INLAND is an arts collective, dedicated to agricultural, social and cultural production, and a collaborative agency.

It confronts various problems of a system that is collapsing at its environmental, cultural and financial levels – affecting both the planet and the individual – by formulating critical tools and applying them through experimental practice.

It builds on the premise that the rural offers a physical and cultural space for the generation of diverse ways of life that differ from the hegemonic model.

These other livelihoods are aware of their partial insertion in all established networks of exchange and aim to generate enough creative mass to question those power dynamics, as well as the current relationship between centre and peripheries.

Inland is based on a sort of three words manifesto: art-agriculture-territory.

It speaks from the silenced other realities resisting erasure.

It proposes collective encouragement for the reclamation of the means of livelihood.

As a cultural artefact it uses all representational tools at hand to expand – beyond the contexts it intervenes – what is produced in the instant and immediacy of the everyday.

It is in constant contradiction between the tactics of camouflage adopted by its antagonistic work – which mimics conventional art forms and institutionalised habits – and the open exposure of its dissent and the alternatives which it promises and tests.

As a para-institution, Inland is working together, against and beyond existing institutions. It is structured around different axis and lines of work – from training to commercialization- which feed back on each other and become a self-sustained model that adapts and replicates.

Inland’s value lies is the applicability of its method. It promotes cells in specific rural locations – some of which remain undisclosed – whilst operating at a supranational level, setting up agencies in different countries to affect agrarian and cultural policy frameworks in Europe.

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COMPOSITION & GOVERNANCE

Inland is composed by its association members, organised in a board, engaged for several years in the project and in charge of defining the annual action plan in assembly and representing Inland in different instances according to their fields of specialty. Inland members work together with team, that are responsible for different areas in the organisation. Inland has also volunteers and other collaborators that have expressed interest to help, staying for internships of variable duration.

INLAND ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

Sergio Bravo Josephson

Is a PhD Candidate at The Institute of Design of Umeå University in Sweden. He was formerly a faculty member at Konstfack University of Art, Design & Crafts in Stockholm. His academic expertise lies in community and participatory design through critical making. As an Inland member expert on design and architecture he has contributed to different exhibitions and projects. His artistic practice- based PhD project looks closer at grassroot communities’ successful experimental forms of struggle and resistance to achieve social and environmental justice, addressing various socio-political and ecological challenges.

Nel Cañedo

Nel studied Prehistory and is a professional bagpiper, touring to different inter-Celtic festivals in Europe. He finished the Inland Shepherds School and then started to be in charge of Inland first goats flock in the summer pastures. He accompanies the Shepherds School and cheese production, as well as mobilising the shepherds movement. Lives by the Inland Village

Fernando Garcia Dory

INLAND founder and director, with degrees in Art, Rural Sociology and Agriculture, coordinates different areas in the project as well as part-time cheesemaking and shepherding. In 2004 started the Shepherds School and has developed projects and shown his work at Tensta Konsthalle, Van Abbe Museum, SFMOMA, Documenta 12 and Biennales of Gwangju and Athens. He was granted the Socially Engage Award by Creative Time New York, the Chamberlain Award, finalist of the Rolex Prize, and the Baltic Arts Award. He is founder and board member of the World Alliance of Nomadic Pastoralists and coordinator of the European Shepherds Network. Lives in the Inland Village

Grace Gloria Denis

Received her BFA from Cal Arts and her MFA from TRANS— at HEAD Genève, with a focus on critical pedagogy. Her post-graduate studies include ETH Zurich’s World Food Systems Center and agroecology and bio-intensive agriculture at Las Canadas in Mexico. She has taught and developed non-profit arts education programs for various institutions, currently working on an eco-pedagogy project linked with HEAD Genève. At Inland she is in charge of the Inland Academy and the Inland Village Food Lab, where she is based.

Alexandra Maniu

Alexandra is based in the Inland Village county, coming from a migrant background. She holds degree in Law and is expert on women rights and gender violence prevention and prosecution. She is also in charge of the secretariat of the organisation and the legal management of the entity.

INLAND TEAM MEMBERS

Enrique Fernández

Trained in Cultural Management through a Masters programme in Rey Juan Carlos University, with a keen interest in design, food and community building, plus a background linked to participatory projects in the city of Madrid. Enrique is in charge of the public programme at the Inland space in Madrid, CAR (Center to the Approach to the Rural) , alongside other projects in the framework of Inland’s ongoing practices.

Laureano Garcia Vela

Has been practicing with diverse building techniques, also in Germany and Costa Rica, is also a carpenter and interested in ayurvedic fastening techniques. Is responsible for Inland Village construction.

Aliya Kumekbayeva

Aliya is a Sustainability and Agroecology specialist, having most recently obtained a MSc degree in Resilient Farming and Food Systems from Wageningen University and Isara Institute, with previous education in Environmental Management from Griffith University in Australia. Aliya is originally from Kazakhstan and currently based out of France. She currently leads the global secretariat of the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists, working closely with Fernando and the European Shepherds Network.

Elisa La Grua

Specialised in Arts, Museology and Curatorship by a Master of the University of Bologna, with a thesis around mountain communities revitalisation and the role of local museums. Elisa is the Academy Coordinator, amongst other projects in Inland, based at Inland Madrid.

Zaya Neluud

Studied the MA program in Development Anthropology at the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. Having grown up in a pastoralist family with 1,000 sheep in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia’s grasslands, her research focuses on pastures, sustainable pastoralism, rangeland ecosystems, and effective governance strategies in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Amdo Tibet. Currently on exchange with INLAND in Spain, Zaya is also a documentary photographer, striving to highlight pastoralism across different regions and showcase diverse pastoralist communities through her visual art.