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Ethel Baraona Pohl
@ethelbaraona.bsky.social
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Don’t stop talking about Palestine. Critical observer of the real world, co-founder of dpr-barcelona + researcher Architecture and Care ETH Zürich. They|them antifascist 🌈 "Love, music, wine and revolution."

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Lovely book launch of Opera Aperta, the catalogue of the Holy See pavilion at the Venice Biennial.

Edited by Marina Otero, Tatiana Bilbao, MAIO, and Giovanna Zabotti, it includes a multivocal approach to the care, repair, and maintenance. Happy to find @shannonmattern.bsky.social on it’s pages.
Photo of the Opera Aperta catalogue A person reading the book, holding it on her hands, there are a few more persons around and on first place, a big wooden table, all with a yellow-ish light. Marina Otero introducing the cataloge. Pages of Shannon Mattern’s text. In the background the big table, a few persons and a violinist playing (all with the yellow filter coming from the pavilion’s lights)
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Buen domingo, belleza. Se te piensa desde este sitio hermoso 🥰
Venecia, un canal con un puente. A ambos lados, las típicas casas venecianas. A la izquierda de la foto, una góndola.
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Wonderful day of conversations, thinking together, friendships, and books in Venice. What else?
An interior space (the Holy See pavilion in Venice) with a piano and a window with a beautiful yellow filter. A person (from the back) restoring the altar of the chapel. Interior space with a yellow-ish light with chairs and people attending to a series of talks. Two books and a mic over a green chair
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Friendly reminder, if in Venice this Saturday, please join us!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/care-x-ope...

We're organizing a series of intertwined conversations, where participants reflect on collective and reparative approaches to dwelling and on care as a material, political, and ecological practice.
Photo of a piano in the interior space of the Holy See pavilion in the Venice Biennale, a space with an scaffolding and a yellow light, creating a beautiful atmosphere.
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Es una diosa, si. La semana que viene la veremos en vivo y a todo color en Zürich y me hace tremenda ilusión.

Ha sido una conversación generosa, ha escuchado y preguntado a partes iguales, se ríe mucho y eso es bellísimo. En fin, it’s been a wonderful day 🩵
Screenshot de zoom con tres personas, arriba izquierda, Anna Puigjaner; arriba derecha, yo; abajo centro, Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I'm about to interview one of my heroines—¡a ver si logro calmar los nervios!
Secuencia de fotos que muestra la performance de Mierle Laderman Ukeles limpiando las calles frente al museo. Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside by Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 1973, via Brooklyn Museum
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Bona nit dear lovely people.
Graffiti en letras negras sobre muro beige que dice “ven, seremos”
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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«Él solo quiere mirar
la calesita de los sueños
que se fueron y ya no volverán.»
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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In other unrelated news, if you're planning to be at the Venice Biennale closing weekend, please join us for this amazing program:

😈 www.eventbrite.com/e/care-x-ope...

Where @care-xyz.bsky.social meets Opera aperta, a day of conversations with a magnificent group of friends, don't miss it!
Poster with purple texts over white background. Above all the word Care. in big size, occupying all the width of the page. Below the details of the event (same as on the link)
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Como persona que tuvo que llevar una ileostomía durante un largo (larguísimo) año, encontrar esto en Barajas me ha robado el ❤️

En general no es fácil encontrar baños públicos limpios y las dificultades añadidas de ser una persona ostomizada (luces automáticas y todo eso) hacen que esto me parezca 💯
Pasillo de un aeropuerto (Barajas, Madrid). En primer plano una persona de perfil empujando una silla de ruedas que lleva a otra persona. Al fondo la típica señalización de aeropuerto indicando la dirección de los baños, añadiendo iconos de personas con ostomia y el texto “stoma friendly toilets” El baño es como una mezcla de inodoro/lavamanos para vaciar las bolsitas cómodamente, con todo lo que uno necesita. Buena luz, jabón, etc. maravilla. Otra vista del baño, que es como una mezcla de inodoro/lavamanos para vaciar las bolsitas cómodamente, con todo lo que uno necesita. Buena luz, jabón, etc. maravilla Otra vista de la señalización de los baños, con el mismo texto que en la primera foto: rótulo indicando la dirección de los baños, añadiendo iconos de personas con ostomia y el texto “stoma friendly toilets”
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Hélène Cixous translated by the great @reproutopia.bsky.social and published by the one and only @silver-press.bsky.social

I simply can’t wait for this. Some of my favs all together, pure gold!
Photo of a book, the background is red, the book cover is black with a white text on it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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No tengo ni idea de para qué sirve una bienal, pero intentaremos darle un par de vueltas y tener algunas ideas claras para participar en esta bonita mesa redonda, junto a gente con la que tengo enormes ganas de compartir:

www.bienalmugak.eus/es/conferenc...

