, prepare, and clean up also appear. Socks strewn everywhere appear, an endless load of dirty laundry appears, and crumbs under the couches. Dust appears, dirty toilets, backpacks with homework, toothpaste in the corners of the sink. Tickle fights and obstacle courses appear, walks to the park, piano lessons, Pixar movies, Pete the Cat books.</p><p>So the brain&#8217;s flexibility&#8212;neuroplasticity, as they call it&#8212;is pushed to the limit. I know I&#8217;m not alone in this. I know there are many of us who have little notebooks with notes that include children&#8217;s drawings in between. Or an endless archive of voice notes on our phones, or photos snapped on the run to help us remember something.</p><p>And when we tell the world about this situation, we&#8217;re told about Virginia Woolf&#8217;s &#8220;room of one&#8217;s own,&#8221; or its Latin American feminist response, by Gabriela Wiener or Cristina Rivera Garza (and many others), in which the room is communal and open to the domestic. So far, I&#8217;ve had no choice but to fold everything related to caregiving and the household directly into my work. Because I don&#8217;t have any other choice. So, welcome the discourses that validate that. But I also look with envy at the work and lives of artists without children. And yes, I know Instagram only shows the pretty parts, but it looks beautiful too.</p><p>So, at this point in the game, I think it&#8217;s about finding a balance that is always dynamic. That is, a balance that is unstable and gets thrown off quickly. Using the resources I have to approximate a room of my own (technically it isn&#8217;t mine; it&#8217;s stolen from my primary paid job) and using the experience of constant interruption as a source of inspiration, an aesthetic of creation, and content. Because yes, if it weren&#8217;t for life&#8217;s obstacles, I&#8217;d still be taking photos of my feet, like I did at 20.</p><p>P.S. This text was written with 8 interruptions in between.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Episode 4: Habitar Sin Permiso/ Inhabiting Without Permission]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una Conversaci&#243;n con Luisa Fuentes Guaza]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/episode-4-habitar-sin-permiso-inhabiting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/episode-4-habitar-sin-permiso-inhabiting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:37:20 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Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Exploramos conceptos como la <em>transparencia ps&#237;quica</em>, la <em>psicobioafectaci&#243;n</em> y las <em>nuevas luchas reproductivas</em>, que nos permiten pensar el cuerpo, el cuidado y la creaci&#243;n desde un lugar situado y colectivo.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n discutimos el trabajo materno como una pr&#225;ctica cultural que trasciende la biolog&#237;a, articulando cuidados, redes art&#237;sticas y nuevas formas de sostener la vida.</p><h1><strong>&#127911; <a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/la-propia-network/episodes/Habitar-sin-Permiso-Inhabiting-without-Permission-con-Luisa-Fuentes-Guaza-e373i0c">Esc&#250;chalo en Spotify</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/U3FlxVgZGuo">Youtube </a>o en <a href="http://www.lapropianetwork.wix.com/">www.lapropianetwork.wix.com</a></strong></h1><p>In this episode of La Propia Network, we speak with <strong>Luisa Fuentes Guaza</strong> about the intersections of Central American contemporary art, feminist theory, and maternal work.</p><p>We discuss how <em>inhabiting without permission</em> becomes both a creative and resistant practice: occupying spaces &#8212;physical and conceptual&#8212; without waiting for institutional validation, and building what does not yet exist.</p><p>The conversation explores concepts such as <em>psychic transparency</em>, <em>psychobioaffection</em>, and <em>new reproductive struggles</em>, offering ways to rethink the body, care, and creation from a situated and collective perspective.</p><p>We also reflect on maternal work as cultural practice, extending beyond biology to include care, artistic networks, and new forms of sustaining life.</p><h2><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oNAmikemVn9kVWL2boX397ls7RlvSupG/view?usp=sharing">Lee la Transcripcion de la entrevista aca</a></strong></h2><h2><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ShJJC5G4I2hj_iIdQlW4YrM90XPA-0A8/view?usp=sharing">Read the Transcription here</a></strong></h2><p></p><div><hr></div><h2>Aprender a habitar sin permiso</h2><h5>Alma Molina</h5><p>(English version after the pictures)</p><p>Fue Luisa quien nos contact&#243;, a m&#237; y a Ale Ugarte, cuando est&#225;bamos haciendo Maldita Precaria en plena pandemia. Recuerdo que le&#237; sus preguntas y no entend&#237; nada. O m&#225;s bien, pens&#233;: "Es una de esas t&#237;picas acad&#233;micas con un lenguaje s&#250;per complicado para hablar de arte, que se creen superiores a todos". Ale me convenci&#243; de responder porque conoc&#237;a su trabajo sobre las maternidades.</p><p>Despu&#233;s coincidimos en un conversatorio online al que ambas est&#225;bamos invitadas. Me qued&#233; pasmada nuevamente: yo llegu&#233; con mucho enojo, pero ella, con una sonrisa, tomaba toda esa rabia y la transformaba en palabras m&#225;s potentes y precisas. Despu&#233;s me inscrib&#237; en uno de sus talleres. Y luego en otro. Y en otro. Y en otro m&#225;s.</p><p>S&#237;, Luisa escribe de forma compleja, pero despu&#233;s de hablar con ella, su lenguaje se vuelve cada vez m&#225;s accesible. Creo que es porque nos parece nuevo al principio, pero una vez que lo conocemos, empezamos a leerla de corrido. Lo hermoso de este nuevo lenguaje es que no proviene de esa prepotencia acad&#233;mica a la que hab&#237;a estado expuesta &#8212;y a la que le tengo mucha resistencia&#8212;, sino de un lugar de creatividad. Como ella misma dice, surge de su energ&#237;a vital propia que busca nombrar, se&#241;alar y hacer aparecer &#8212;y eventualmente transformar&#8212; todas aquellas experiencias que no son permitidas dentro del statu quo, o como Luisa lo llama: del "macho-l&#237;o-patriarcal".</p><p>En esta entrevista descubr&#237; su trayectoria como curadora e investigadora de arte contempor&#225;neo. Para m&#237;, su conexi&#243;n con el arte se asemeja a la de una partera que te prepara un nido acogedor y te sostiene la mano mientras das a luz. Tambi&#233;n es como una terapeuta art&#237;stica &#8212;o m&#225;s bien, una terapeuta para artistas&#8212;, porque todas las que participamos en sus encuentros salimos removidas, transformadas, con ganas de crear. De hecho, este podcast naci&#243; en uno de sus encuentros. Y estoy segura de que  as&#237; han surgido innumerables proyectos y obras art&#237;sticas.</p><p>Algunos conceptos clave que me han impulsado: el derecho a ser y existir sin ning&#250;n tipo de justificaci&#243;n ligada a la servidumbre; reclamar mis propias energ&#237;as y establecer l&#237;mites cuando no quiero entregarlas a otros; dar espacio y reconocimiento al trauma intergeneracional y a todo aquello que hemos reprimido porque no es lo que se espera de nosotras. Como artista visual, me ha dado la confianza de reclamar mi espacio y crear sin preocuparme por complacer a otros.</p><p>Para este episodio quise presentarla y ofrecer una muestra de todo su conocimiento, con la esperanza de que m&#225;s mujeres puedan escucharla y acercarse a estas ideas emancipatorias. Pueden encontrar mucho mas sobre ella en su web <a href="https://futuridadesmaternales.net/">Futuridades Maternales</a>.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/35f9bbdd-8038-49ca-9543-126cf19f665f_799x533.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5920a232-0d2e-44c8-867b-66646d71b30c_873x600.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a5190e83-8641-4d64-94d5-7a9875da7ac9_905x737.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/afbf861e-b28c-40e2-a316-687c7879978a_800x720.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Futuridades maternales y trabajos nacidos a raiz de los talleres de Luisa/ Luisa's web and my personal works born during her workshops,&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4e597f2-1d2b-496f-9fc2-e74b1cd782fb_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>To Learn to Inhabit without Permission</h2><p>It was Luisa who contacted us, me and Ale Ugarte, when we were doing Maldita Precaria in the middle of the pandemic. I remember reading her questions and not understanding anything. Or rather, I thought: "She's one of those typical academics with super complicated language to talk about art, who think they're better than everyone." Ale convinced me to respond because she knew about her work on motherhoods.</p><p>Later we met at an online panel where we were both invited. I was stunned again: I arrived with so much anger, but she, with a smile, took all that rage and transformed it into more powerful and precise words. Then I signed up for one of her workshops. And then another. And another. And another.</p><p>Yes, Luisa writes in a complex way, but after talking to her, her language becomes more and more accessible. I think it's because it seems new at first, but once we get to know it, we start reading her fluently. The beautiful thing about this new language is that it doesn't come from that academic arrogance I had been exposed to &#8212;and which I strongly resist&#8212; but from a place of creativity. As she herself says, it emerges from one's own vital energy that seeks to name, point out, and make visible &#8212;and eventually transform&#8212; all those experiences that aren't allowed within the status quo, or as Luisa calls it: the "macho-l&#237;o-patriarchal."</p><p>In this interview I discovered her career as a curator and contemporary art researcher. For me, her connection with art resembles that of a midwife who prepares a cozy nest for you and holds your hand while you give birth. She's also like an art therapist &#8212;or rather, a therapist for artists&#8212; because all of us who participate in her gatherings leave stirred up, transformed, wanting to create. In fact, this podcast was born in one of her gatherings. And countless other projects and artistic works have emerged this way.