Black Box

Art and critical architecture collective whose main focus has been citizen activism in public spaces as an alternative to the neoliberal city. Integrated by the architect of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Diego Peris López, and the visual artist and researcher María José Muñoz, who has a degree in Visual Arts and a degree in Education, professor of visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Master in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from the UCM - UAM and MNCARS. Currently they focus on dissidence as political forms of resistance to build other possible imaginaries. They analyze current contexts from the challenge of creating, approaching and embracing radical discourses, antagonistic to hegemonic cultural impositions. They move from collaborative practices as a response to the needs of the communities, towards the installation of knowledge and spaces for critical thinking, activating new transcultural subjectivities as a decolonization of dominant thinking. They carry out research, production and action processes in both geographical and symbolic territories, using agitprop, counter-advertising and visibilization or communication guerrilla, in critical devices that question aesthetic and political narratives. Projects such as: We do not want lithium because it takes us water. Salar de Llamara, Tarapacá Region (2024) and El Panchón, Extremadura, Spain (2023); Capitalism tears. Instute for (X), Aarhus, Denmark (2023); Con la luz no se juega. Cañada real, Madrid, Spain (2023); Con el barrio no se juega. Intervention in public space in Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain (2023); Jardín de malas hierbas. CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain (2023); Cacharro 2.0 for Museo Situado, Maquinaciones del MNCARS, Madrid, Spain (2023); Migrar es para siempre. 12 Interventions in public space, Madrid, Spain (2022 2023); Black Box. Madrid, Spain (2021-2022-2023); Againts Gentrifiation. Video projected in Madrid, Spain (2019); Arriba los de Abajo. Intervention in the public space of La Perseverancia neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia (2014); Shoot Gentrification. Work in residence in San Francisco, USA (2014); El Barrio es nuestro. Public sculpture in Vallecas, Madrid, Spain (2014); Itineraries of repression, in Fluxus Tour. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain (2012); Gentrificatour. Collective action, Madrid, Spain (2011); Haciendo Malasaña. Intervention in advertising, Madrid, Spain (2010); Letras Cañada real. Cañada real, Madrid, Spain (2010); Antitriball. Collective campaign, Madrid, Spain (2009); Emptyworld and Speculator, in Madrid abierto, Madrid, Spain (2008). On the other hand collective constructions are analyzed from notions of critical architecture working through navigating projects such as: Archive Taz, Luxembourg (2015); Bubble Callan, Ireland (2014); Cinema Usera. Madrid, Spain (2014); Sound system guerrilla. Madrid, Spain (2012); Núcleo cultural La Y Petare. Caracas, Venezuela (2012); El tanque. Quito, Ecuador (2011); Campo de Cebada. Madrid, Spain (2010); Estas es una plaza. Madrid, Spain (2009); Bicielotes. Monterrey, Mexico (2009); Wikitanker Vic. Gerona, Spain (2009); to more contemporary constructions such as: Oasis de Villaverde - IES Villaverde. Madrid, Spain (2022-2023); Inclusive courtyards [in progress] - IES Pedro Salinas. Madrid, Spain (2022 - 2024); 4eres para Parla, Madrid, (2022); El punto y el triángulo - IES Pedro Salinas. Madrid, Spain (2021) Tangram - IES Arcipestre de Hita. Madrid, Spain (2020); Bogada. Istanbul, Turkey (2017). Tandem. Paris, Madrid, France and Spain (2017). These projects have been exhibited in more than 35 exhibitions with various curatorships, both in Spain and internationally. In addition, they have been published in several magazines and interviews, received awards, and held artist residencies.