Cuaderno de tareas / Work planner

Cuaderno de Tareas is a weekly, not year-specific, planner for invisible and unpaid labor, drawn from the unrealized vision of Mexican artist and activist Ana Victoria Jiménez and re-imagined by andrea ancira and Nina Hoechtl. While the planner addresses unseen labor, the book itself makes hidden work visible. It is intentionally left unfinished: untrimmed, uncovered, and raw.

Cuaderno de Tareas is an invitation to time travel, offering a passage through reproductive labour, protest, and archival memory drawn from Ana Victoria’s time-spanning archive of feminist protest in Mexico. Throughout its pages, the phrases and slogans of feminist demonstrations reappear as persistent reminders of ongoing cycles of violence, and of the enduring resistance against them. At the heart of the publication are photographs from Ana Victoria’s same named series Cuaderno de Tareas, which affirm the dignity and political power of the repetitive, relational work that defines care labour. Through its unfinished appearance, the planner itself exposes the unseen labour of bookmaking and asks the reader to cut open its sealed pages.

Originally conceived by Ana Victoria Jiménez in the 1980s for Colectivo Atabal, a civil association dedicated to recognising and valuing housework, the project was never realised due to limited resources—until now.

On November 23, 2025, Ana Victoria Jiménez passed away. Today, we honour how her legacy lives on in every act of resistance that draws strength from memory, and in every living archive that, like hers, helps us unlearn the imposed and imagine a world otherwise.

Published by Mark Pezinger Books

English/Spanish
Softcover with open-thread binding, uncut, uncovered, ribbon bookmark
192 pages
160 x 225 mm                                                                                                                                 ISBN 9783903353244