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Archival Ecologies

February 23, 2026
AfterSchool, Announcement, BEE meet, Events, Workshop

Bureau for Experimental Ecology’s Spring Program organized by Maria Fernandez Pello and Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo

The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography is a collective of writers, ethnographers, artists, and curious minds invested in experimental and creative practices beyond academia. This Spring semester, we gather to discuss Archival Ecologies, their making, remaking, and unmaking, their relationship with subjects, matter, and environments, and their potential for social change. Through a series of talks, workshops, and film screenings, we invite the broader public to join us in asking: How can we reckon with the violences and erasures of the archive in a politically productive way? How might we foreground and engage with the material lives of archives and the everyday processes through which matter is sedimented into memory? How might we reimagine archival practices to cultivate different political horizons and relationships with the worlds yet to come?

List of Events:

February 26. Workshop: Autographic Environments – Morgan Mangelsen & Maria Fernandez Pello

  • Alienated Majesty Books, 5-7 pm

March 12. Screening: “Bienvenidos Conquistadores” – Andrés Jurado

  • RTF Room, 5:30-7 pm

March 26. Workshop: Collective Mapping – Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo

  • Open Room Austin, 5:30-7 pm


April 7. Screening and Q&A:  “Expedition Content” – Ernst Karel

  • Location and time?

April 20: Talk: “Collagraphic Encounters” – Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo

  • WCP 5.118, 12-1:3pm

April 23. Workshop: Unarchives and Unrest – Claire Fitch & Florian Grundmüller

  • Alienated Majesty Books, 5:30-7 pm