Noemí Domínguez Gaspar is a Mixe-Zapotec woman and feminist anthropologist, she holds degrees from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH) and a Master’s in Women’s Studies from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Xochimilco (UAM-X), and is a doctoral candidate in the Gender Studies Program at UNAM.

She has participated in research, workshops, and teaching on human rights, gender-based violence, racism, cinema, representation, and feminist practices at institutions including UABJO, ENAH, CEIICH-UNAM, INPI, CONAVIM, and DDHPO. Her recent publications include De divas, sandungas e indias in Mujeres en Oaxaca (2022) and La participación de las mujeres a través de la cocina para la producción de agave y mezcal en Albarradas (2020) in Cuadernos del Sur.

Residency 2025

Fernanda Armada is a multidisciplinary photographer and visual artist exploring identity, memory, and the transformation of the image. She was a beneficiary of the Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA Guanajuato Medios Alternativos) 2023–2024 and held her first solo exhibition Miradas Hambrientas: el cuerpo como objeto de consumo in Querétaro, Mexico in 2024. She has participated in over 50 group exhibitions across Mexico and internationally in Bolivia, Chile, Spain, and France. Her work has been published in Violence and Gender in Times of Pandemic (MX), Xin Zai Magazine (Hong Kong), and Same Faces Collective (USA). Fernanda has taken part in multiple performance programs and residencies, including La Ceiba Gráfica (Coatepec), Invocar Presencias (Monterrey), and the Pequeño Festival de Arte Acción. She is currently in the 4th generation of LaBIAR by Lolita Pank and a student of Visual Arts at Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, and has been part of Same Faces Collective since 2020.

Residency 2025

Sonte’nish Myers is a filmmaker with roots in the U.S. and Jamaica, draws inspiration from her origins and the folktales she grew up with. Her work spans drama, sci-fi, and fantasy, centering familiar worlds and characters while exploring cultural memory and preservation through both film and photography.

Her award-winning short Cross My Heart—a Vimeo Staff Pick now streaming on SHOWTIME ANYTIME—garnered her fellowships with Sundance, Tribeca, and Film Independent. Her period sci-fi feature Stampede (The Black List, Sundance Labs) is currently in packaging, alongside new projects including a near-future thriller and a fantasy epic.

A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she now teaches, Sonte’nish has also directed music videos for Grammy Award-winning artists such as Tank and the Bangas and Samara Joy.

Residency 2025

Nahima Quetzali Dávalos-Vázquez is a digital anthropologist and learning designer based in Oaxaca City. For the past six years, she has worked at the intersection of technology, the body, inequality, and creativity through both academic and applied projects.

Her practice focuses on guiding processes that explore technology through concrete, affective, and sensory experiences. She has collaborated with collectives, institutions, and individuals working at the edges of the digital, approaching disconnection not as exclusion but as an opportunity for reinterpretation and meaning-making.

Residency 2025

Mayra Cernas is a transdisciplinary creator whose practice combines textile craft, research, and situated pedagogy. Her work explores visual culture, regional dress, gender, collective memory, and contemporary art and craft from the margins. Trained in sewing from an early age in the Itsmo de Tehuantepec, she developed a deep perspective on textile labor, later integrated into her studies in Fashion Design and Art History. Her ongoing project Cómo hacer un huipil combines historical research, material experimentation, and archive activation in dialogue with inherited practices.

Co-founder of Territorio Expandido, she coordinates Ciclos Transversales, a training program on contemporary artistic practices. She also works with the Taller de Maquila Comunitaria in Santo Domingo Ingenio, Oaxaca, supporting local women in technical and political processes. She was a grantee of Jóvenes Creadores 2021–2022 and selected as Joven Creadora at the 2024 Encuentro Nacional de Arte Indígena y Artesanía Contemporánea.

Residency 2025

Ica Sadagat attends to the body as text, text as material, and material as collective labor and practice. A trained organizer, perpetual editor, and former crisis counselor, Ica started Sadagat School of Motion & Text in 2022 to offer more sites for embodied learning, close listening, and guerrilla poetics. She has taught and performed in plenty spaces; some of her work can be found. Beyond all of this, Ica spars and surfs.

Residency 2025

Shaden Safieddine Tazi is a writer and film director from Morocco and Lebanon. She studied Film and Media Studies at Columbia University and later worked there as a teaching assistant.

In 2023, she directed her debut short film, Everything Will Disappear, shot in Morocco. The film follows a young woman whose grandfather no longer remembers her due to Alzheimer’s and has been screened at the El Gouna Film Festival, the Tangier Film Festival, and the Menart Fair in Paris.

Now based in Paris, Shaden is preparing to shoot her second short, I Tasted Paradise, in January 2025, while developing her first feature — an adaptation of La Poule et Son Cumin by Moroccan author Zineb Mekouar. Her work explores human vulnerability, non-verbal communication, and the passage of time through non-linear storytelling.

