Description: Cristina Morales is a London-based Spanish born Cultural Activist. With a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and a MA in Arts and Culture Production from the Open University of Catalonia, she has become a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator linking art with radical politics. She works for freelance projects…
Cristina Morales is a cultural activist – an applied anthropologist and transdisciplinary cultural practitioner working internationally as a critical researcher, writer, educator, and social practice curator-artist at the intersection of art and politics for self and social development. A singular trauma-informed cultural strategist linking decolonial theory and the full spectrum of human sciences with social practice art. Her work and interests involve but are not limited to public engagement, co-led and
In addition to being the founding curator of Counterspace and the founding artist of Totem Taboo, Cristina is currently a freelance writer published by international media such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), El Mundo (Madrid), Humanities, Arts & Society (Paris), A Beautiful Resistance (Seattle), Inhabit (Global), Ouvrage (Montreal), and Radio Africa (Barcelona). She is also occasionally a guest speaker for organisations such as the Social Art Network (UK), and guest lecturer for universitie
Counterspace | 2019 – Present, International. Counterspace is an independent curatorial platform functioning as the first decolonial thinktank mapping cultural activism worldwide. It shapes collectively decolonial toolkits with common tools and resources, and a global directory browsable by continent, praxis, and social construct as a Beuys-inspired ‘social sculpture’ revisited. The first global network and social movement linking the countercultural experiences and radical culture shakers (artists, curator