mahewa is an interdisciplinary incubator. It is an entity that approaches the complexities of the world and its human beings.

It has different shapes, all focused on research-based projects and investigations with artistic and audiovisual production. It helps develop projects whose practices are anchored in socio-political context, investigation, and critique.

mahewa supports ideas and researchers who are unconventional, often considered too weird. It helps bring them to life; it focuses on finding your own identity aligned with in-depth critical thinking, political positioning, and aesthetic establishment.

It focuses on creators who choose to act critically on society, through individual or community projects, self-reflexive and autoethnographic-autobiographical themes, or more classic investigative ones, all embedded in a sociopolitical, human, and economic critique. It supports individuals and associations, collectives, or enterprises, whether linked to or unaffiliated with institutions.

It supports researchers at all stages. It offers mentorship for fieldwork-based research methodologies in their various forms, such as text-articles-research-proposal-thesis-books redaction, linear and non-linear writing practices, audiovisual production, including documentaries, docufictions, performance, and video art, multimedia installations, and curatorial projects.

It focuses but it doesn’t only depend on decolonial, feminist, black urban studies, diaspora, and migration; it is specialized in the Majority World (term coined by Shahidul Alam referring to countries and populations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as an empowering alternative to older labels like “Third World” or “Global South”) in situ and global criticism.

It offers support in ethnography, embodied and experimental qualitative methodologies, cultural studies, visual studies, visual languages composition, soundscaping, curatorial studies, art-based research, research-led art, performance studies, extractivism, black, gender studies and disability studies.

mahewa runs conferences and educational workshops, develops curatorial projects, and supports social sciences and artistic investigations. It offers a series of podcasts featuring interviews with plurilingual professionals.

It is fundamentally interested in expanding its own horizons through new, stimulating collaborations and professional exchanges that counter the sense of competition and isolation among creators and social investigators, in order to build healthy and supportive relationships. It finally challenges obstacles, censorship, and power expectations, exploring creativity and social criticism.