El 14 de Nov como cierre de Mugak/
Maria Arana presentando, con una pantalla bastante grande detrás de ella, en tonos azul oscuro, con unas casas volando y el nombre "Castillos en el aire" escrito en blanco.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Past week was lucky enough to attend “Library Making as Practice” in Basel with Nick Thurston, Eva Weinmayr, Stefanie Bräuer, Lucie Kolb, et al.

It was a magical night, talking about pirate editions, archives, and how to make books and ideas collectively accessible. Here some of those moments.
Posters on a wall showing book’s covers or pages and yellow cards explaining the reasons to recommend each book. Central to the photo, a page that says “this book is a classroom.” Two red chairs for the lecturers, two wooden boxes used as small tables. Over one of them a laptop; over the other and on one of the chairs, pages and books creating a spontaneous beautiful mess. Label on a tote bag that says “i never read. Art book fair Basel.” Self portrait on a mirror with a design of lines and words, an assemblage of the words “rooms,” “all rooms,” “all rooms all”
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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No sé si esto es cierto o no, pero quiero creer que si—y por algo adoro tanto a los gatos. Cats against cryptobros unite and take over.

“The cats curled up on the GPUs, blocking ventilation causing the cooling systems to shut down, forcing the facility to halt operations.”
Photos from the scene show several cats comfortably resting atop the glowing mining machines.
November 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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He visto este jersey hoy e inmediatamente he pensado en @lalibritos.bsky.social 🐦‍⬛🪶🦜
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Hoy he hecho una videollamada con mi hija y le he dicho, “mira, amor, tenemos libro nuevo!” Ella se ha echado a reir y me ha dicho, “mama, pero el dibujo de la portada se parece tu pelo.”

📚🤭 that’s what I call and embodied publishing practice.
(cc @nina-cc.bsky.social)
Un selfie, mostrando la portada del libro y mi cara justo detrás. La portada tiene una ilustración de lo que parece ser un planeta en llamas, en blanco y negro; por lo que es un circulo imperfecto y con irregularidades en la circunferencia y hacia arriba, una mancha oscura, como la imagen cuando se enciende un fósforo o cerilla. Mi cara se ve de nariz hacia arriba, gafas y el pelo corto, que se parece (según mi hija) a esa mancha oscura de la portada. Al fondo de todo, una librera.
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Current state of affairs at @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social HQ, distributors and bookshops will be happy soon 📦📚🌱
Stack of many different books over a dinning table. There is an open cardboard box, a piano and some posters in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Esto de Tim Etchells me representa.
Texto pidiendo disculpas por la mala calidad de un texto escrito.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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… y esta parte del colofón me ha recordado una conversa que tuve ayer con @calleneptuno.bsky.social (aunque ni de lejos en toque arty-poético-visual del que me compartiste, Carlos) 🤭
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Esa felicidad de olor a libro nuevo, recién salido del horno—y este además, bello como el que más!
Una mano sostiene un libro. Foto tomada en un balcón, por lo que el libro en primer plano tiene de fondo unos edificios y un trozo de cielo azul y despejado. Caja de imprenta con varios libros. La portada es beige con unos pigmentos rosa muy suaves, el título en la esquina superior izquierda “Architecture is Climate”, en el centro un dibujo parecido al emoji de 🔥 .
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Where Georges Didi-Huberman meet Calvin & Hobbes meets the fireflies.
A vignete of Calvin & Hobbes. (1)Calvin says, pointing to the night sky, "look, a firefly". (2)Hobbes looks at him, he is looking at his ass (3) Calvin is mad because his ass is not lightning up, Hobbes just looks at him, silently (4) Hobbes says, "your rear hasn't lit, if that's what you're wondering. Calvin says, "I can't even tell what muscle to flex" A page from the book Survival of the Fireflies by georges Didi-Huberman, highlighted the quote "But first, have the fireflies truly disappeared? Have they all disappeared? Do they still emit—but from where?—their wondrous intermittent signals? Do they still seek each other out somewhere, speak to each other, love each other in spite of all, in spite of all the machine—in spite of the murky night, in spite of the fierce spotlights?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🤔🫨 my co—star is confusing me today
Mobile notification from the app co-star with a moon on the left side and the following text: Your say at glance You are the dream, the nightmare, and the dream within the nightmare that becomes a dream.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Good morning dear lovely people, que sea el comienzo de una linda semana.
I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. ~ Joan Didion
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Which one is your favourite?
A poster outlining 60 ways to build community
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I’m thinking on the Paneuropean Picnic, and its political context “When the end finally came for the iron curtain, it was not bulldozers or hammers that struck one of the first decisive blows, but a picnic.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/a...

Not sure if it fits on your list of references, but…
A display of photos from the pan-European picnic in 1989 formed part of an open-air exhibition at the Austrian-Hungarian border. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images A poster advertising the pan-European picnic in 1989. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM