camila kevorkian, Project director
María Sticotti, Production
Educator and artistic-researcher. My work explores the intersection of performativity, archives, and critical pedagogy through affective methodologies. For over thirteen years, I work in a situated and decolonial way through residencies, workshops, performative films, and collective editorial publications. I hold a BA in Fine Arts (2018, UNA), an MA in Experimental Cinema (2019, MASTERLAV), and an MA in in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts (Feminist and Queer/Cuir Perspectives) (2024, MUECA).
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Andrea Domínguez is a memory worker based on Kumeyaay Lands (Tijuana–San Diego). She holds an MLIS in Archival Studies from UCLA and works as a digital archivist with the Chicana/Archive at SDSU and pirate librarian for Archival Bootcamp. A former Mellon Foundation Community Archives Fellow, she also completed an archival residency with Trabajo Práctico in Valencia, Spain.
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✧ HOLDING THIS SPACE TOGETHER ✧
Archival Bootcamp is sustained by situated experiences, political commitments, and affective lineages: Malinches, queer/cuir/kwir, sudakas, chicanas, and inhabitants of Abya Yala, its mountainous, riverine, and desert borderlands. ✧
✧ We practice care as a collective responsibility
Care is not a service provided by some for others, it’s reciprocal. We invite everyone to care for themselves, for one another, and for the space we temporarily inhabit together.
✧ We understand archives as living and situated
Archives are not neutral. They carry histories, silences, absences, violences, desires, and possibilities.
✧ We believe knowledge is collectively produced
Our pedagogical approach is rooted in critical pedagogies, and community-based practices. We value different forms of knowledge: embodied, emotional, experiential, ancestral, playful, and academic.
✧ We welcome uncertainty and contradiction
We understand learning as a transformative and sometimes uncomfortable process. Disagreement can be generative when held with care and accountability.
✧ We oppose all forms of domination and exclusion
We are committed to creating a space that actively resists racism, colonialism, ableism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and all forms of violence and supremacy. We ask everyone participating to remain attentive to how power operates within ourselves, our practices, and our relationships.
✧ We honor different rhythms and capacities
Rest, slowness, silence, and participation are not experienced equally by everyone. We encourage participants to listen to their own needs and to make space for others to do the same. There is no single correct way of participating.
We understand these principles not as fixed rules, but as ongoing practices. We invite everyone to help us hold, question, and care for this space together. ✧
Pepa is an Image and Sound Designer (FADU, UBA), photographer, and producer. Her practice moves between documentary and experimental film, with a focus on archives, analog materials, and sensory narratives. She has directed music videos and documentaries, and her photographic work has been exhibited in galleries across Argentina. She has participated in residencies and research-based workshops centered on archival practices and material experimentation, including the first edition of ArchivalBootcamp in 2024 🌿.
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Andrea Domínguez, Library