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Ariadna Rodriguez and Iñaki Alvarez are nyamnyam. Combining their formations and deformations in various disciplines, their work aims to promote creation, diffraction, and the exchange of knowledge through interaction strategies in each (g)local context where they operate. At this crossroads between live arts, visual arts, critical thinking, and pedagogies, nyamnyam’s work moves between project creation and curatorship understood as a transdisciplinary space of relationship and disruption, challenging the standardized view of cultural commodification. They have developed various theatrical pieces presented at international festivals such as Festival Les Urbainnes (Lausanne, Switzerland); Radical Hospitality Festival at Blackbox Teater (Oslo, Norway); MIR Festival (Athens, Greece); Danza en la ciudad Festival (Bogotá, Colombia); SALIVA cycle at CentroCentro (Madrid, Spain); Short Theater Festival (Rome, Italy); and ZOOM IN! Festival at Duncan Dance Research Center (Athens, Greece), among others. They have carried out and shared their projects in Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Greece, USA, Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. After eight years of activity in their Barcelona space, in 2020 they opened Espai nyamnyam in the micro-village of Mieres (Girona), a cultural cooperative focused on contemporary artistic practice within the degrowth orbit. Their projects have received support from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) through its Internationalization of Spanish Culture program (PICE), Generalitat de Catalunya (ICEC and OSIC), Creative Europe (European Union), and Institut Ramon Llull (Catalonia).