</p><p>Some key concepts that have driven me: the right to be and exist without any justification tied to servitude; reclaiming my own energies and setting boundaries when I don't want to give them to others; giving space and recognition to intergenerational trauma and everything we've repressed because it's not what's expected of us.</p><p>For this episode, I wanted to introduce her and offer a sample of all her knowledge, hoping that more and more women can hear her and approach these emancipatory ideas. You can find more about her work on the web <a href="https://futuridadesmaternales.net/">Futuridades Maternales.</a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caerse del cuadro: maternidad, arte y feminismo en la academia/Falling Out of the Frame: Feminism, Art, and Academia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una conversaci&#243;n con Natalia Igui&#241;iz]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/caerse-del-cuadro-maternidad-arte</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/caerse-del-cuadro-maternidad-arte</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:03:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9f7ef08-44d6-47ca-8bde-d2cd306e33d9_1080x1080.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>En este episodio de <em>La Propia Network</em>, conversamos con <strong>Natalia Igui&#241;iz</strong>, artista visual, feminista y docente universitaria en Per&#250;, sobre las tensiones entre el arte, la academia y la vida cotidiana.</p><p>Natalia ha desarrollado una pr&#225;ctica art&#237;stica atravesada por la maternidad, el cuerpo, el activismo y la historia pol&#237;tica del Per&#250;. Hablamos sobre c&#243;mo "caerse del cuadro" &#8212;como plantea Mierle Laderman Ukeles&#8212; al convertirse en madre dentro de instituciones que no fueron pensadas para nosotras.</p><p>Compartimos experiencias de precariedad, de criar entre la docencia y el arte, y de c&#243;mo construir redes feministas dentro y fuera de la universidad.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n abordamos la invisibilizaci&#243;n hist&#243;rica de las artistas mujeres en Am&#233;rica Latina, el rol de la educaci&#243;n p&#250;blica, la urgencia de revisar bibliograf&#237;as, y la necesidad de descolonizar los planes de estudio.</p><h1>&#127911; <strong><a href="https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/MZUJHeUVyVb">Esc&#250;chalo en Spotify</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/CGJm8dX42ZE?si=sDh1QGw4E_taiHyY">Youtube </a>o en <a href="http://www.lapropianetwork.com">www.lapropianetwork.com</a></strong></h1><p>In this episode of <em>La Propia Network</em>, we speak with <strong>Natalia Igui&#241;iz</strong>, a visual artist, feminist, and university professor in Peru, about the tensions between art, academia, and daily life.</p><p>Natalia&#8217;s practice is deeply intertwined with motherhood, the body, activism, and Peru&#8217;s political history. We talk about what it means to &#8220;fall out of the frame&#8221; &#8212; as Mierle Laderman Ukeles says &#8212; when becoming a mother inside institutions that were never built for us.</p><p>We reflect on precarity, raising children while teaching and creating, and how to weave feminist networks within and beyond academia.</p><p>We also explore the historical erasure of women artists in Latin America, the role of public education, the need to revise curricula, and the urgency of decolonizing how and what we teach.</p><h2><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jEby6PLFu280XWe1rzb26mAoHf_0nUI/view?usp=sharing">Lee la Transcripcion de la entrevista aca</a></h2><h2><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M4UmqnRX_4x4GA4MSemLn7kgQ9uXNQqh/view?usp=sharing">Read the Transcription here</a></h2><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Entre la herida y la esperanza: una nota personal sobre la academia</strong></h2><p><strong>Por Alma Molina</strong></p><p>Debo confesar que conoc&#237; a Natalia hace muy poco. Probablemente por las mismas razones que conversamos en el podcast: la orfandad de las mujeres artistas por esta falta de historiarnos y hacernos circular en los circuitos acad&#233;micos.</p><p>Mi primer inter&#233;s al conversar con ella fue, precisamente, el de abordar la ense&#241;anza de las artes visuales dentro de la universidad, como carrera profesional y todo lo que ello conlleva. Sin duda, la carrera y la obra de Natalia dan para conversar una infinidad de temas, que se nos atravesaron en las casi dos horas de conversaci&#243;n que tuvimos, pero que tuve que reducir por temas de formato.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n &#8212;que, por supuesto, no se trata de m&#237;&#8212; hice grandes esfuerzos para callar y no empezar a proyectar el trauma generacional que tengo con la academia. Pero en este texto quiero transparentarlo.</p><p>Mi padre perteneci&#243; a esa generaci&#243;n de chilenos que, viniendo de contextos de pobreza y/o del campo, tuvo por primera vez acceso a la educaci&#243;n superior gracias a las pol&#237;ticas modernistas de los a&#241;os 50 y 60, en que se fortaleci&#243; la educaci&#243;n p&#250;blica y en que la universidad era gratuita. Una situaci&#243;n similar a la que vivieron mis suegros, que tambi&#233;n pudieron obtener un t&#237;tulo profesional y mejorar sus condiciones econ&#243;micas considerablemente gracias a esta posibilidad de estudiar gratis.</p><p>Sin embargo, mi padre, que eligi&#243; estudiar para ser profesor de historia y geograf&#237;a, dentro de su experiencia en el Pedag&#243;gico de la Universidad de Chile, en alg&#250;n momento se sinti&#243; motivado y embelesado por este espacio de conocimiento y quiso seguir con sus estudios para convertirse en investigador y entrar con una maestr&#237;a a la Academia. Pero vino el Golpe de Estado de 1973: la universidad fue tomada por los militares, muchos profesores y estudiantes fueron asesinados, torturados y desaparecidos, y mi padre, que sobrevivi&#243; a esto, se qued&#243; sin su oportunidad de entrar a este espacio de hombres &#8212;hoy viejos&#8212; cuidadores de este espacio de conocimiento y, como ya sabemos por otros acad&#233;micos, de poder.</p><p>Sigui&#243; su carrera como profesor de historia y geograf&#237;a en una escuela de una poblaci&#243;n muy pobre en Puente Alto, donde viv&#237; toda la mitad de mi existencia. Junto con el amor por la historia y la revoluci&#243;n &#8212;herencias que tomo con cari&#241;o&#8212;, mi padre, sin querer queriendo, nos pas&#243; tambi&#233;n esta herida de no poder seguir ese camino que tanto anhelaba. Debo acotar que, por un lado, mi padre ama ense&#241;ar y es un excelente profesor, pero tambi&#233;n le toc&#243; ver c&#243;mo sus compa&#241;eros sobrevivientes se fueron al exilio, donde pudieron terminar sus maestr&#237;as y doctorados, para retornar en los a&#241;os 90 a ocupar puestos importantes en las universidades.</p><p>Sobre todo con mi hermano mayor, crecimos con esa espinita de que hab&#237;a que llegar a la academia de alguna forma. Ese era el lugar de validaci&#243;n y revancha para mi padre. Y mientras que yo, en mi coraz&#243;n, siempre quise ser cosas muy de piscis &#8212;bailarina, cineasta, escritora&#8212;, termin&#233; metida en una carrera totalmente acad&#233;mica como lo es Teor&#237;a e Historia del Arte. Ojo, no culpo a mi padre: &#233;l jam&#225;s me lo sugiri&#243;, pero son esas decisiones que uno toma por falta de terapia.</p><p>Y lo intent&#233;. Sol&#237;a escribir ensayos que parec&#237;an libros cuando el profesor solo ped&#237;a una tarea simple. Fui la <em>teacher&#8217;s pet</em> de mis acad&#233;micas (mujeres) favoritas. Invent&#233; una revista para los estudiantes, hice muchas ayudant&#237;as, estuve en el centro de alumnos, finalmente hice una pasant&#237;a en Francia. Cuando volv&#237;, nadie se acordaba de m&#237; y no hubo ni atisbos de proponerme seguir con una maestr&#237;a o continuar tomando ayudant&#237;as. A otras compa&#241;eras muy inteligentes y hechas para la academia vi que les pas&#243; lo mismo. Al parecer, nada pod&#237;a borrar el hecho de que &#233;ramos mujeres en un terreno construido y hecho por hombres.</p><p>Entonces, ya se pueden imaginar: la suma de todo esto hizo que yo, de plano, detestara y odiara profundamente la academia y su mundillo de viejos y viejas rancias, que repiten el mismo discurso una y otra vez. Eso fue hace 20 y tantos a&#241;os atr&#225;s, y todav&#237;a siento ese asquillo en la boca cuando pienso en la academia. Sin embargo &#8212;volviendo a Natalia&#8212;, al parecer hay esperanza en el horizonte.</p><p>La entrada a la pol&#237;tica social del feminismo ha hecho que, como nos relata Natalia, el espacio de la academia se vaya abriendo no solo a la participaci&#243;n de mujeres dentro de ella, sino tambi&#233;n a nuevas pr&#225;cticas y discursos, maneras de ser y pensar que antes estaban vetadas.</p><p>Y s&#237;, ha sido lento y les ha tomado mucho trabajo hacerlo, pero tambi&#233;n celebremos que ahora, al menos, a las nuevas generaciones que estudian arte les ense&#241;en que las mujeres existimos no solo como musas o modelos en las pinturas, y que, adem&#225;s, tambi&#233;n pueden ser madres y seguir ense&#241;ando.</p><p>Mientras la academia siga siendo el espacio de validaci&#243;n del conocimiento por excelencia (aunque personalmente, yo preferir&#237;a que desapareciera y pudi&#233;ramos inventar otra cosa), es fundamental apoyar y empujar a las mujeres y disidencias que est&#225;n intentando instalar, desde dentro, experiencias y saberes que hist&#243;ricamente han venido de fuera. Porque solo as&#237;, tal vez, podamos abrir grietas reales en esas estructuras que tantas veces nos han excluido.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8ea77c2d-79f9-4216-aa1c-fd67d19f73d2_600x828.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c5879fa-8cd1-44f5-ac3d-a406bf5d0fa1_1920x1920.