Residency 2025

Catherine Anabella Lie is an Indonesian interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher and educator based in Mexico City. Interested in the notion of commoning, Catherine works with scores, videos, texts and their translations to explore alternative histories against the dominant narrative structure. She collaborates with more-than-human ghosts in everyday life: stuffed animals that play with kinship and identity formation, a broken phone that broadcasts the invisible story of global copper mining operations, and sourdough starter as a pedagogical lens for design and ecology.

Residency 2025

Espartaco Martínez is an Actor and creator trained at La Casa del Teatro, with an international career across Japan, Europe, the Americas, and Korea. He explores dance, clown, and butoh as languages of resistance in works such as La Bestia, Inhumano, and The Heart Sutra. Author of Bitácora de Oriente and Dejarse ir, he has collaborated with Romeo Castellucci and Daisuke Yoshimoto.

Residency 2025

Alexis Convento (she/they), queer Filipino-American artist based in Berlin. Working as Ulam, they create performative and edible installations connecting personal storytelling, ancestral memory, and care. Their projects include Kamayan feasts inspired by the Manila–Acapulco route. They are also Head of Production and Planning at LAS Art Foundation..

Residency 2025

Matt Thomas is an architect, artist, and urban designer exploring the systems that shape everyday life. Director of The Paseo Project and founder of Studio Taos, he focuses on the intersections of food, water, and the built environment. He has taught at Columbia, Parsons, the American University of Beirut, and Chongqing University.

Residency 2025

Tania Mata is a dancer from Oaxaca with 17 years of experience in Graham technique, contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial movement. She has performed at Teatro Alcalá, Teatro Degollado, and Foro Larva, and since 2022 has taught contemporary dance and acroyoga at Necia.

Residency 2025

Mario Cruz is a sociologist and visual anthropologist from San Jacinto Chilateca, Oaxaca. His photography, awarded Best Portfolio at FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024, is part of the Contemporary Image Catalog at the Centro de la Imagen. He founded the Club de Experimentación Fotográfica and has exhibited in Mexico and Chile.

Residency 2025

María Conchita Díaz, a Zapotec filmmaker from Oaxaca and graduate of the CCC. Her thesis La Soledad won the BAFTA Student Award and Yugo Student Choice Award, making her the first Mexican and Latin American recipient. Co-founder of IXMATI Films, she is developing Ascio o Día sin Sombra.

Residency 2025

Oscar Javier Martínez, also known as “Oxama,” is a music journalist, musician, and producer from Oaxaca. Co-founder of Cinema Domingo Orchestra with Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), he has collaborated with Ana Díaz, Lila Downs, and Susana Harp. He leads Mori Trío and hosts El Sexto Continente, a long-running jazz program.

Residency 2025

Guyphytsy Aldalai is a multidisciplinary artist from Guadalajara whose practice integrates dance, philosophy, and literature to explore the body as a political and poetic territory.

Casa Abierta 2025

Aura Arreola is a performer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist specializing in Butoh dance, sound performance, and intermedia collaborations.

Casa Abierta 2025

Julia Barrios de la Mora is a choreographer and performer, whose practice investigates relational ecologies between human and non-human bodies -

Casa Abierta 2025

Raymundo Rafael Pavón Lozano is a jaranero (traditional musician), composer, and singer from Xalapa, founder of La Calandria and collaborator of Natalia Lafourcade.

Casa Abierta 2025

Mirna Gómez Silva is a stage artist from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, with over 18 years of experience in contemporary dance and Afro-diasporic styles such as son jarocho and Guinean ballet.

Casa Abierta 2025

Natalhi Vázquez is an interdisciplinary stage creator trained in dance and theater in Oaxaca since 2005, with a focus on performative pieces and improvisation.

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Frida María Cruz Trujillo is a contemporary dance artist from Oaxaca who works as an independent artist and collaborates with La Locomotora Foro Escénico.

Casa Abierta 2025

Luis Vallejo is a stage artist from Orizaba with a prominent career as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher both in Mexico and abroad.

Casa Abierta 2025

Xiomara Valdez is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher from Chiapas, a graduate of the Universidad Veracruzana, whose career is centered on contemporary dance as a form of spiritual expression.

Casa Abierta 2025

Juan Pablo Miranda is an editor, cultural manager, and radio producer with a degree in Hispanic Literature from UNAM.

Casa Abierta 2025

Getse Zato is a stage artist, photographer, and psychotherapist with international experience in film, performance, video art, and theater.

Casa Abierta 2025

Rafael Chitiva is a Colombian artist specializing in contemporary dance, physical theater, and stage lighting, with over ten years of professional and pedagogical experience in Latin America.

Casa Abierta 2025

Eduardo Orozco Gómez is an actor, director, and playwright trained at CUT-UNAM with several diplomas in literary and choreographic creation.

Casa Abierta 2025

Hugo Morales Zendejas is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a 20-year career in popular, experimental, and improvised music.

Casa Abierta 2025