researcher. curator. educator.
I specialize in water cultures and water justice movements in Latin America. My practice spans interdisciplinary research, curatorial projects, journalism, and public engagement, developed through sustained collaborations with activists, artists, scholars, and students.
About me
Since 2018, I’ve been the founder director of the international platform entre—ríos, working to connect communities to bodies of water in Latin America. I have more than fifteen years’ experience designing, directing, and delivering curatorial projects, audiovisual productions, editorial projects and public programs in Latin America and Europe. I’m currently Visiting Scholar Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Essex, UK. I’m a passionate runner, reader and cook, but happiest when I’m in water!
entre—ríos
entre—ríos is a confluence of projects that explores continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory. Through workshops, exhibitions, publications that connect art, science and communities, we strive for water cultures with care and collaboration at their heart.
WHAT I DO…
I’ve always believed that research should stretch beyond university walls. My current work is devoted to cultivating creative collaborations between rivers, communities, and institutions in Latin America to shape public debates about bodies of water. My earlier research examined archives of authoritarianism and political violence in the Caribbean. Click on the links below to find out more and access key publications.
Nadar es nacer nuevamente ~ TO SWIM IS TO BE BORN AGAIN
Me conmueve ~ I’m moved by
todo lo que es húmedo ~ everything that is wet
o lo que parece imposible ~ or by what seems possible
y es solamente azul ~ but is just blue
Jorge Eielson, Otros poemas sin título (free translation)
Latest News…
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Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas, UC Santa Cruz
Read more: Mapping Hydrocommons Cultures in the Americas, UC Santa CruzWe’re grateful to Prof. Amanda Smith from UC Santa Cruz for the invitation to give the inaugural session of the brand new More-than-human(ities) Laboratory. In this session, we’ll talk about a series of mapping processes that we’ve been…
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How can art support more just human-water relations?
Read more: How can art support more just human-water relations?ESPM Fall Seminar Series 2024 I’ll be sharing in-progress research at this upcoming research seminar as part of my time as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC California, Berkeley, where I’m…
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Digital Confluences: Online Rivers, Mischief and Conspirations
Read more: Digital Confluences: Online Rivers, Mischief and ConspirationsThis coming Monday 26 August, I’ll be taking part in this open session, where rivers, art, and science flow together in creative ways, organised by the Home Rivers Bio Blitz team, who each year coordinate a global citizen…