What is entre—ríos?
entre—ríos is a confluence of projects that explores continuities between bodies of water and human bodies, recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory. We believe in the power of artistic practices as catalysts for collaborative experiments that connect us to the environment and to each other.
We put into circulation ways of knowing and feeling bodies of water through creative methodologies and flow systems that create deltas of knowledge where arts and sciences, communities and institutions meet. Like a river, we connect to trace hydrographies that cross national borders and watersheds.
Our digital platform
entre—ríos has always insisted on the body as a means of producing knowledge. The pandemic changed our dynamics, isolating us and deepening the porosity of our membranes. We needed other forms to bring us close to bodies of water despite the distance.
entre-rios.net hosts all our curatorial, educational and dissemination projects but began as a curatorial project with Emilio Chapela and Diego Chocano during the Covid pandemic.
Curatorial channels for art research
With Emilio and Diego, we commissioned a group of artists to carry out projects in relation to three watersheds, the Bogotá River in Colombia, the Rímac in Peru, and the Usumacinta in Mexico. We met twice a week every fortnight to share research on these bodies of water, listening to activists, scientists and scholars.
At the end of 2020, we launched the site with art-research projects by twenty artists and began dissemination campaigns to share them more widely. Since then, the digital projects have been part of our teaching in Colombia, Peru, the UK and US. Student projects that “navigate” the platform then feed forward into new projects —essays, podcasts, embodied practices, photography and seeds for future projects— that we edit and publish in the section Navegaciones.
