Bio
Judit Sánchez Velasco (1984, Barcelona) is an artist–activist, yerbera, permaculture designer and researcher based in the land of Astures, northwest of the Iberian peninsula.
Judit holds a post-master in Collective Practices from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and a master’s degree in Communication Design from The Glasgow School of Art. She has been part of the artist-led research expedition La Wayaka Current, Indigenous Province of Guna Yala; and she has been awarded residencies at Nes Artist Residency, Iceland; and Kala Khoj Artist Residency in the experimental evolving township of Auroville, India.
Her practice engages in the wilds of the land, the psyche, and the lived experience of the body. Judit's previous investigations were informed by the embodied exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Darien Gap, the geothermal field of Námafjall, and the old-growth Caledonian Forest. Her gaze is intertwining today the social aspect of permaculture, syntropic agroforestry, and the vitalist tradition of herbalism.
Judit’s current research encompasses the collection of texts “Pneuma” (2022—ongoing) and the collaboratory for a more-than-human care “La Llosa de los Valles” (2023—ongoing). “Pneuma” emerged as an attempt for the human embody to honour the intelligent and self-regulating force that heals all nature, humanity included. It was introduced by a series of meditations at When Things Are Alive, a festival presented in June 2022 by the post-master course “Collective Practices” at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and Hägerstensåsen Medborgarhuset, in collaboration with Council, Paris. The written work is expected to be published again shortly. “La Llosa de los Valles” is situated on a lush hill of prairie and Cantabrian mixed forest in the land of Astures with a proposal in the making to inhabit the land from a forest culture.