From receding glaciers, via polluted rivers to fragile wetlands, rising water stresses across the world are impelling communities to foster more respectful and sustainable water cultures. Drawing on fieldwork, archival research, and curatorial projects across Latin America, this talk proposes “hydrocommoning” as a conceptual horizon for creative practices that nurture connections and coalitions around bodies of water. A map of projects from the region shows how artists, curators, and communities are confronting legacies of harm with regenerative practices that combine aesthetic forms, territorial care, infrastructural interventions, connecting embodied experience to action.
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Transverse Waves, is a series of events in conjunction with our current exhibition Humid Traces, curated by Federico Pérez Villoro. The public program will continue to explore how waterways are forced to perform as borders. Considering the ripple effects on water surfaces when one throws a stone onto a lake, the program is organized around the affective circles that surround the artists included in the exhibition. It is a space to consider how artistic research can actively fortify networks of solidarity and strengthen ongoing dialogues and collaborations.