Editor’s note: As an introduction, we cordially invite our readers to look at the School of Apocalypse’s official website, using this link.   School of Apocalypse is an alternative education project that asks about connections between creative practice and notions of survival. Developed in collaboration between myself, Catherine Despont, Tal Beery, Eugenia Manwelyan and Adam | … |

It is always moving to end a cycle when the experience has disrupted and produced palpable effects on those involved. It was an honor for us to be part of the seminar Micropolitics of Creation, Archives, and the Cities of the Future. It was also a true learning process, seeing ourselves through the gaze of | … |

The summer of 2016 flew past like a flash. Working on Uncertainty School has remarkably been unlike working on any other projects. Uncertainty School felt like an unrehearsed play: everyone improvising a role they construct for themselves and learning along the way. I learned many lessons from the participants, had beautiful encounters, and experienced moments | … |

On November 22, researcher, translator, and poet Luis Miguel Isava was invited to a session of the Micropolitics of Creation, Archives, and the Cities of the Future seminar, dictated by Professor Camila Pulgar Machado with Backroom Caracas as guest. We were fortunate to hear him speak about Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever—the notion of archive and how it | … |

El pasado sábado 15 de octubre, durante la exhibición Poderes visibles e invsibles, curada por Kelly Gordon y parte del programa Global Visions: Arte e imagen en movimiento en la escena internacional, tuvimos la grata experiencia de recibir a la clase del Seminario Micropolíticas de creación, archivo y las ciudades del porvenir, junto a su profesora, Camila Pulgar Machado.

  Jorge Romero––educator, writer, and researcher––is a lover of crowds, the poetry of history, and the relationships between time and space. On October 27, Jorge joined us at the Micropolitics of Creation, Archives, and the Cities of the Future seminar, imparted by Camila Pulgar Machado and Backroom Caracas at the School of Literature of the | … |

Last Saturday, October 15, at the exhibition Powers Seen and Unseen, curated by Kelly Gordon as part of Global Visions: Insights into International Moving Image Art, we had the pleasant experience of hosting the Micropolitics of Creation, Archives, and the Cities of the Future seminar, together with professor Camila Pulgar Machado. This guided visit through | … |

In one of those elusive spots on the campus of the Universidad Central de Venezuela is the Casona Ibarra, a colonial treasure that during the 1940s served as base of operations for Carlos Raúl Villanueva. From there, he directed the construction of the University City that Unesco declared World Heritage of Humanity in the year | … |

The class begins with Natasha Tiniacos speaking from the bareness of Agamben. She introduces the reading and raises the notion of the contemporary: Backroom Caracas’s perspective: a point of view that, despite bifurcating the gaze—for in the contemporary rests “the broken back of time” (Agamben)—, encourages it by irrigating in it an untimely energy. It | … |

Last Tuesday, June 28, Professor Camila Pulgar inaugurated the seminar that we will be leading together in the School of Literature of the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Micropolitics of Creation, Archives, and the Cities of the Future is an ambitious title onto which we project the construction of a particular sketch, starting by reflecting on | … |

Desire, in whatever dimension it is considered, is never an undifferentiated energy, it is never a disorder. There are no universals, there is no bestial essence of desire. Desire is always the mode of production of something, desire is always the mode of construction of something. Félix Guattari   The main objective of this elective | … |

Chef Ann Cooper’s busy CCS Forum 2015 agenda began on Monday, May 25th. We visited the Carlos Soublette Municipal Integral Education Unit in Bello Campo, where 265 children are educated free of charge under the principles of sustainability and healthy eating.     Since 2011, the school community has worked along with the Association for | … |