RECENT EVENTS… – Lisa Blackmore

Meander, Erode, Flow: Sharing new research on digital rivers in art from Latin America

by Lisa March 23, 2026March 23, 2026No Comments

Which practices probe critically rivers’ datafication by digital tools and question the enclosure of its processes and outputs? Looking forward to this fantastic event, convened by Amanda Smith (UC Santa Cruz) and Javier Uriarte (Stony Brook) in early April. The event is part of an in-progress edited book that Amanda and Javier have been developing …

Global Waterways: Sharing research on “perfomative hydraulics” at Stony Brook University

by Lisa March 23, 2026No Comments

Hydrocommoning Through Pumping: Performative Hydraulics in São Paulo’s Urban Rivers In this paper, I develop the concept of “hydrocommoning” to examine how artistic and activist practices reconfigure human–water relations in São Paulo. I situate these practices within the city’s hydraulic history: from Indigenous habitation along the Tamanduateí to twentieth-century channelization, river reversal, and stream burial …

Lanzamiento en Buenos Aires: Momentum: Arte y ecología en la América Latina contemporánea (MoMA/Caja Negra, 2026)

by Lisa March 19, 2026March 23, 2026No Comments

Momentum: Arte y ecología en la América Latina contemporánea, es un proyecto del Instituto Cisneros del Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York. Una versión ampliada de este libro se publicó en inglés por MoMA en 2024. Es español, la edición es de Caja Negra. Este libro invita a pensar América Latina como un laboratorio …

New book chapter: Tequendama Falls

by Lisa February 20, 2026No Comments

Happy that this text which combines an analysis of Salto del Tequendama (2021), by Emilio Chapela, with some cultural history of the Bogotá River, is now out. Tequendama Falls is a breathtaking body of water, a cascade of more than 150 meters that tumbles over a precipice. Emilio and I have been in collaboration since …

Nuevo libro: Cómo volver al río (2025)

by Lisa September 1, 2025February 15, 2026No Comments

Durante 2024, desde entre—ríos convocamos a cuidadores y cuidadoras del río Bogotá a compartir cuatro convites de río. Nos juntamos en diferentes lugares de la cuenca alta y media: en la vereda Tenería en Suesca, en el Humedal Tibabuyes en Bogotá, en El Charquito en Soacha, y en el Espacio Odeón en Bogotá, para seguir evocando y …

Image of sign saying Cuidemos el agua - let's care for water.

New article: Hydrocommoning, Environmental Humanities Glossary

by Lisa August 10, 2025February 15, 2026No Comments

I was grateful to receive the invitation from Ulrik Ekman to contribute to the Environmental Humanities Glossary. It was an opportunity to publish a short piece on the concept of hydrocommoning, the title of my forthcoming book with University of Minnesota Press, and to think through Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Theory of Water, which I had …

New article! Art for the Hydrocommons, Environmental Humanities, Vol.17

by Lisa April 16, 2025April 16, 2025No Comments

I’m grateful to Tania, Mabe, Ana Teresa and Rafael for being in conversation to help me think through their works. To download the article, which is open access, visit the journal’s website. This article elucidates a select corpus of contemporary artworks from Latin America as art for the hydrocommons by showing how they make generative …

“Justicia metabólica,” podcast con Sophie Chao en Humanidades Ambientales

by Lisa March 12, 2025March 12, 2025No Comments

Fue un placer conversar con Sophie Chao sobre la justicia metabólica, concepto que une nuestro trabajo pensando en las relaciones entre comunidades y ecosistemas que pasan por el cuidado de los cuerpos-territorios. Fuimos convocadas por Humanidades Ambientales, un colectivo que desde hace varios años promueve los diálogos y las conexiones regionales en torno a cuestiones …

Nos toca hablar del agua, presentation for Cuerpo Enjambre, Bogotá, 6.3.25

by Lisa February 11, 2025February 11, 2025No Comments

Offering this talk was a way to share, through a performance lecture, a series of gestures of thinking somatically, or we could say, thinking-feeling, through which we move between the very intimate and personal towards the common and shared, giving form to an affective and relational liquid ecology.

Communities of Affinity for Stressed Rivers, EDGES Lab, University of British Columbia, 3.2.25

by Lisa February 11, 2025February 11, 2025No Comments

I had a the pleasure of sharing with the EDGES Lab led by Professor Leila Harris at the University of British Columbia recently and was thrilled to learn more about the common ground between research being done by Lab members and our processes with entre—ríos.