We’re excited to announce that this new collaborative volume will be out at the start of July. This book is part of an ongoing project of thinking with and experiencing bodies of water through aesthetic production, which began with a panel we convened at the Latin American Studies Association annual conference in Lima, Peru, in 2017. Following a workshop in Barcelona 2018, we began work on expanding these international conversations with colleagues into an edited book.
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art
Routledge, forthcoming July 2020
With contributions from Lisa Blackmore, Liliana Gomez, Adriana Johnson, Rory O’Bryen, Gina McDaniel Tarver, Giuliana Borea & Rember Yahuarcani, Esther Moñivas, Irene Depetris Chauvin, Elizabeth DeLoughrey & Tatiana Flores, Paul Merchant, Sophie Halart.
Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art is a new interdisciplinary volume that brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography, and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical, and cultural analytical contexts.
The dynamic movements of liquid run through this book in configurations and situations that reframe liquids and fluidity never as pure, abstract flow, but as contingent instances of contamination, overflow, counterflow, stasis, vortex, and reflux.
The contributions address a wide range of phenomena, probing the historical and political, cultural and environmental impacts of colonisation, urbanisation, and industrialisation in Latin America and the Caribbean through analyses of multimedia installations, performance, photography, film, poetry and testimony.
The chapters explore creative practice by a wide range of artists, poets and filmmakers, including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Clemencia Echeverri, Alicia Barney, Cecilia Vicuña, Carolina Caycedo, Enrique Ramírez, Tony Capellán, Tomás Maldonado, among others.
Tracing critical genealogies of liquids and fluidity, the book analyses aesthetic interventions that mobilise and recreate different fluids and flows to restage their absence, scarcity, vital materiality, and to rethink the relationships between periphery and metropolis, and their related forms of knowledge and knowledge practices.
The book traces cultural histories and analyses of hydrological phenomena and hydraulic projects centred on the engineering of bodies of water and consider shifts in their semantic, sensorial, and social orders amid contexts of political and environmental violence and conflict.
The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, environmental humanities, ecological humanities, blue humanities, ecocriticism, Latin American studies, and island studies.
Table of Contents
1 Beyond the Blue: Notes on the Liquid Turn
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez
Part I Liquid Epistemologies
2 Turbulent River Times: Art and Hydropower in Latin America’s Extractive Zones
Lisa Blackmore
3 Acts of Remaining: Liquid Ecologies and Memory Work in Contemporary Art Interventions
Liliana Gómez
4 An Expanse of Water: How to Know Water Through Film
Adriana Michéle Campos Johnson
Part II (De)Colonised Flows
5 Untangling the Mangrove: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor in the Colombian Caribbean
Rory O’Bryen
6 “The Roar of the River Grows Ever Louder”: Polluted Waters in Colombian Eco-Art, From Alicia Barney to Clemencia Echeverri
Gina Mcdaniel Tarver
7 Amazonian Waterway, Amazonian Water Worlds: Rivers in Government Projects and Indigenous Art
Giuliana Borea and Rember Yahuarcani
Part III Fluid Memories
8 Water, Women and Action Art in Latin America: Materializing Ecofeminist Epistemologies
Esther Moñivas
9 Memories in the Present: Affect and Spectrality in Contemporary Aquatic Imaginaries
Irene Depetris Chauvin
Part IV Bodies of Water
10 Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art
Elizabeth Deloughrey and Tatiana Flores
11 Cecilia Vicuña’s Liquid Indigeneity
Paul Merchant
12 “A Water of a Hundred Eyes”: Reconfiguring Liquidity
Sophie Halart
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