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a010bc4-8fb0-4977-873c-c1797786331e_900x850.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fd30fe4f-667b-4d30-9713-fa5654d93af9_1024x1024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d3a6be2a-1da0-4522-a9d0-d43f1b42382e_580x580.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Obras de Natalia Igui&#241;ez&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/64b76052-bd5d-4496-b0f9-9220976d3c13_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2><strong>Between the Wound and the Hope: A Personal Note on Academia</strong></h2><p><strong>By Alma Molina</strong></p><p>I met Natalia only recently&#8212;probably for the same reasons we discuss in this podcast episode: the orphanhood of women artists, a result of how our histories are rarely written or included in academic spaces.</p><p>What first drew me to talk with her was a desire to explore the teaching of visual arts at the university level&#8212;what it means to pursue it as a career and everything that entails. Of course, Natalia&#8217;s trajectory and body of work could open up endless topics, many of which emerged over our nearly two-hour conversation. But for the sake of format, I had to narrow it down.</p><p>This conversation, which is not about me, still stirred something personal. I made a big effort to stay quiet and not project my own generational trauma with academia&#8212;but here, in this text, I want to share it.</p><p>My father was part of a generation of Chileans who, coming from poverty or rural backgrounds, accessed higher education for the first time thanks to the modernizing policies of the 1950s and &#8217;60s. Public education was strengthened, and university was free. My in-laws had a similar experience. They earned professional degrees and greatly improved their economic conditions thanks to this access.</p><p>My father studied to become a history and geography teacher, and during his time at the University of Chile&#8217;s Pedag&#243;gico, he dreamed of continuing his studies&#8212;of becoming a researcher, getting a master&#8217;s, and entering academia. But then came the 1973 military coup: the university was occupied by the military, professors and students were killed, tortured, disappeared. My father survived&#8212;but lost that opportunity. Academia became a guarded space of power, mostly for old men.</p><p>He went on to teach in a poor neighborhood school in Puente Alto, where I spent half my life. Alongside his love for history and revolution&#8212;legacies I cherish&#8212;my father, perhaps without realizing it, passed down the wound of the path he couldn&#8217;t take. He is an excellent teacher, but he also watched his surviving peers go into exile, finish their graduate degrees, and return in the &#8217;90s to occupy key academic posts.</p><p>My brother and I grew up with a quiet belief: somehow, we had to &#8220;make it&#8221; in academia. It was the place of validation, of redemption. And while I always dreamed of being something very <em>Pisces</em>&#8212;a dancer, filmmaker, writer&#8212;I ended up in Art Theory and History, an academic path. I don&#8217;t blame my father&#8212;he never pushed me&#8212;but it was one of those decisions shaped by a lack of therapy.</p><p>And I really tried. I wrote long essays when the professor asked for something simple. I was the teacher&#8217;s pet of my favorite (female) academics. I launched a student magazine, took on teaching assistantships, joined the student council, and eventually did an internship in France. When I returned, no one remembered me. No one suggested continuing with a master&#8217;s or staying in academia. I saw the same thing happen to brilliant women around me. It didn&#8217;t matter how smart or dedicated we were&#8212;the space had been built by and for men.</p><p>So yes, I ended up detesting academia: its stale figures, its repeated discourses. That was over 20 years ago, and I still feel that bitter taste when I think about it.</p><p>But with Natalia&#8230; something shifted. It feels like there&#8217;s hope.</p><p>As she tells us, feminism&#8217;s social and political influence has slowly opened cracks in the university&#8212;not just allowing more women in, but also welcoming new ways of thinking and being that were once excluded.</p><p>And yes, it&#8217;s been slow, and hard-earned. But let&#8217;s also celebrate that new generations of art students are finally being taught that women exist&#8212;not only as muses or models in paintings&#8212;but also as artists, as mothers, as educators.</p><p>As long as academia remains the ultimate space for validating knowledge (and honestly, I&#8217;d rather see us invent something new), it&#8217;s essential that we support the women and dissidents working from within&#8212;bringing in experiences and ways of knowing that have long been kept outside.<br>Because only then can we open real cracks in those structures that have too often shut us out.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las ventajas de ser una mujer artista/ The Advantages of being a Women Artist ]]></title><description><![CDATA[with Marcela Villanueva]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/las-ventajas-de-ser-una-mujer-artista</link><guid 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de ser una mujer artista&#8221;. Con su amplia experiencia trabajando con mujeres artistas, nos puede dar un buen panorama. Sin embargo, la conservacioin tambien tomo otros derroteros, sobre todo con respecto a la historia de su organizacion Karne Kunst y la escena cultural de Berlin.</p><p>Personalmente, fue tambien una oportunidad para agradecer su trabajo generando espacios de conexion y exhibicion para mujeres artistas. Si yo no hubiera dado con ella, otro gallo me cantaria en este momento, y estoy segura que tambien ha sido asi para muchas otras personas que se han topado con ella en la vida.</p><blockquote><p>In this episode, I speak with Marcela Villanueva&#8212;cultural manager, curator, mother, and feminist&#8212;about the Guerrilla Girls&#8217; iconic 1988 text <em>"The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist."</em> Drawing from her rich experience supporting women artists, Marcela shares powerful insights into feminist art practice, while also reflecting on the origins of her project Karne Kunst and the cultural landscape of Berlin. This conversation is also a personal tribute to her work building spaces of connection and visibility&#8212;work that has impacted not only my own journey, but that of many others.</p></blockquote><p>Si quieres leer mas sobre Marcela y tener acceso a la transcripci&#243;n en ingl&#233;s y espa&#241;ol de la entrevista, te invito a subscribirte a La Propia Network.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p>If you&#8217;d like to read more about Marcela and access the English and Spanish transcripts of the interview, we invite you to subscribe to <em>La Propia Network</em>.</p><p>La Propia Network es un espacio de conversaci&#243;n con mujeres artistas que est&#225;n creando y conectando. Desde una mirada latinoamericana y feminista, tejemos redes que cruzan geograf&#237;as, cuerpos y luchas.</p><blockquote><p><strong>La Propia Network</strong> is a space for conversation with women artists who are creating and connecting. From a Latin American and feminist perspective, we weave networks that cross geographies, bodies, and struggles.</p></blockquote><p>&#128227; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SUWb2F5TLFZDwf1gSi5fx?si=Y949KZe4QWqAtdZPFiYvUQ">Esc&#250;chalo ya en Spotify, Substack o donde escuches tus podcasts favoritos.</a></p><p>#LaPropiaRed #GlendaRosero #PodcastFeminista #MujeresArtistas #ArteYLucha #TrabajoDom&#233;stico #ArteLatinoamericano #RedesDeCuidado</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NI_Vh3OWKY6F8AaKk2JxT_hjDuwAhbET/view?usp=drive_link&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Lee la entrevista completa aqui&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NI_Vh3OWKY6F8AaKk2JxT_hjDuwAhbET/view?usp=drive_link"><span>Lee la entrevista completa aqui</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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Para quienes no lo saben, este es el t&#237;tulo de un cartel que el colectivo de artistas an&#243;nimas <em><a href="https://www.guerrillagirls.com/">Guerrilla Girls</a></em> lanz&#243; en 1988 como parte de su denuncia a la falta de representaci&#243;n de mujeres y minor&#237;as en las colecciones de los grandes museos.</p><p>Algunas de las ventajas que listan son:</p><ul><li><p><em>Working without the pressure of success</em> / Trabajar sin la presi&#243;n del &#233;xito<br></p></li><li><p><em>Not having to be in shows with men</em> / No tener que exponer junto a hombres<br></p></li><li><p><em>Having an escape from the art world in your 4 freelance jobs</em> / Escapar del mundo del arte con tus 4 trabajos independientes<br></p></li><li><p><em>Knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty</em> / Saber que tu carrera quiz&#225;s despegue despu&#233;s de los 80<br></p></li><li><p><em>Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others</em> / Ver tus ideas realizadas por otros<br></p></li><li><p><em>Having the opportunity to choose between a career and motherhood</em> / Tener la oportunidad de elegir entre tu carrera y la maternidad<br></p></li></ul><p>Casi 40 a&#241;os despu&#233;s, vale la pena preguntarse si lo que las Guerrilla Girls expon&#237;an sigue vigente, o si el estado de las cosas ha ido transform&#225;ndose. Pens&#233; en Marcela Villanueva para esta conversaci&#243;n, ya que ella, como gestora y curadora, tiene una visi&#243;n m&#225;s global de este panorama y podr&#237;a darnos mejor cuenta de ello.</p><p>Sin embargo, como suele pasar con este tipo de conversaciones, tambi&#233;n nos adentramos en los detalles de su proyecto <em><a href="https://www.karnekunst.com/">Karne Kunst</a></em><a href="https://www.karnekunst.com/"> </a>y de su experiencia espec&#237;fica viviendo y haciendo gesti&#243;n cultural en Berl&#237;n.