Daniela Ortiz lives and works in Urubamba (Perù). Through her work, Daniela Ortiz aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class, and genre are explored to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research deal with the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by European institutions to inflict violence on racialized and migrant communities. She has also developed projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Apart from her artistic practice, she is the mother of a three-year-old, she gives talks, holds workshops, carries out investigations, and participates in discussions on Europe’s migratory control system and its ties to coloniality in various contexts.

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Stalker is a collective of artists and architects, founded in 1995 in Rome. Their practice is based on research, both in the city and beyond, with particular attention to marginal areas and urban voids. Their methods are experimental, based on exploratory, relational, and playful spatial practices, activated by a clear interaction with the investigated environment. These practices are aimed at catalyzing the development of self-organizing evolutionary processes, through the weaving of social and environmental relationships, where they have been lacking due to abandonment or unavailability.