Hand drawn illustrations of river ecosystem

New article: Commoning a “Dead” River in Colombia: Assessing Collaborative Research and Curatorial Methodologies through the RÍO BOGOTÁ Project

How do we know whether our curatorial methodologies with entre—ríos’ RÍO BOGOTÁ project generate change among participants? Grounded in theory of change literature and practice, and geared toward evaluating specific project objectives and methodologies, this article presents an assessment methodology comprising interviews and focus groups to trace transformations occurring at different scales.

New publication on NYU’s MoTH project site: The river is not dead

Restoring human relationships with rivers must focus on local agency and ecological entanglement, not just large-scale industrial intervention. With Laura Giraldo-Martínez and Juliana Steiner, we wrote a short blog post for NYU’s More-than-Human-Rights project, an interdisciplinary initiative advancing rights and well-being for humans, nonhumans, and the web of life that sustains us all. “The river …

photograph of the exhibition Humid Traces

Keynote: Hydrocommoning – Practices of Care and Connection to and through Water

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 …

Captura de pantalla del sitio web de entre-rios.net/rio-bogota

Día del Río Bogotá: reportaje sobre entre—ríos

Nos entrevistó la periodista Sara Medellín para esta nota publicada en el Día del Río Bogotá para activar conversaciones sobre la necesidad de la recuperación del río a través del saneamiento e infraestructura, y a su vez la tarea de reconstruir vínculos colectivos, memoria ambiental y nuevas formas de habitar el territorio alrededor del agua. …

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

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

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)

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 …

Nuevo libro: Cómo volver al río (2025)

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

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 …