y que le digo, y que me dice | Charla #2

From Onda MX, we invite you to the talk Bodies in Resistance, the second in the series, y que le digo, y que me dice, Symptoms in Contemporary Artistic Production.

This program of conversations, organized by Josephine Dorr, director of Onda MX, and Sandra Sánchez, editor of the magazine, aims to create a space for dialogue among artists, writers, and other thinkers about the ongoing symptoms that traverse contemporary artistic production in Mexico. Based on recurring themes in the practices and texts published by Onda, we seek to generate an exchange of ideas, sensations, and intuitions within and with the community.

The conversation will take place at La Americana, Mexico City, on Wednesday, October 22, at 7:30 pm.

Participants: Stefanía Acevedo, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor, Octavio Gómez Rivero, and Lucía R. Moderator: Sandra Sánchez

Stefanía Acevedo holds a degree in Philosophy from UNAM and a Master's in Communication and Politics from UAM-Xochimilco. She has a specialization and a Master’s in Psychoanalysis from Dimensión Psicoanalítica. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at UNAM. She has taught various courses on art and philosophy at FFyL, UNAM, and is the author of El hacktivismo y la cuestión de la técnica (2020). She collaborates with the Cooperativa Cráter Invertido and Radio Tropiezo, with whom she participated in Documenta 15 in Germany as part of the translocal network Arts Collaboratory. Since 2017, she has been part of different collectives interested in autonomy, free media, and collaborative work. She also writes for Onda MX.

Helena Chávez Mac Gregor is a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from UNAM. From 2009 to 2013, she was Academic Curator at MUAC, where she developed the Expanded Campus Critical Theory program. She currently teaches in the graduate program in Art History at UNAM. In 2018, she received the “Reconocimiento Universidad Nacional” award for her teaching work in art. Among her recent curatorial projects are: Time Feels Less if We Stay Still. Melanie Smith (MAZ, 2025) and, with Alejandra Labastida, Mothering. Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of Production (MUAC, 2021–2022). Her latest book, The Ribbon and the Bomb: The Art of Frida Kahlo, was published in 2025 by Lumen/Penguin Random House.

Octavio Gómez Rivero has an anarchist and heterodox background. His essays seek to develop a philosophical an-archaeology in fields such as literary studies, the history of technologies, theoretical ethnography, cybernetics, and contemporary art. He currently explores experimental uses and immersive interdependent relationships in Baroque cosmothetics. He produces works as part of the duo BABA and is a member of the art collectives EVA and C.R.N.0.

Lucía R is an artist and researcher whose practice explores the networks of relationships among human, non-human, and more-than-human bodies from a political-affective dimension. She works with materials such as clay, technological waste, and minerals, understood as bodies with agency that become sculptures, installations, or sound pieces to challenge hegemonic binaries. Since 2024, she has been developing Litemia, an artistic research project on lithium as an element that intersects devices, psychopharmaceuticals, bodies, and territories. She continues this project within the PhD in Visual Arts at UNAM and the SOMA study program. She is co-curator of the sound art and listening event Murmuro and a faculty member at Universidad Iberoamericana.

Sandra Sánchez is an artist, curator, writer, and editor. Her work is grounded in the practical possibilities of art, collaboration, and listening to critically challenge the sensitive logics of neoliberalism. She is part of El Cuarto de los Ojos Sucios (a performance space dedicated to mediation, exhibition, and critical reflection on contemporary painting), Máquina Simple (editorial research group), Círculo contra el soundscape (sound research group), and Ambient para leer (public space installations exploring intersections of sound, reading, rest, listening, and contemporary art). She edits the Onda MX magazine and teaches at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

A recording of the talk will be available on our YouTube channel, and a written summary can be consulted on ondamx.art (Magazine section).

Many thanks to La Americana and Félix.

Cover image: work by Octavio Gómez Rivero