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Victoria Vargas DowningRaised in the Atacama Desert in Chile and now based in the UK, curator and researcher Victoria ...
24/08/2026

Victoria Vargas Downing

Raised in the Atacama Desert in Chile and now based in the UK, curator and researcher Victoria Vargas Downing talks to us about the 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂, an Andean symbol that has become central to the way she researches and thinks.

In 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, Victoria walks us through how the chakana has shaped her research, bringing intellectual, spiritual and material forms of knowledge together. It offers a way of questioning the separation between human life and the natural world, while allowing seemingly contradictory ways of understanding the world to coexist.

Written by NTO’s Editorial Associate Audrey Markel Audrey Markel , the conversation is part of 𝑶𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅: 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, Not The Owners’ editorial series exploring ideas and questions across Lines of Flight, CASA’s multi-arts programme at Brixton House.

📌 Read the full conversation via the link in bio.

Victoria Vargas DowningRaised in the Atacama Desert in Chile and now based in the UK, curator and researcher Victoria ...
24/08/2026

Victoria Vargas Downing

Raised in the Atacama Desert in Chile and now based in the UK, curator and researcher Victoria Vargas Downing talks to us about the 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂, an Andean symbol that has become central to the way she researches and thinks.

In 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, Victoria walks us through how the chakana has shaped her research, bringing intellectual, spiritual and material forms of knowledge together. It offers a way of questioning the separation between human life and the natural world, while allowing seemingly contradictory ways of understanding the world to coexist.

The conversation is part of 𝑶𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅: 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, Not The Owners’ editorial series exploring ideas and questions across Lines of Flight, CASA’s multi-arts programme at Brixton House.

✍️ by Audrey Markel Audrey Markel

📌 Read the full conversation via the link in bio.

Emilia González Salgado & Gabriela Román GonzálezAs Lines of Flight moves towards its final chapter this autumn, we’re...
18/08/2026

Emilia González Salgado & Gabriela Román González

As Lines of Flight moves towards its final chapter this autumn, we’re looking back at where it began, with Emilia González Salgado, the first artist we worked with as part of the programme.

In Proximity as a Line of Flight, artist Emilia González Salgado and curator Gabriela Román González return to the making of What do we risk by coming closer?, the exhibition that opened the programme at Brixton House, reflecting on what trust makes possible when working together.

Written by NTO’s Editorial Associate Audrey Markel (Audrey Markel), the conversation is part of Emilia González Salgado & Gabriela Román González

📌 Read the full conversation via the link in bio.

More from INDEPENDENCE at Brixton House.Débora Delmar & Ilê SartuziCurated by Gabriela Román González27 June - 4 July 20...
13/08/2026

More from INDEPENDENCE at Brixton House.

Débora Delmar & Ilê Sartuzi
Curated by Gabriela Román González
27 June - 4 July 2026

Presented by CASA and Not the Owners as part of Systems in Question, a chapter of Lines of Flight programme at Brixton House.

Débora Delmar Ilê Sartuzi Gabriela Román González | Art Curator, Writer & Strategist CASA not the owners Brixton House

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INDEPENDENCE at Brixton House looked at what it means to be independent, and at all the dependencies, negotiations and s...
12/08/2026

INDEPENDENCE at Brixton House looked at what it means to be independent, and at all the dependencies, negotiations and structures that complicate that idea.

The exhibition used its own making as material. Three contracts, independently authored by Débora Delmar, Ilê Sartuzi and curator Gabriela Román González, set the terms: clocking in every day, giving up decisions to one another, temporarily speaking on each other’s behalf, disclosing budgets and keeping records of the process.

Things that usually stay behind the scenes became part of what was on view.

INDEPENDENCE
Débora Delmar & Ilê Sartuzi
Curated by Gabriela Román González
27 June - 4 July 2026

Presented by CASA and Not the Owners as part of Systems in Question, a chapter of Lines of Flight programme at Brixton House.

Débora Delmar Ilê Sartuzi Gabriela Román González | Art Curator, Writer & Strategist CASA not the owners Brixton House

The first conversation from “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” is now live, an editorial series by Not The Owners devel...
31/03/2026

The first conversation from “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” is now live, an editorial series by Not The Owners developed alongside CASA’s “Lines of Flight” programme.

This edition feature .press - a publishing platform working across design, curating and research.

From print as a tactile and slower medium, to bilingual publishing as a political choice, the conversation moves through questions of circulation, authorship, and how practices take shape across contexts.

Read the full interview on the Not The Owners website.

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Interviewees - , Ají Press founders
Interview by
Editing by

We’re pleased to share “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” an editorial series by Not The Owners, developed in dialogue ...
12/03/2026

We’re pleased to share “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” an editorial series by Not The Owners, developed in dialogue with “Lines of Flight”, CASA’s multi-artform programme at Brixton House.

Running alongside the programme’s live and in-person activations, the series adds a discursive layer that opens up its curatorial questions through conversation and reflection.

Through a series of in-depth exchanges with artists, curators, and cultural workers, it explores how they respond to the structures shaping artistic and cultural work today, the forms of relation they build through their practices, and the ways they create space for thinking and making that do not always fit dominant structures.

Featuring conversations with:
Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Emilia González - .g.spress x Juliana Monsalvec - & Santiago Valencia Parra -
Macarena Gomez-Barris -
Mara Polgovsky - .polgovsky
Niklas von Bartha -
Pia Gottschaller
Sofía Gotti -
Victoria Vargas Downing -

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Research, interviews and writing: Audrey Markel -

Curatorial and editorial direction: Gabriela Román González -

Photographs courtesy of the interviewees.

The series will begin unfolding in the next week.

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