Welcome Paolo Diaz

in-tangible institute is pleased to welcome Paolo Diaz to its ‘Creative In Residence’ from 4 August – 26 September, 2025, with thanks to the POZEN Family Centre for Human Rights, University of Chicago.

Paolo’s residency will work in collaboration with in-tangible institute’s Moving the Image program, dedicated to challenging the role of the moving image in contemporary life and exploring its capacity to act as a catalyst to provoke discussion, foster analytical thinking, and address intersectional, interregional issues of social and political justice. He will spend his time in residence developing a screening program aimed at exploring issues of labor rights and immigration, as both a regional and global concern. This screening program will be followed by a moderated discussion that brings diverse communities into conversation to engage these issues from multiple perspectives.

About in-tangible institute ‘Creative In Residence’ program

This program seeks minds who understand why the world needs to be decentralized in how it thinks, values, defines, recalls and attends to cultural memory. To decentralise is to question who has the right to speak and for whom. To decentralise is to propel alternate perspectives on what is considered standard, original, and authentic. To decentralise is to understand the art of collaboration, of shared knowledge, and the necessity to study the hidden and the overlooked.  This program focuses on the contexts and experiences of those hailing from globalizing souths, whose (enforced and voluntary) migratory experiences have forged transoceanic alliances of exchange and knowledge in the aftermath of colonial violence. The program endeavours to prompt critical encounters with disparate cultural memories, with the hope of challenging the assumptions of our systematized social worlds, whose realities are fashioned by hegemonic economies and histories bound to nation-building. Inviting a range of creative thinkers—writers, artists, curators, collectors, theorists, social scientists, musicians, filmmakers, and more—this program asks that residents engage our local community through their research. Through talks, screenings, seminars, workshops, music nights, or live conversations, residents are expected to spend time inspiring others rather than producing new individual work.

About POZEN Family Centre for Human Rights

The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago supports innovative interdisciplinary teaching and research initiatives that critically explore the theory and practice of global human rights.