Rafael Pérez Evans is a Spanish-Welsh artist and educator who will introduce his site-specific installation and sculptural practice. His research examines devaluation as both a condition and a site of possibility within systems of care rooted in queer, rural and disabled communities. Working with tired materials drawn from agricultural protests and industrial contexts, alongside foodstuffs and plants, he treats dumping, spilling and mishandling as core sculptural methods that can reanimate and liberate matter tied to labour, protest and survival.

In the second half of the talk, Pérez Evans will introduce ideas from Crip and Mad studies that guide his move away from detached, colder and standardised modes of academic thinking and writing. He will offer a series of diaristic dumps, thinking through dump as text. Here, dumping shifts from material action to a heated, rant-based voice and writing practice, marking a temperature shift that centres autotheory, instability, and emotional excess as ways of pouring out and airing knowledge and critique, rather than states to be concealed or corrected.