Clara Balaguer

cultural worker

Clara Balaguer (Makati City, Pisces Metal Monkey) is a cultural worker, curriculum builder, and grey-literature circulator.

From 2010 to 2018, she articulated cultural programming with rural, peri-urban, and diasporic communities from the Philippines through the OCD, a living room residency program and cultural unit. In 2013, she cofounded Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage industry publishing hauz that operated from Parañaque, Portland, Laguna, and New York. Currently, she co-convenes the Civic Praxis program at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and teaches at the Experimental Publishing Department at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Frequently, she operates under collective or individual aliases that disclose her stewardship in projects, the latest of which is To Be Determined.