Meeting of the Study Group on Art, Culture and Politics in Recent Argentina (IIGG)

MEETINGS 2026

Conversation with YoNoFui about the book Alternative Justices. Can we imagine a world without prisons?

Presented by: María Medrano, Nina Rodríguez, Ari Lutzker and Ana Longoni

Comments by: Lili Cabrera and Verónica Perera

Summary:

What other forms of justice exist? What impact do prisons have on personal and social conflicts? What practices depolice us and which ones activate our internal policing?

Alternative Justice. Can we imagine a world without prisons? (Tren en Movimiento, 2025), is a collective book promoted by YoNoFui that invites us to think about conflict, punishment and ways of creating the common beyond punitive logics.

The result of the First International Anti-Punitive and Penal Abolitionist Meeting, held in November 2023, brings together experiences, debates and reflections from activists, militants, people who have been through the prison system, members of social organizations, academics and leaders committed to the search for other ways of doing justice.

Through questions, stories, and shared reflections, the book opens up the possibility of imagining different ways of addressing conflicts, repairing damage, and building justice beyond punishment and confinement.

Bios:

María Medrano is a poet, teacher, prison abolition activist, and anti-punitive advocate. She is a member of the YoNoFui collective, the Imaginary Revolution Committee (CRI), and the Mostri Column. She has published Despeinada and Unidad 3.

Nina (Alejandra) Rodríguez is a professor, holds a degree in Fine Arts (University of Buenos Aires), and is a researcher, queer activist, penal abolitionist, and anti-punitive. Her research explores the intersections between pedagogical-artistic practices and processes of political subjectivation. She is a member of the YoNoFui collective, the Imaginary Revolution Committee (CRI), and the Mostri Column.

Ari Lutzker is a teacher, performer, penal abolitionist, and anti-punitive activist. He is a member of the YoNoFui collective, the Imaginary Revolution Committee (CRI), and the Mostri Column.

Ana Longoni is a writer, a researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), and a professor at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She holds a PhD in Arts (UBA) and works on the intersections of art and politics in Latin America. Since its founding in 2007, she has been a driving force behind the Red Conceptualismos del Sur (Southern Conceptualisms Network). She has curated numerous exhibitions, both individually and collaboratively, most recently "Giro Gráfico, como en el muro la hiedra" (Graphic Turn, Like Ivy on the Wall) (2022), "El futuro detrás" (The Future Behind) (2023), and "Alejandra Fenochio. Ahora" (Alejandra Fenochio. Now) (2025). She served as Director of Public Activities at the Reina Sofía Museum from 2018 to 2021.

Lili Cabrera is a non-binary writer, transfeminist activist, and prison abolitionist. She is a member of the collective

YoNoFui, the Imaginary Revolution Committee (CRI), and the Mostri Column. He has published four books of poems: Obligado tic tac, Bancame y punto, Tu nombre escrito en tinta china, and De espaldas al sol. He is also involved in photography, audiovisual production, and artificial intelligence.

Verónica Perera is a research professor at the National University of Avellaneda. She is a member of the Study Group on Art, Culture, and Politics in Recent Argentina at the IIGG-UBA (Institute of General Studies, University of Buenos Aires). She has worked on Latin American social movements and in recent years has been researching the social and cultural memories of state and social violence in dialogue with stage and audiovisual creations, humanitarian narratives, and transfeminisms.

As a preliminary reading and to stimulate conversation, we share excerpts from the book published in 2025 by Tren en Movimiento, as well as the recent interview conducted by Verónica Perera with Lili Cabrera, published in Arbor in 2026.

The meeting will be in a hybrid format (in-person/virtual). For those unable to attend in person, here is the Zoom link to connect to the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86124729955?pwd=kK0fQqa8I2470dqNAKuB4AG5qF9YwG.1