/ecm diskurs 77: María Inés Plaza Lazo

Redistributing Wealth: Publishing Arts of the Working Class
Lecture: María Inés Plaza Lazo, cofounder, publisher and editor at large of Arts of the Working Class

Arts of the Working Class is sold on the streets by people in precarious living conditions, while also circulating through museums, biennials, bookstores, and social movements worldwide. By connecting these different spheres, the newspaper rethinks how wealth – material, cultural, and symbolic – can be redistributed through publishing.

In this lecture and workshop, part of the series /ecm diskurs, publisher and founder María Inés Plaza Lazo will share insights into the editorial and curatorial strategies of the newspaper Arts of the Working Class.

María Inés Plaza Lazo is a writer, editor, and cultural worker from Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the cofounder, publisher and editor at large of Arts of the Working Class, a multilingual street journal on poverty and wealth, art and society. Trained in art history in Munich and shaped by transnational feminist practice, her work moves between publishing, curating, and collective pedagogy – always questioning who art is for and under what conditions it circulates.

Please register at ecm@uni-ak.ac.at