​MARÍA INÉS PLAZA LAZO

María Inés Plaza Lazo was born and raised in Guayaquil, and from an early age projected her own nomadic future. Trained as an art historian at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, she is the founder, publisher and editor of Arts of the Working Class (AWC), a bimonthly street newspaper about art and society, wealth and poverty. She occasionally curates exhibitions and events with or through her work at AWC. She curated a panel on what connects art and activism today (IRL and URL) for the Public Art Conferences in Nuremberg and the Souls for Labour Market at Atelier Gardens, dedicated to the poetics and struggles of those who produce applied arts, foods and happenings as manufacturers. 

 

She was a Media Fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, where she engaged in the development of formats for inclusion and accessibility in relation to academic research and political agency. She is currently invested in figuring new ways out of the current sociopolitical polarisations and the so-called culture wars.