</p><p>Por muchos a&#241;os me dediqu&#233; a la gesti&#243;n y mediaci&#243;n cultural en Chile, y cuando encontr&#233; a Marcela en plena pandemia, esa era a&#250;n mi profesi&#243;n. Al conocer su historia, ver la manera en que ejecutaba su trabajo y c&#243;mo hab&#237;a logrado levantar y sostener una organizaci&#243;n cultural como lo es <em>Karne Kunst</em>, sent&#237; total admiraci&#243;n y ese deseo de querer ser como ella cuando grande. Y si bien a&#250;n me quedan por ah&#237; esas ganas de hacer proyectos y seguir sus pasos, fue precisamente Marcela quien facilit&#243; mi tr&#225;nsito hacia esa palabra que todav&#237;a siento que me queda grande: artista visual.</p><p>Pero de eso se trata buena parte del trabajo de Marcela: posibilitar y abrir espacios para la creaci&#243;n, para que sucedan cosas nuevas. Una de las claves para que esto ocurra es esa pasi&#243;n y amor que ella siente por las artes. Como ella misma nos cuenta, disfruta al m&#225;ximo su trabajo, y eso le permite enfocarse en la producci&#243;n de todo lo necesario para que los eventos ocurran. Para m&#237;, escucharla es siempre un aprendizaje. Por ejemplo, ahora veo que ah&#237; fall&#233; varias veces como gestora, padeciendo m&#225;s que disfrutando.</p><p>Otro punto que personalmente me atrae es Berl&#237;n. En los &#250;ltimos a&#241;os ha sido mi sue&#241;o recurrente &#8212;literal, es lo que sue&#241;o cuando duermo&#8212;: recorrer las calles de esa ciudad buscando una residencia art&#237;stica, un colectivo o una galer&#237;a. Es, en buena parte, por las noticias que recibo todas las semanas de lo que est&#225; pasando all&#225; y de lo que <em>Karne Kunst</em> est&#225; estrenando. Tambi&#233;n por los reportes de latinoamericanos que han encontrado all&#237; una especie de para&#237;so art&#237;stico, donde pueden crear y exponer con menos trabas y con el financiamiento necesario para sus proyectos. Pareciera que por all&#225; es m&#225;s posible, e incluso ventajoso, ser una mujer artista.</p><p>Sin embargo, el dato duro nos devuelve a otra realidad: incluso en Berl&#237;n, no hay algo as&#237; como una paridad entre mujeres y hombres artistas en t&#233;rminos de oportunidades, sobre todo en lo que las Guerrilla Girls apuntaban originalmente: las colecciones de museos y privadas.</p><p>Lo que s&#237; ha ido cambiando, quiz&#225;s, es la amplificaci&#243;n de las estrategias que esos primeros colectivos feministas generaron, y que ahora parecieran ser nuestra norma de trabajo: crear espacios propios y asociarse con otras. En el detalle, ahora pareciera que debemos observar las formas en que estos v&#237;nculos se generan y c&#243;mo nos comunicamos de maneras efectivas y, ojal&#225;, feministas. Pero ese es tema para otro cap&#237;tulo.</p><p>&#191;Cu&#225;les son las ventajas, entonces? En parte, lo que dice Marcela: que podemos transformar nuestra situaci&#243;n en una ventaja si aceptamos nuestra realidad y trabajamos con ella, siendo honestas y generosas. Quiz&#225;s nos quedan a&#250;n algunos a&#241;os m&#225;s para transformar esta frase en una realidad, y no en una iron&#237;a.</p><p>Y mientras tanto, lo que s&#237; tenemos es la certeza de que seguimos tejiendo redes. Redes imperfectas, a veces precarias, pero profundamente necesarias. Porque como dec&#237;a otra artista feminista: solas no podemos, pero juntas s&#237;.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@lapropianetwork/note/p-166085930&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Deja un comentario&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.com/@lapropianetwork/note/p-166085930"><span>Deja un comentario</span></a></p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/070d9ad8-6a28-4fd3-8a52-d4a5c51f670b_1080x1350.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/78a77f8c-dc53-40d1-a4dd-55b5f4483ddc_1600x1299.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f5d525c-e7a1-4f15-ae05-1cb527e4c39c_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6cf3bb3b-ccea-430a-aad8-f5de2eae9175_1080x1080.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2b117167-3a86-433c-bba8-cea39e46e2eb_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><strong>The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist</strong></p><p>Honestly, I would have loved to name this podcast that way, but the phrase is already trademarked. For those who don&#8217;t know, <em>The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist</em> is the title of a poster the anonymous artist collective Guerrilla Girls released in 1988 as part of their protest against the lack of representation of women and minorities in major museum collections.</p><p>Some of the &#8220;advantages&#8221; they list include:</p><ul><li><p><em>Working without the pressure of success<br></em></p></li><li><p><em>Not having to be in shows with men<br></em></p></li><li><p><em>Having an escape from the art world in your 4 freelance jobs<br></em></p></li><li><p><em>Knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty<br></em></p></li><li><p><em>Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others<br></em></p></li><li><p><em>Having the opportunity to choose between a career and motherhood<br></em></p></li></ul><p>Nearly 40 years later, it&#8217;s worth asking whether what the <a href="http://guerrillagirls.com">Guerrilla Girls</a> denounced is still relevant today&#8212;or whether the situation has changed. I thought of Marcela Villanueva for this conversation because, as a cultural manager and curator, she brings a broader perspective to the table and can help us understand this landscape more clearly.</p><p>As often happens in these kinds of conversations, we also dove into the details of her project <em><a href="http://www.karnekunst.com">Karne Kunst</a></em> and her specific experience living and working in Berlin&#8217;s cultural scene.</p><p>For many years, I worked in cultural mediation and project coordination in Chile, and when I found Marcela during the pandemic, that was still my field. Learning about her story, the way she carried out her work, and how she managed to build and sustain a cultural organization like <em>Karne Kunst</em> inspired total admiration&#8212;and made me want to be like her when I grew up. Even though I still carry that desire to follow in her footsteps, it was Marcela who helped me transition toward this identity that still feels big to me: visual artist.</p><p>But that&#8217;s what much of Marcela&#8217;s work is about&#8212;enabling and opening up spaces for creation, so that new things can happen. One of the key ingredients for that is her deep passion and love for the arts. As she shares, she truly enjoys her work, which allows her to focus on everything that&#8217;s needed to bring events to life. Listening to her always teaches me something. I now realize that I failed in that area more than once&#8212;working in management from a place of exhaustion rather than joy.</p><p>Another personal fascination is Berlin. In recent years, it has become a recurring dream&#8212;literally, it&#8217;s what I dream of when I sleep&#8212;where I wander the streets of that city looking for an artist residency, a collective, or a gallery. Much of it is fueled by the constant updates I receive about what <em>Karne Kunst</em> is launching and about Latin Americans who&#8217;ve found a kind of artistic paradise there, where they can create and exhibit with fewer barriers and with real support for their work. It seems like, over there, being a woman artist is more possible&#8212;and perhaps even advantageous.</p><p>But hard data tells a different story. Even in Berlin, parity between male and female artists in terms of opportunities still doesn&#8217;t exist&#8212;especially in the areas the Guerrilla Girls originally focused on: museum and private collections.</p><p>What may have shifted is the amplification of strategies pioneered by those early feminist artist collectives&#8212;strategies that now seem to be the standard: creating our own spaces and joining forces. Today, it seems we must pay attention to how these bonds are formed and how we communicate effectively&#8212;and, hopefully, in feminist ways. But that&#8217;s a topic for another episode.</p><p>So what are the advantages, really? As Marcela suggests, perhaps it&#8217;s about embracing our reality and transforming it into an advantage&#8212;through honesty and generosity. Maybe we still have a few more years to go before that phrase becomes truth and not irony.</p><p>In the meantime, what we do have is the certainty that we&#8217;re continuing to weave networks. Imperfect, sometimes precarious, but deeply necessary. Because as another feminist artist once said: we can't do it alone, but together, we can.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://substack.com/@lapropianetwork/note/p-166085930&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Deja un comentario&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://substack.com/@lapropianetwork/note/p-166085930"><span>Deja un comentario</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure/ Fracaso n1]]></title><description><![CDATA[Notas para una conversaci&#243;n/ Notes for a conversation]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/failure-fracaso-n1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/failure-fracaso-n1</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:32:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7f79fa05-182c-4c32-9762-90b8833024b9_400x267.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(English after pictures)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. Para recibir nuevos posts y apoyar mi trabajo, considera convertirte en un suscriptor de contenido gratis o un suscriptor de pago.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Escribe tu correo electr&#243;nico..." tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Suscribirse"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Cuando comenc&#233; a planear los temas e invitadas para el podcast, mi cabeza insistentemente me pon&#237;a el tema del fracaso. Hablemos sobre ser una artista fracasada, o una artista que fracas&#243;, una artista que va en bajada, o una artista que no despega.</p><p>Todav&#237;a no se me ocurre con qui&#233;n, porque tambi&#233;n es raro decirle a alguien<em><strong> &#8216;oye, hablemos sobre ser una artista fracasada&#8217;</strong></em>&#8230; Asumo que a nadie le gusta esa etiqueta y menos quieren que la relacionen con eso.</p><p>Pero sigue rond&#225;ndome el tema y el sentimiento. Quiz&#225;s porque necesito encontrar a mis pares y llorar un rato. O porque tambi&#233;n necesito validar este espacio de no &#233;xito y de dificultad. Este lugar de ser mala artista, as&#237; como he trabajado el lugar de la mala madre.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg" width="400" height="267" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:267,&quot;width&quot;:400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:31098,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/i/167997721?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EPpL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe230f6a-d525-4796-b826-2ff61550023e_400x267.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When I started planning the topics and guests for the podcast, my mind kept bringing up the subject of failure. Let&#8217;s talk about being a failed artist, or an artist who failed, an artist on the decline, or an artist who just can&#8217;t take off.</p><p>I still haven't figured out who to talk to about it, because it's also weird to say to someone, <em><strong>&#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s talk about being a failed artist&#8221;</strong></em>&#8230; I assume no one likes that label, and even less wants to be associated with it.</p><p>But the topic and the feeling keep haunting me. Maybe because I need to find my people and have a good cry. Or maybe because I need to validate this space of non-success and difficulty. This place of being a bad artist, just like I&#8217;ve worked through the idea of being a bad mother.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>He sido una p&#233;sima artista toda mi vida</strong></em>. Por diferentes causas, pero sobre todo por malas decisiones que me han llevado a renunciar. Creo que<em><strong> la primera mala decisi&#243;n</strong></em> fue haber salido de las clases de ballet cuando ten&#237;a 10 a&#241;os. Despu&#233;s de 5 a&#241;os de pr&#225;ctica me sent&#237;a cansada y estresada, y probablemente asustada por el posible fracaso y dificultades que ve&#237;a en el pr&#243;ximo paso, que era postular al Ballet Municipal de Santiago. Opt&#233; por salirme, y decirme a m&#237; misma que no val&#237;a la pena seguir el sue&#241;o de la bailarina profesional. S&#237;, ten&#237;a 10 a&#241;os, pero en m&#250;ltiples ocasiones a lo largo de mis 41 me he arrepentido de no haber tomado ese camino. Entonces ahora soy una muy buena bailarina de discoteque, la gordita que le pone empe&#241;o en la clase de ballet para adultos, y la rara que puede improvisar pero no seguir una coreo de contempor&#225;neo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1-m8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd53c79ca-1e85-4544-93da-e7a972cb9524_297x399.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1-m8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd53c79ca-1e85-4544-93da-e7a972cb9524_297x399.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em><strong>I&#8217;ve been a terrible artist my whole life</strong></em>. For different reasons, but mostly because of bad decisions that have led me to give up. I think the first bad decision was quitting ballet when I was 10. After five years of practice, I felt tired and stressed, and probably scared of the possible failure and difficulties I saw in the next step, which was auditioning for the Santiago Municipal Ballet. I chose to quit and told myself it wasn&#8217;t worth pursuing the dream of becoming a professional dancer. Yes, I was 10, but many times throughout my 41 years I&#8217;ve regretted not taking that path. So now I&#8217;m a really good dancefloor dancer, the chubby one who puts in the effort in adult ballet class, and the weirdo who can improvise but can&#8217;t follow a contemporary choreography.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Segundo &#8212;y tercer&#8212; momento de fracaso art&#237;stico</strong></em>. No logr&#233; entrar a Artes Visuales en la universidad (no pas&#233; la prueba especial de dibujo), as&#237; que me inscrib&#237; en Teor&#237;a e Historia, para luego cambiarme por dentro. Me cambi&#233;, y dur&#233; un semestre, luego de colapsar por no poder pasar la clase de Dibujo 1. Largas noches haciendo l&#237;neas y tachados, tratando de copiar manzanas y naranjas, y hasta clases particulares no lograron una evaluaci&#243;n positiva de mi profesor a cargo &#8212;un hombre cuyo nombre no recuerdo pero que s&#233; que tambi&#233;n es artista fracasado&#8212;. Me dio un colapso nervioso y tuve que congelar. Volv&#237; con la cola entre las piernas a terminar la licenciatura en Teor&#237;a e Historia, porque al menos s&#233; leer y escribir de corrido.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg" width="400" height="225" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:225,&quot;width&quot;:400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:22946,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/i/167997721?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yvWc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4c1132f-a38f-4c40-bf5a-ff901eef8473_400x225.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">asi sev en mis cuadernos de &#8216;dibujo&#8217;/ that&#8217;s how my draws look like</figcaption></figure></div><p><em><strong>Second&#8212;and third&#8212;moment of artistic failure.</strong></em> I didn&#8217;t get into the visual arts program at university (I failed the special drawing test), so I enrolled in Theory and Art History, planning to switch from the inside (This is not going to have sense for the american readers, but in Chile you sign up for an specific career or major since day 1). I transferred, and lasted one semester before collapsing because I couldn&#8217;t pass Drawing 1. Long nights drawing lines and crosshatches, trying to copy apples and oranges, and even private tutoring didn&#8217;t earn me a positive evaluation from my professor&#8212;a man whose name I can&#8217;t remember but who I&#8217;m sure is also a failed artist. I had a nervous breakdown and had to take time off. I came back with my tail between my legs to finish my degree in Theory and Art History, because at least I can read and write fluently.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Cuarto fracaso art&#237;stico.</strong></em> A pesar de que era una bastante decente fot&#243;grafa, y me iba muy bien en mi clase de cer&#225;mica, me convenc&#237; a m&#237; misma que el tema del dibujo era la prueba definitiva de que no serv&#237;a como artista. Nunca nadie me dijo o me convenci&#243; de lo contrario, as&#237; que renunci&#233; a la idea por muchos a&#241;os. Mi mayor fracaso art&#237;stico es no haber hecho nada art&#237;stico casi por 15 a&#241;os.</p><p>Aqu&#237; es donde quiero presentar a este personaje que me toma much&#237;simo. Me tomaba al final de mis 20 a&#241;os, cuando vi por primera vez la serie inglesa <em><strong>Spaced (1999</strong></em>) &#8212;protagonizada y escrita por Jessica Hynes y Simon Pegg&#8212; y me vuelve a tomar ahora en mis cuarentas. Daisy Steiner es esta escritora que nunca escribe, que le rechazan las pocas columnas que ha hecho y que vive perdida, sobreviviendo, pero sin saber muy bien qu&#233; hacer o para qu&#233; es buena. Adem&#225;s es rid&#237;cula, absurda y trata de ser <em>cool</em>, pero sabe que no lo es. Daisy trata, pero no mucho, no lo suficiente como para poder triunfar. Es que ni siquiera puede competir, y ella lo sabe.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg" width="259" height="194" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/da69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:194,&quot;width&quot;:259,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3605,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/i/167997721?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T6Px!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fda69885a-ac10-46e2-9651-615a100f8dd7_259x194.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em><strong>Fourth artistic failure.</strong></em> Even though I was a pretty decent photographer and did well in my ceramics class, I convinced myself that the drawing issue was definitive proof that I wasn&#8217;t meant to be an artist. No one ever told me or convinced me otherwise, so I gave up on the idea for many years. My biggest artistic failure is that I didn&#8217;t do anything artistic for almost 15 years.</p><p>This is where I want to introduce this character that really speaks to me. She spoke to me in my late twenties when I first watched the British series Spaced (1999)&#8212;created and starred by Jessica Hynes and Simon Pegg&#8212;and she&#8217;s back with me now in my forties. Daisy Steiner is this writer who never writes, who gets her few columns rejected, and who lives lost, surviving, but not really knowing what to do or what she&#8217;s good at. She&#8217;s also ridiculous, absurd, and tries to be cool, but knows she&#8217;s not. Daisy tries, but not much, not enough to actually succeed. She can&#8217;t even compete, and she knows it.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>&#191;Cu&#225;nto hay que esforzarse para ser una buena artista, una triunfadora?</strong></em> &#191;Cu&#225;nta energ&#237;a y foco hay que poner para seguir tus sue&#241;os, cu&#225;nto te tiene que gustar y apasionar tu arte? A veces no soporto esta charla motivacional constante que nos ponen en la cara las redes sociales, de toda esta gente perfecta y que lo logra y que te invita a lograrlo t&#250; tambi&#233;n con este curso en oferta por 50 d&#243;lares. Claramente no basta ser una misma. <em><strong>Ser una misma no es suficiente</strong></em>. Tengo que publicar esto y luego ponerme a difundirlo por redes, porque si no &#191;qu&#233;&#8230;? No es nada. Y entonces la Daisy Steiner que soy se saca sus lentes falsos y se duerme encima de la m&#225;quina de escribir. (Vean la serie, es buen&#237;sima si eres un gen X).