researcher. curator. educator.
I specialize in water cultures and water justice movements in Latin America. My practice spans interdisciplinary research, curatorial projects, digital humanities, 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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New publication – “How to eat a river: Metabolic Literacies, Curatorial Practice and Cultures of Care” in eco-operations
Read more: New publication – “How to eat a river: Metabolic Literacies, Curatorial Practice and Cultures of Care” in eco-operationsBy sharing experiences we witnessed of daily care for the watershed’s ecosystems, its organic vegetable plots, seed banks and community spaces, “How to eat a river” maps a different reality of one of the world’s most polluted rivers,…
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SEEKCommons, 7-8 December, 2024, UC Berkeley
Read more: SEEKCommons, 7-8 December, 2024, UC BerkeleyI recently had an incredible opportunity to get intensive feedback from a range of digital commons experts on how to support transitions to a care- and commons-oriented water culture in this polluted watershed through our organizing and communications…
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Book launch for Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin America
Read more: Book launch for Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin AmericaHappy to hear that this new publication, developed over the past four years, is finally out in the world! My chapter, “Imagining Post-Extractivist Futures,” explores how contemporary artistic, curatorial and collaborative projects are doing important critical and imaginative…