Three art collectives dialogue around their strategies for creating commoning practices using experimental economies, collective cooking, multispecies dialogues, cooperation, DIY and other hybridized practices in order to question the culture of scarcity rooted in colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchal structures.

Digital technology has left no aspect of human experience untouched: our data has been commodified, our labor monitored, our attention monetized. How is this impacting today’s art collections? How do we take care and preserve our digital archives? This conversation addresses the inherent paradox within a capitalist system that is both dependent upon technological progress and menaced by it.

The aesthetics, contradictions, scarcities, absurdities and ethical questions around the economic relationships of production and exchange within internet-based practices, crypto-currencies and other technologies within the art system.

The projects gathered in this panel are characterized by arising, in all their conception and in the ways of their exchanges, to organizational references that go beyond those of capitalism in Western modernity. They also turn to thought models that have questioned said system. Through their practices, all of them collaborative and that appeal to experiences from other frameworks, they open spaces for reflection and artistic practices that escape an individualistic understanding of art that is conceived solely as the production of objects for a capitalist market.

Located in Oaxaca, Lugar común appeals to tequio's modes of collective organization; In dialogue with the feminist methodology of situated knowledge and the tradition of activist political participation in Veracruz, BRUMA Laboratoria investigates an art history in a decentered way; while the community organization Arte a 360 disseminates and promotes contemporary art in the state of Tlaxcala, while raising issues related to the defense of the territory and the Nahuatl language.

In this panel, we propose a space for reflection between representatives of projects that have been built as alternatives to conventional institutions and prevailing models. After reaching the objective of establishing itself, how to continue? How to sustain the energy? How to allow the projects to continue transforming to respond, in the same critical and divergent way, to the new challenges they face? What economic and ethical challenges does sustaining spaces that guarantee freedom of experimentation entail?The first invited to this panel is SOMA, an independent space that emerged to offer a study program with a postgraduate level, but which has chosen not to be official, to maintain the freedom of artistic and pedagogical experimentation.

On the other hand, Common places is the new program of the inSITE platform, with activities in Baja California, Peru and South Africa; here we seek to highlight how an internationally recognized project within a globalized contemporary art discourse opts for a radical look at the local and contextual, and to emphasize the ability of a recognized project to reinvent itself.

Finally, TEOR/ética, a space for reflection and exhibition of contemporary artistic practices in Costa Rica, and its ability to sustain energy, financing, and vocation in an independent and non-profit project.