</p><p>No voy a terminar esta nota con ninguna reflexi&#243;n positiva. Me voy a tomar el espacio para esta peque&#241;a pataleta. <em><strong>Para ponerla afuera y ofrecerla a cualquiera que quiera sentarse a conversar del fracaso conmigo, y de lo malas artistas que son. En serio, escr&#237;banme.</strong></em></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscribirse&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;es&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Este Substack est&#225; apoyado por los lectores. 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What does it mean to be an artist, a mother, and a worker&#8212;all at the same time?]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/entre-lo-artistico-y-lo-domestico</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/entre-lo-artistico-y-lo-domestico</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:58:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09217c49-0a35-4d73-adb2-54e78e2b9c39_420x300.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NsMv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60e684f5-d834-428a-9232-2d8767dafe2e_1080x1080.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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today.</p></blockquote><p>Glenda comparte su experiencia personal entre el trabajo art&#237;stico, el dom&#233;stico no remunerado y un empleo formal, revelando c&#243;mo estos mundos se entrelazan en su d&#237;a a d&#237;a. Tambi&#233;n hablamos de sus colaboraciones con el Colectivo Maternas, y su proyecto titulado Si hay trabajo!</p><blockquote><p>Glenda shares her personal experience navigating artistic work, unpaid domestic labor, and formal employment, revealing how these worlds intertwine in her daily life. We also discuss her collaborations with the <em>Colectivo Maternas</em> and her project titled <em>S&#237; hay trabajo!</em></p></blockquote><p>Si quieres leer mas sobre Glenda y tener acceso a la transcripci&#243;n en ingl&#233;s y espa&#241;ol de la entrevista, te invito a subscribirte a La Propia Network.</p><blockquote><p>If you&#8217;d like to read more about Glenda and access the English and Spanish transcripts of the interview, we invite you to subscribe to <em>La Propia Network</em>.</p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Suscr&#237;bete ahora&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Suscr&#237;bete ahora</span></a></p><p><em><strong>La Propia Network </strong></em>es un espacio de conversaci&#243;n con mujeres artistas que est&#225;n creando y conectando. Desde una mirada latinoamericana y feminista, tejemos redes que cruzan geograf&#237;as, cuerpos y luchas.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>La Propia Network</strong> is a space for conversation with women artists who are creating and connecting. From a Latin American and feminist perspective, we weave networks that cross geographies, bodies, and struggles.</p></div><p>&#128227; <a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/la-propia-network/episodes/Entre-el-trabajo-artstico-y-el-trabajo-domestico-Between-the-artistic-and-domestic-job-e35b16s">Esc&#250;chalo ya en Spotify, Substack o donde escuches tus podcasts favoritos.</a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/la-propia-network/episodes/Entre-el-trabajo-artstico-y-el-trabajo-domestico-Between-the-artistic-and-domestic-job-e35b16s&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Escuchar en Spotify/Lisent in Spotify&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/la-propia-network/episodes/Entre-el-trabajo-artstico-y-el-trabajo-domestico-Between-the-artistic-and-domestic-job-e35b16s"><span>Escuchar en Spotify/Lisent in Spotify</span></a></p><p>#LaPropiaRed #GlendaRosero #PodcastFeminista #MujeresArtistas #ArteYLucha #TrabajoDom&#233;stico #ArteLatinoamericano #RedesDeCuidado</p><p></p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/93740da3-e308-44de-9548-82164202a8e0_749x935.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/94b514f5-17f1-49d2-8511-a42af88a3576_472x699.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/529ed55b-22f6-4b42-a38f-fe4d58c2928b_600x800.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a5a51a3-205c-4d91-b034-3e27144697c5_360x405.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f1e71f00-fbb2-4ce3-a46c-9e2bc969f0da_600x1370.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b9ce822-fd6b-415d-af2b-c3574dc6e23c_835x758.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e66f2857-fc84-4ba7-8e78-dd95a9647748_543x824.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1828d200-d060-42e8-947c-16a72a2a5a34_590x802.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a9c6290-1a3c-42c7-8960-c8fa44148339_575x822.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Galeria imagenes Glenda Rosero&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/063c9bec-d079-40d6-97d2-5ba29784b783_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><em>(English after the pictures)</em></p><p>A Glenda la conoc&#237; durante nuestra participaci&#243;n en el taller de<a href="https://www.karnekunst.com/maternar-en-cuarentena-exhibicion-virtual/#flipbook-df_1660/3/"> Karne Kunst, </a><em><a href="https://www.karnekunst.com/maternar-en-cuarentena-exhibicion-virtual/#flipbook-df_1660/3/">Maternar en Cuarentena</a></em>. En esa &#233;poca, ella ya estaba bastante avanzada con su <em><a href="https://www.colectivodosguaguas.com/">Colectivo Dos Guaguas</a></em><a href="https://www.colectivodosguaguas.com/"> </a>y en proceso de terminar su libro <em><a href="https://ilia.uartes.edu.ec/blog-f-ilia/2022/07/14/glenda-rosero-y-su-libro-mitologico-domestico-entrevista-blog-f-ilia-1/">Mitol&#243;gico Dom&#233;stico</a></em>. Me llam&#243; la atenci&#243;n la agudeza de sus ilustraciones y la eficacia de sus dibujos.</p><p>Salta a la vista que es una mujer brillante, lo cual es una cualidad que siempre admiro, pero conect&#233; con ella y con su trabajo por la manera en que abraza el lado oscuro, las furias y las frustraciones tanto de la maternidad como del ser mujer en un contexto patriarcal.</p><p>Como ella misma va contando en la entrevista, su primera etapa como artista refleja &#8212;con iron&#237;a y met&#225;foras&#8212; la dualidad en la que nos movemos las madres agotadas: el amor canalizado en los cuidados, y el agobio por la falta de espacios propios.</p><p><a href="https://www.colectivodosguaguas.com/perlas">Las </a><em><a href="https://www.colectivodosguaguas.com/perlas">Perlas</a></em><a href="https://www.colectivodosguaguas.com/perlas"> </a>de sus bit&#225;coras captan esos momentos del cotidiano que nos hacen sentir que ha valido la pena&#8230; o que, al menos, nos sacan una carcajada. Esta interacci&#243;n con sus hijos, y la manera en que los involucra en muchos de sus proyectos, fue tambi&#233;n tema de conversaci&#243;n en otro de nuestros encuentros virtuales. Glenda ha tomado una decisi&#243;n est&#233;tica y pol&#237;tica: involucrar &#8212;o m&#225;s bien transparentar&#8212; la relaci&#243;n cotidiana con su hija y su hijo. Sobre todo cuando ellos son peque&#241;os y la l&#237;nea &#8212;f&#237;sica, psicol&#243;gica&#8212; que los separa de sus madres es voluble, inconsistente&#8230; casi inexistente, en realidad.</p><p>Ah&#237; ya hay un punto de entrada que vale la pena destacar, porque no es algo que veamos muy seguido en el mundo del arte. &#191;Qu&#233; m&#225;s personal y m&#225;s pol&#237;tico que la crianza de los hijos? &#191;En cu&#225;ntos artistas padres vemos a los hijos formar parte del cuerpo de obra, m&#225;s all&#225; de un retrato o una foto para el recuerdo?</p><p>Si bien en esta entrevista no quise centrarme exclusivamente en la maternidad, Glenda Rosero es sin duda una referente en esa materia, y es un hilo que atraviesa todo lo que sigue.<br> Sus trabajos m&#225;s recientes y m&#225;s maduros se abren a investigaciones colectivas, en las que entran otras voces. Y es ah&#237; donde el tema del trabajo aparece como otro eje de acci&#243;n, y como ella misma propone, otra forma de mirar la sociedad: &#191;qu&#233; entendemos por trabajo?, &#191;c&#243;mo lo valoramos?</p><p>Para m&#237;, la primera tentativa es hacer este puente entre el trabajo dom&#233;stico no remunerado y el trabajo art&#237;stico tampoco remunerado. Esta realidad &#8212;sobre todo latinoamericana&#8212; en la que el valor hora del trabajo dom&#233;stico es bajo, pues se considera un trabajo para el cual no se necesita entrenamiento ni certificaci&#243;n, y en la que el valor hora del trabajo art&#237;stico b&#225;sicamente depende de la suerte de insertarse en un mercado al que muy pocos acceden (especialmente mujeres). Entonces aparecen artistas como Glenda, en quienes vemos encarnada esta doble condici&#243;n, en la que yo tambi&#233;n quepo y me siento representada.</p><p>&#191;C&#243;mo hablamos de trabajo quienes habitamos estos espacios no pagos, no reconocidos?</p><p>El proyecto <em><a href="https://glemarosan.wixsite.com/glendaroseroandrade/s%C3%AD-hay-trabajo">S&#237; hay trabajo</a></em> pone de manifiesto esta falta de lenguaje, expone lo invisible y performa un estatus y una legitimidad que, en el mundo real, simplemente no existen.</p><p>Pero tambi&#233;n, Glenda y Cristina hacen el ejercicio de nombrar que detr&#225;s de cada capacidad productiva, hay una base emocional, afectiva, dom&#233;stica que sostiene lo visible. Nos invitan a ver el hogar como un lugar de conocimiento, como un espacio organizativo, como una empresa sin reconocimiento legal, pero con alta complejidad operativa.</p><p>Y eso es lo que a m&#237; me conmueve tanto de este trabajo. No porque idealice la casa &#8212;como bien lo conversamos en la entrevista, el riesgo de romantizar siempre est&#225; latente&#8212;, sino porque lo confrontan con humor, con datos, con est&#233;tica y con furia contenida. Esa furia que no destruye, sino que organiza, investiga, imagina y construye.