The event takes place every first Thursday of the month during the semester from September through December and from February through June and is open to PhD students at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), the National Institute of Design (NID), and other interested guests and PhD students from other universities.
Paloma Ayala
Se venden tamales de “PECHITOS” (We serve “TITIES” tamales)
Thursday, June 4, 2026
12:00 - 13:15 (CET / Central Europe)
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm (IST / India)
– The first thing that attracted my attention in Bolivia were the termite nests. They look like brown human breasts, hard and porous, unevenly shaped, raising from the clay grounds of Santa Cruz .–
Tamales (corn bread), tits, and termite nests are the main characters of the story Paloma will share at Positionings. For years, she has developed storytelling sessions as a method or format to discuss human-environmental relations. Alongside experiencing a digital storytelling session, Paloma takes us on a journey of reflection on her artistic approach. Food is the unraveling element of it. Please bring your food and eat meanwhile.
Paloma Ayala is a visual artist interested in the relationship between environment, domestic living strategies, and political contexts. Paloma´s projects nourish visions of connection between human and more-than-human spheres, they dream of emancipation from marginalizing dominant structures, and emphasize practices of care across different borders. Her work takes the form of publications, videos, installations, reading/cooking sessions, lecture performances, and workshops. Paloma’s work is rooted in her home, the East US/MX border landscapes, simultaneously blooming in her current base in Zurich.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture series or the PhD programme please share them by mail to
esi@hslu.ch.
