Francesc Ruiz
Researcher in comic and performance, teaches experimental comics
In my work, the world is drawn, composed, published, and distributed while critically occupying the spaces of printed capitalism. Expanded comics, the informational architectures of newsstands, manga pornotopias, and contemporary logistics are some of the sites of intervention from which I have developed my practice over the past 20 years, creating installations and publications that insert themselves into specific contexts and transform the collective narratives that shape public space.
I have developed projects in national and international art centers and museums, including CA2M (Madrid), Gasworks (London), FRAC PACA (Marseille), as well as in biennials such as Venice and Busan. I have combined individual practice with other collective projects such as the experimental curatorial team CREATURES, the Radical Drawing Group, the feminist and queer fanzine PIPA, and the Institute of Porn Studies.
“At a crucial moment in which technology is making the draftsman’s body appear dispensable, exploring the limits of graphic narration—immersing ourselves in its origins and in the different traditions that crystallized into what we now call comics—may be the path we need to revisit in order to imagine other futures for the discipline.”