</p><p>Tal vez por eso necesit&#225;bamos esta conversaci&#243;n. Para recordar que el arte tambi&#233;n puede ser trinchera, y que hay otras formas de hablar de trabajo, otras formas de producir, otras formas de estar en el mundo.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R7qgPAQ4JLGq9P8e2t4X9iaJknzXnTNt/view?usp=sharing&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Descarga Entrevista a Glenda&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R7qgPAQ4JLGq9P8e2t4X9iaJknzXnTNt/view?usp=sharing"><span>Descarga Entrevista a Glenda</span></a></p><h2>&#128218; Lecturas recomendadas</h2><ol><li><p><strong>"Criada" de Stephanie Land</strong><br>Memorias de una madre soltera que trabaja como empleada dom&#233;stica en EE. UU., explorando la precariedad y la lucha por la dignidad.</p></li><li><p><strong>Silvia Federici &#8211; "Salario contra el trabajo dom&#233;stico"</strong><br>Un texto clave del feminismo aut&#243;nomo que plantea la necesidad de remunerar el trabajo dom&#233;stico como una forma de visibilizar su rol en la econom&#237;a capitalista.<br><a href="http://www.debatefeminista.pueg.unam.mx/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/articulos/022_06.pdf">Leer art&#237;culo (PDF)</a></p></li><li><p><strong>"Biosindicalismo desde los territorios dom&#233;sticos"</strong><br>Libro colectivo que recoge las reivindicaciones y metodolog&#237;as organizativas de trabajadoras del hogar y de cuidados en Espa&#241;a.</p></li><li><p><strong>"El segundo sexo" de Simone de Beauvoir</strong><br>Obra fundamental que analiza la opresi&#243;n de las mujeres y la construcci&#243;n social del g&#233;nero.</p></li><li><p><strong>"La m&#237;stica de la feminidad" de Betty Friedan</strong><br>Estudio cr&#237;tico sobre el papel de la mujer en la sociedad estadounidense de los a&#241;os 50 y 60.</p></li><li><p><strong>"El capital en el siglo XXI" de Thomas Piketty</strong><br>An&#225;lisis sobre la concentraci&#243;n de la riqueza y la desigualdad econ&#243;mica en el mundo contempor&#225;neo.</p></li></ol><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edc070ce-06ff-4145-90c4-70f73e264f54_517x741.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d2b50e8-8c3b-4a30-9c3c-cdacb80ebd54_390x390.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b5c9401a-0c8b-474f-bfaa-edd5483fc035_616x822.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d253784e-6074-4070-833e-48781c518835_593x815.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/744f3be9-5ea6-4454-8fd4-5945aa759aad_714x791.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/857a9ac3-a4d6-4b2b-b7b7-121bb15f3a0f_402x402.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5bb18715-09c3-44ee-ac4a-73ffcd78b78b_1044x683.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/730f63c2-1499-497b-b1a3-1842936dde9d_607x880.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1e0f6056-5194-46ed-862f-214d1a45c230_590x888.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30dfc78a-d15b-46aa-9aed-0a4d1847a16b_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TRzDnF9RFVL3zXjHrs_LKJh2t0AwzQIa/view?usp=sharing&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Download full interview&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TRzDnF9RFVL3zXjHrs_LKJh2t0AwzQIa/view?usp=sharing"><span>Download full interview</span></a></p><p>I met Glenda during our participation in the Karne Kunst workshop <em>Maternar en Cuarentena</em> (&#8220;Mothering in Quarantine&#8221;). At the time, she was already well into her work with the collective <em>Dos Guaguas</em> and in the process of finishing her book <em>Mitol&#243;gico Dom&#233;stico</em>. What caught my attention was the sharpness of her illustrations and the effectiveness of her drawings.</p><p>It&#8217;s immediately clear that she is a brilliant woman&#8212;a quality I always admire&#8212;but what made me connect with her and her work was the way she embraces the dark side, the rage and frustration of both motherhood and being a woman in a patriarchal context.</p><p>As she shares in the interview, her early stage as an artist reflects&#8212;through irony and metaphor&#8212;the duality that we exhausted mothers move through: love channeled into caregiving, and the exhaustion caused by the lack of personal space.</p><p>The <em>Perlas</em> (pearls) from her journals capture those everyday moments that make us feel it&#8217;s all been worth it&#8212;or at least make us laugh out loud. This interaction with her children, and the way she involves them in many of her projects, was also part of another of our virtual conversations. Glenda has made an aesthetic and political decision: to involve&#8212;or rather to make transparent&#8212;her daily relationship with her daughter and son. Especially during the early years, when the line&#8212;physical, psychological&#8212;that separates children from their mothers is fluid, inconsistent&#8230; almost nonexistent, really.</p><p>That alone is an important point of entry to highlight, because it&#8217;s not something we often see in the art world. What could be more personal and more political than raising children? In how many male artists do we see their children become part of their body of work&#8212;beyond a portrait or a keepsake photo?</p><p>While in this interview I didn&#8217;t want to focus exclusively on motherhood, Glenda Rosero is undoubtedly a reference in that field, and it is a thread that runs through everything that follows. Her more recent and more mature works open up to collective research, where other voices enter. And that is where the theme of labor appears as another axis of action&#8212;and, as she herself proposes, another way of looking at society: What do we understand as labor? How do we value it?</p><p>For me, the first attempt is to build this bridge between unpaid domestic labor and unpaid artistic labor. This is a reality&#8212;especially in Latin America&#8212;where the hourly value of domestic work is low, as it is considered a task requiring no training or certification, and where the hourly value of artistic work basically depends on the luck of entering a market that is inaccessible to most (especially women). And so we encounter artists like Glenda, in whom this double condition is embodied&#8212;a condition in which I also fit, and in which I feel represented.</p><p>How do we speak of work from within these unpaid, unrecognized spaces?</p><p>The project <em>S&#237; hay trabajo</em> (&#8220;Yes, there is work&#8221;) exposes this lack of language. It reveals the invisible and performs a status and legitimacy that, in the real world, simply do not exist.</p><p>But Glenda and Cristina also do the work of naming what lies behind every productive capacity: an emotional, affective, domestic base that sustains what is visible. They invite us to see the home as a site of knowledge, as an organizational space, as an enterprise with no legal recognition but with high operational complexity.</p><p>And that is what moves me so deeply about this work. Not because it idealizes the home&#8212;as we discussed in the interview, the risk of romanticization is always present&#8212;but because it confronts it with humor, with data, with aesthetics, and with restrained fury. That kind of fury that doesn&#8217;t destroy, but instead organizes, investigates, imagines, and builds.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s why we needed this conversation. To remember that art can also be a trench. That there are other ways to talk about work, other ways to produce, other ways to exist in the world.</p><p>&#128218; <strong>Recommended Readings</strong></p><p><em><strong>Maid</strong></em><strong> by Stephanie Land</strong><br>Memoir of a single mother working as a domestic cleaner in the U.S., exploring precarity and the struggle for dignity.</p><p><strong>Silvia Federici &#8211; </strong><em><strong>Wages Against Housework</strong></em><br>A key text of autonomous feminism that argues for the need to remunerate domestic labor as a way of making its role in the capitalist economy visible.<br><a href="http://www.debatefeminista.pueg.unam.mx/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/articulos/022_06.pdf">Read article (PDF)</a></p><p><em><strong>Bio-unionism from Domestic Territories</strong></em><br>A collective book that compiles the demands and organizing methodologies of domestic and care workers in Spain.</p><p><em><strong>The Second Sex</strong></em><strong> by Simone de Beauvoir</strong><br>A foundational work that analyzes the oppression of women and the social construction of gender.</p><p><em><strong>The Feminine Mystique</strong></em><strong> by Betty Friedan</strong><br>A critical study of the role of women in 1950s&#8211;60s American society.</p><p><em><strong>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</strong></em><strong> by Thomas Piketty</strong><br>An analysis of wealth concentration and economic inequality in the contemporary world.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[De Maldita Precaria a La Propia Network ]]></title><description><![CDATA[&#127897;&#65039; Episodio 0 &#8211; Piloto]]></description><link>https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/de-maldita-precaria-a-la-propia-network</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lapropianetwork.substack.com/p/de-maldita-precaria-a-la-propia-network</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[La Propia Network]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 01:48:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SsXZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff20aee29-53b3-4e92-b7d3-df9d072d6aad_1072x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bienvenidas a <strong>LaPropia Network</strong>.</p><p>En este episodio piloto comparto el trayecto personal y pol&#237;tico que dio origen a este proyecto: desde la experiencia con <em>Maldita Precaria</em> durante la pandemia, hasta la necesidad urgente de reconectar, crear y visibilizar a mujeres artistas en distintos territorios.