Education

Since 10/2026	Research residence  International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
Since 01/2025	Master in Art History at Autonomous National University of México (UNAM)
08/2019 – 07/2023	Bachelor in Art History at Autonomous National University of México (UNAM)

Work Experience

Since 05/2026	Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’ , Berlin
04/2023-05/2025	Researcher at Cosecha de Gestos. PAPIME DGAPA-UNAM PE404223 “Entre Campo y Campo: Operaciones, Prácticas, Gestos Pedagógicos entre Agrosilvicultura y Artes” PAPIME DGAPA-UNAM PE403124 “Poéticas Agrosilviculturales: Estrategias Situadas, Pedagogías y Artes para los Cultivos, las Soberanías Alimentarias y las Diversidades Vitales”
08/2023-12/2023	Assistant Professor in Contemporary Aesthetics in Michoacan University of Saint Nicolás Hidalgo
08/2023-12/2023	Assistant Professor in Biography and History in Autonomous National University of México
08/2023-12/2023	Intern at Revista Inflexiones
10/2019-03/2020	Intern at Centro Cultural Clavijero

Project: 'Relationships in artistic processes with vegetal species (2007-2017)'

Based on the comparative study of a diversity of artistic projects that occurred in Mexican territory (Perejil buscando al sol (2007) by Gilberto Esparza, Campos de convivencia (2010) by Guadalupe Chávez, Rizosfera FM (2016) by Colectiva Electrobiota y Germination (2017) by Alexis Martínez Gutiérrez), I will try to answer the next question: What is it that art prefigures, explores and inspires as an ethics of possibility – that is, as a mechanism that kindles horizons of the imagination which open up and work towards another kind of future horizons?

Through the revision of interviews and audiovisual documents, I want to suggest a methodology to describe that which art pre-figures and practices through its gestures and the relationships that it fosters. 

The aim is to argue that the plastic and speculative qualities of art enable us to work at a situated and micro-political level with relationships that do not yet exist, but which, paradoxically, have already come into being. I believe that through collaboration with plants in art, a relational condition emerges which lies on the margins of, and in tension with, the current mode of exploitation and production within the agroindustrial system. Thus, in my research I seek to highlight how artistic processes involving plants create a condition of possibility, intervening in the present to open up alternative future horizons. This research considers art as a suggestion of what our future relationships with plants might become.

Articles (selection)

Basurto Lucio, José Imanol (2026): “Contrabandear el disentimiento: "Atravesar el lago", Casa del Lago UNAM.” Onda, 14 de junio, 2026, https://ondamx.art/es/escrito/contrabandear-el-disentimiento-atravesar-el-lago-casa-del-lago-unam.

Basurto Lucio, José Imanol (2026): “Las artes del monocultivo y los cuidados en el arte: "Espacio vientre" de Delcy Morelos en el MUAC.” Onda, 8 de febrero, 2026, https://ondamx.art/es/escrito/las-artes-del-monocultivo-y-los-cuidados-en-el-arte-espacio-vientre-de-delcy-morelos-en-el-muac.

Basurto Lucio, José Imanol, David Gutierrez Castañeda, Ivett Peña-Azcona y Fernando Lomelí (2025): “Towards a Worldly Knowledge Making Between Situated Agroecological and Artistic Practices.” Zeszyty Artystyczne, no. 48:48-69.

Gutierrez Castañeda, David y José Imanol Basurto Lucio (2024): “Queer Gestures in the Garden: Gesture as an Articulator of Contacts, Relationships, and Other Sensibilities”, kritische berichte 52, no.3: 60-71.

Gutiérrez Castañeda, David y José Imanol Basurto Lucio (2024): “Algunos gestos artísticos para el Huerto Agroforestal Universitario”, LEISA Revista de Agroecología 38, no.3: 38-40.   

Basurto Lucio, José Imanol (2022): “Francisco Villa. Donde Como Cuando”, Inflexiones 10: 152-160.