Miguel Guevara Parra

Errata (Fe de erratas) is an artistic research project dealing with the plague control industry, understood as an expression of an ever-expanding human territorialism that is markedly one-sided towards other species. The project aims to produce a performative environment that allows the artist to carry out a collective rereading of the speciesist stereotypes inherent in the concept of a ‘plague’. 

The research is grounded on the theoretical framework of political ecology, an analysis of Spanish legislation on pest management, and the artist’s collaboration with anti-speciesist activism platforms. Aiming to challenge a certain idea of progress that imposes human sovereignty through the exclusion of species deemed undesirable for our social and economic development, the project seeks to dismantle the traps (black boxes) within the pest control industry, creating a collective narrative from which to speculate on other forms of coexistence.

Biography

The artistic practice of Miguel Guevara Parra (Lorca, 1990) spans writing, critical design and performance art, focusing particularly on the deconstruction of hegemonic narratives, especially those linked to our social-environmental crisis. His rather hybrid education—Architecture (UPM) and Contextual Design (DAE, with honours)—leads him to embark on projects that amalgamate physical spaces, activist pedagogy, and speculative fiction. 

Both as co-founder of The Ironing Board and in his solo work, he develops diverse forms of ‘transgressive storytelling’ that challenge communicative conventions associated with intersectional issues such as the climate emergency. He has recently published texts in publishing platforms such as Mother’s Rib Cage; Simulacrum Magazine; La paradoja del abuelo; Ediciones Parranda; and How to Scare an Octopus (Valiz).

Miguel Guevara Parra is a recipient of a Three-month Residency for Environmental Projects (2025).