</p><p>Este podcast se construye como una red de conversaci&#243;n, resistencia y creaci&#243;n.<br>Grabado entre continentes, idiomas y experiencias, quiere ser un espacio &#237;ntimo y colectivo a la vez.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Siento que es importante nombrar esta breve y humilde trayectoria con el formato podcast, pero m&#225;s que eso, con el gesto de generar redes con otras mujeres creadoras.</p><p>Es complejo decidir las propias narrativas, y los tonos de esas narrativas. El texto anterior tej&#237;a la historia de fracaso, de rabia y frustraci&#243;n con la que decid&#237; migrar de mi pa&#237;s de origen. Esa narraci&#243;n la he masticado lo suficiente como para que me salga f&#225;cil y fluida. He tenido tres a&#241;os para roerla y mirarla desde todos los &#225;ngulos. Me la s&#233; bastante bien. Despu&#233;s de terminar de grabarla &#8212;y borrar el texto sin querer queriendo&#8212; sal&#237; a caminar al patio, rodeada por la naturaleza verd&#237;sima y en HD que me rodea, y sent&#237; que esa historia amargosa que me cuento (y que suelo contarle a quien quiera escuchar) me hace sentir una malagradecida. La verdad es que no estoy mal. Estoy aqu&#237;, escribiendo desde mi casa en el bosque, con mis dos hijos sanos, mi pareja que me apoya, y un perro con orejas de felpa.</p><p>Si quiero dar contexto, tengo que partir diciendo: gracias. As&#237;, sin ninguna raz&#243;n aparente. Pero gracias a los fracasos, las buenas y malas decisiones, y a todas las personas con las que me he cruzado y que me han permitido estar ac&#225;, hoy, escribiendo en un computador con internet, disfrutando del aire acondicionado, mientras afuera el viento hace sonar las hojas de los &#225;rboles.</p><p>&#191;Ya se aburrieron con mi gratitud hippie? Tengo 41 a&#241;os y estoy entrando en mi etapa perimenop&#225;usica, lo que me ha llevado a reconectar con una faceta m&#225;s espiritual. Pero tambi&#233;n soy Piscis, lo que significa que, a la larga, no lo puedo evitar. Actualmente vivo en Charlottesville, en el estado de Virginia, Estados Unidos. Vengo de Chile. Y cada vez que digo eso pienso en la canci&#243;n <a href="https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/5NL0SXbEMtWkAVmzjQV8s5?si=ff428a44a11f4460">Cordillera de Alex Anwandter</a>:</p><blockquote><p>"Yo nac&#237; en la cordillera,</p></blockquote><p>Vivo entre mercurio y plata,</p><p>Nado entre promesas falsas,</p><p>Tomo el agua del guanaco</p><p>Que me da carabineros**</p><p>Cada vez que pienso algo."</p><p>(Guanaco es el nombre que le damos en Chile al carro lanzaaguas de las fuerzas especiales).</p><p>(Carabineros: el nombre de la polic&#237;a en Chile, copiado de Italia por alguna raz&#243;n fascista; tambi&#233;n conocidos como pacos).</p><p>Nunca me sent&#237; bien en mi pa&#237;s, y cuando sal&#237; y pude verlo desde afuera, entend&#237; mejor por qu&#233;. Aunque esto no tiene que ver directamente con La Propia Network, inevitablemente marca el tono y el ritmo de lo que digo.</p><p>Quiero contar qu&#233; fue Maldita Precaria y por qu&#233; ahora me propuse hacer este espacio. La verdad es que es muy simple en t&#233;rminos de motivaciones, si quienes escuchan o leen esto vivieron la pandemia del COVID y esa necesidad &#8212;que termin&#243; por saturarnos&#8212; de hablar por Zoom. Nunca he sido muy amiga de las redes sociales, y debo decir que soy de la generaci&#243;n que literalmente las vio nacer. Por lo mismo, s&#233; que son una ilusi&#243;n, sobre todo ahora. Aun as&#237;, eso no quita que se puedan generar conexiones, e incluso amistades, en el espacio virtual.</p><p>El encierro del 2020 me encontr&#243;, resumiendo un poco, as&#237;: mujer, madre de un ni&#241;o de 5 a&#241;os y una beb&#233; de 7 meses, casada con un hombre que trabaja y estudia, un perro y dos gatos. Mi familia de origen estaba a 6 horas en carretera, porque en un acto de locura &#8212;o un salto de fe, si quiero ser m&#225;s optimista&#8212; dej&#233; mi trabajo estable y bien remunerado (en el contexto de la cultura en Chile) como encargada de mediaci&#243;n de un museo de arte contempor&#225;neo en la capital, para irme a vivir a la provincia, a la playa, embarazada y sin ninguna red de apoyo. Totalmente confiada en que mis credenciales y mi experticia me permitir&#237;an conseguir muy r&#225;pido otro trabajo estable y bien remunerado en un museo o instituci&#243;n cultural local.</p><p>Para marzo del 2020, llevaba cinco a&#241;os trabajando de manera independiente y obstinada, inventando proyectos por aqu&#237; y por all&#225;, postulando a fondos con cualquier agrupaci&#243;n o artista que se me apareciera en la regi&#243;n. Escrib&#237;, ejecut&#233;, produje y &#8212;lo peor para m&#237;&#8212; rend&#237; fondos p&#250;blicos en los que te piden hasta la boleta del papel higi&#233;nico. Del trabajo estable nunca tuve se&#241;ales, a pesar de extenuantes lobbies y reuniones con todos los funcionarios p&#250;blicos vinculados con cultura. Para el encierro, ya llevaba un buen rato enfrentada a la precariedad, al estr&#233;s y a la p&#233;rdida de salud mental que conlleva el trabajo en cultura y arte cuando no se tiene ni padres ni marido que te mantenga, ni un apellido de la &#233;lite. Esto, por supuesto, no era algo nuevo para m&#237;: es la historia de vida de la clase media-casi-baja. Pero durante un tiempo hab&#237;a tenido ese m&#237;nimo reconocimiento prometido por la idea de la meritocracia, el cual me hab&#237;a ganado con mucho trabajo y maltrato laboral, como todo el mundo en Chile.</p><p>Ya me puse amarga de nuevo. Es dif&#237;cil contar esta parte de otra forma, aunque cualquier lector u oyente latinoamericano probablemente lo entienda a la perfecci&#243;n. No s&#233; si tanto quienes nacieron en los nortes imperialistas. A veces me cuesta explicarles lo que fue estudiar en la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Chile, campus Las Encinas, en los 2000, a los j&#243;venes con los que me topo ac&#225; en la Universidad de Virginia... Me dan ganas de tener fotos de esa &#233;poca para graficarlo, pero bueno: la palabra que us&#225;bamos entonces era precario, e incluso muchos desarrollaban toda una "est&#233;tica" de la precariedad. No s&#233; si como mecanismo ps&#237;quico para enfrentar el trauma de merecer tan poco, o como una burda manera de hacerse los cool.</p><p>Sea como sea, cuando con <a href="https://senoritaugarte.wordpress.com/">Ale Ugarte</a> &#8212;artista visual chilena y co-creadora de todo esto&#8212; nos pusimos a buscar un nombre para nuestro emprendimiento pand&#233;mico, nos pareci&#243; demasiado obvio usar esa palabra. Lo de Maldita era por ese meme de &#8220;la maldita lisiada&#8221;, que lo hac&#237;a m&#225;s c&#243;mico y catchy. Pero tambi&#233;n, vi&#233;ndolo con algo de distancia, fue como decretarnos una maldici&#243;n, como no pocas de nuestras asociadas nos hicieron ver... Mientras tuvi&#233;ramos ese nombre, &#237;bamos a estar condenadas al fracaso.</p><p>A pesar de todo, logramos sostener una plataforma virtual que promov&#237;a el trabajo de artistas chilenas mujeres &#8212;todas precarias, obviamente&#8212; y en la que hicimos desde rifas navide&#241;as hasta un podcast, el cual produje, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/1sRdyzpOXKxHXOAiks6c1i?si=36469f12630f4fd5">que a&#250;n pueden encontrar en Spotify</a>.</p><p>Personalmente, me daba una agenda y un poco de esperanza estar a cargo de algo as&#237;, un peque&#241;o norte en la vor&#225;gine de mi vida personal en la que se nos ocurri&#243; emigrar. Ya viviendo en Estados Unidos, fue dif&#237;cil seguir con la energ&#237;a, sobre todo por esta visi&#243;n tan amarga y esa distancia cr&#237;tica que empec&#233; a desarrollar con respecto a mis intentos de ser alguien respetada en la escena art&#237;stica chilena.</p><p>Durante mi primer a&#241;o ac&#225; intent&#233; hacer algo con Maldita Precaria. Ten&#237;a la idea de organizar una exposici&#243;n, de mostrar a las maravillosas artistas mujeres que fueron parte de la plataforma, pero desde Chile segu&#237;an existiendo demasiados peros. Empezando por el idioma. Al final me di cuenta de que a la &#250;nica que pod&#237;a exportar era a m&#237; misma. As&#237; que me colgu&#233; la etiqueta de artista visual sin miedo &#8212;total, ac&#225; nadie me conoce&#8212; y comenc&#233; a integrarme poco a poco en la peque&#241;a escena art&#237;stica de mi nueva ciudad. Y debo decir que lo sent&#237; muy f&#225;cil, sin esa monta&#241;a de burocracia y carencia de recursos a la que estaba tan acostumbrada.</p><p>Pero como nada es perfecto, me encontr&#233; hablando sola de feminismo y maternidad. Me encontr&#233; nuevamente buscando grupos en l&#237;nea donde pudiera discutir mis ideas de trabajo o seguir profundizando en los temas que son parte importante de mis procesos creativos. Al menos en mi ciudad, no hay feministas. Y se siente raro, viniendo del pa&#237;s de Las Tesis y de la regi&#243;n de Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui.</p><p>Entonces, en uno de estos grupos, sent&#237; de nuevo las ganas de tener m&#225;s tiempo para hablar largo con las otras mujeres participantes. Y en paralelo, en los chats surgi&#243; nuevamente esta idea de configurar nuestras propias redes de legitimaci&#243;n. De nosotras como artistas, pero tambi&#233;n de nosotras como seres humanos.</p><p>Hasta el momento he omitido algunos pasajes y personajes clave de mi historia, porque quiero que est&#233;n presentes ac&#225;, con sus propios cap&#237;tulos. Pero por ahora solo dar&#233; testimonio de lo potente que es que otra mujer, otra compa&#241;era, te diga que s&#237;, que s&#237; puedes. O que te diga que tienes el derecho absoluto a vivir tu mejor vida. En mi caso, las mujeres han sido siempre quienes me han abierto las puertas materiales, laborales, afectivas y ps&#237;quicas. Y a todas las puedo ver claramente como una red interconectada de poder y conocimiento, que se va pasando de unas a otras.</p><p>La Propia Network ya existe. Ha estado ah&#237;. Y quiz&#225;s t&#250; tambi&#233;n tienes la tuya. 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