Joaquín Vázquez Ruiz de Castroviejo

During the 1970s and 1980s he served in the Communist Movement and supported the creation of the Homosexual Liberation Front of Andalusia (FLHA) and the anti-NATO movements. He is a founding member of BNV producciones, established in 1988. From 2001 to 2015 he coordinated and produced the ‘art and thought’ programme at the International University of Andalusia. In 2006 he helped set up the Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policies (PRPC) in Seville.

From BNV producciones he has organised, coordinated and produced exhibitions, projects, publications, and cinema and video programmes, including: El sueño imperativo (The Imperative Sleep); Plus Ultra; 100%; Almadraba; Vagamundo. Reflexiones sobre el exilio (Vagabond World. Reflections on Exile); El fantasma y el esqueleto (The Ghost and The Skeleton); El cine calculado (Calculated Cinema); Ir y venir de Valcárcel Medina (Coming and Going of Valcárcel Medina); …De rasgos árabes (...Arabic Features); Desacuerdo. Sobre arte, política y esfera pública en el Estado español (Disagreement. On Art, Politics and the Public Sphere in the Spanish State); Arquitectura: lenguajes fílmicos (Architecture: Film Languages); Tratado de Paz (Peace Treaty); Máquinas de vivir (Machines for Living In). He is currently working with Mar Villaespesa to put together the exhibition titled Miguel Benlloch. Cuerpo conjugado (Miguel Benlloch. Conjugated Body).