Ica Sadagat
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
Catherine Anabella
Catherine Anabella Lie is an Indonesian interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, and educator based in Mexico City. Her practice centers on commoning and uses scores, video, and text to explore alternative histories beyond dominant narratives. She collaborates with more-than-human presences in everyday life—stuffed animals, a broken phone tracing global copper mining, and sourdough starter—as tools to examine kinship, identity, design, and ecology.
Residency 2025
Espartaco Martínez
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
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
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
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
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
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
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