L'Internationale, the European confederation of museums, arts organizations and universities, launches two digital publications as part of the project “Museum of the Commons”.
Doing It with Others: A field report from our struggle to ecologize art institutions
How can art institutions move beyond theory to take real action in the face of the climate crisis? This publication is a candid field report from a three-year collective struggle to ecologize the arts. This book shares first-hand stories of successes, failures, and the inevitable frictions encountered when implementing sustainability in practice. From rethinking global art transport and pioneering virtual couriers to designing eco-conscious digital platforms and building urban energy communities, these case studies offer a transparent look at the limits and potential of institutional change. Whether a museum worker or an independent artist, the message is clear: you have the power to transform the ecosystem – but you must do it with others.
Contributors: Nick Aikens, Emirhan Altuner, Lotte Bode, Jakub Depczyński, Natalia Guaza, Maria Mallol González, Andrea Miguel, Karl Moubarak, Argyri Platsa, Camino Prieto Cadenas Ana Škegro, Bogna Stefańska
Editors: Jakub Depczyński and Bogna Stefańska
Copy Editor: Bill Roberts
Designer: Martyna Wyrzykowska
General Coordinator: Musuem of Modern Art Warsaw
Doing It with Others: A field report from our struggle to ecologize art institutions is available for download and shares from L’Internationale Online.
Archivos negros / Black Archives
What does it mean to build an archive from fragments? Black Archives, a three-part, bilingual series published on L’Internationale Online from February 2025 to April 2026, begins from this critical question and refuses to let it go. Written by Tania Safura Adam (curator, founder-editor of Radio Africa and conceptual architect of the research platform ‘España Negra’), the series traverses battlefields, music halls and diaspora communities, while following a single line of enquiry: How has Black life in Spain been rendered invisible, and what forms of knowledge, solidarity and political consciousness have persisted despite that invisibility?
This unprecedented research delves into the history and legacy of Pan-Africanism in Spain through the twentieth century, with resonances into the present. The series emerged in dialogue with the research and exhibition project Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica (Art Institute of Chicago; MACBA, Barcelona; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2025-26) curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky and Adom Getachew. Dyangani Ose's foreword opens this publication. In the MACBA iteration of the exhibition, Adam featured a substantial archival display of her investigation, España Negra, which places the history of Pan-Africanism within the specific context of Spain and Catalonia, as part of the broader archival approach of Black Radical Marxists against Fascism showcased in the exhibition.
Contributors: Tania Safura Adam
Foreword: Elvira Dyangani Ose
Editor: Nick Aikens
Copy Editors: Rebecca Bligh, Hannah Gregory
Spanish / English translation (introduction, episodes I–III): Jennie Gant
English / Spanish translation (editor’s note, foreword): Marta Malo – Zenobia Traducciones
Graphic Design: Anja Groten, Juliette Lizotte
General Coordinator: HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg University
Archivos negros / Black Archives is a bilingual publication (Spanish and English) available for download and shares from L’Internationale Online.
