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'''Clara Balaguer''' is a cultural worker interested in the decolonization of cultural production most especially through the lens of contemporary vernacular. She is Head of [https://www.wdka.nl/practices/social-practices Social Practices] at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam and tutor in Experimental Publishing, [[Piet Zwart Institute]], Rotterdam. She founded [http://officeocd.com/ The Office of Culture and Design] in 2010, a platform through which she articulated research, residencies, and social practice projects in the Philippines. She explores collaborative authorship through the clandestine publishing of Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage-industry fuelled imprint she co-founded in 2013. She has lectured at Walker Art Center, Harvard GSD, MIT, Strelka Moscow, MoMA PS1, Triple Canopy, Hanyang University Seoul, and University of the Philippines. Her work has been exhibited and performed at Asia Culture Center, Singapore Art Museum, Art Dubai, Hangar Barcelona, and La Capella.
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'''Clara Balaguer''' (1980, Manila) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Philippines through the [https://walkerart.org/magazine/insights-2017-clara-balaguer-and-kristian-henson-office-of-culture-designhardworking-goodlooking OCD], a residency space and social practice platform. In 2013, she co-founded [https://www.instagram.com/hardworkinggoodlooking Hardworking Goodlooking], a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in the material vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she builds and publishes curriculums at [[BAK|BAK basis voor aktuele kunst]] as head of Civic Praxis (Community Portal); at Willem de Kooning Academy as research lecturer in [https://www.wdka.nl/practices/social-practices Social Practices]; at [[Piet Zwart Institute]] as a midwife for [https://xpub.nl/ Experimental Publishing]; and at Sandberg Institute as teacher at the Dirty Art Department. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in any given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined: a transitional, migratory, neighborly structure of sleeper cells (Trojan horse networks) that activate–deactivate for leaking access to cultural capital. [https://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/staff-and-tutors/ (2022)]
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Clara Balaguer (1980, Manila) is a cultural worker and grey literature circulator. From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Philippines through the OCD, a residency space and social practice platform. In 2013, she co-founded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz interested in the material vernacular, collectivizing authorship, and the value of the error. Currently, she builds and publishes curriculums at BAK basis voor aktuele kunst as head of Civic Praxis (Community Portal); at Willem de Kooning Academy as research lecturer in Social Practices; at Piet Zwart Institute as a midwife for Experimental Publishing; and at Sandberg Institute as teacher at the Dirty Art Department. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in any given project, the latest of which is To Be Determined: a transitional, migratory, neighborly structure of sleeper cells (Trojan horse networks) that activate–deactivate for leaking access to cultural capital. (2022)

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