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 …
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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 …
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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.
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.
In November 2024, entre—ríos was invited to feature in a live podcast recording to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of independent journalism outlet, La Silla Vacía. Held in Bogotá, the event featured live talks with politicians and activists to discuss “acuerdos para el futuro de Colombia” —agreements for Colombia’s future on four topics, including water.
By 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, demonstrating how small-scale actions make a tangible difference and enable the imagination of alternative futures.
I 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 work with entre-ríos.
Happy 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 work both to expose the destructive logics of extractivism and to nurture relations and actions for postextractive …
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Crouching on the banks of the Bogotá River, after its serpentine path through Colombia’s capital city’s urban sprawl, the smell is overpowering. Islands of white foam sail by on a stream of black water, which navigates car tires, clothes and plastic containers, tangled layers of waste sedimented over time, making the riverbanks an archive of …
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When we eat, we are always eating landscapes. Water and chemicals flow into food, then into the microbes dining in our intestines, connecting us metabolically to ecosystems where food production takes place. This talk will reflect on food as a medium to cultivate awareness of hydrosocial interdependence and stimulate more equitable modes of coexistence, care, …
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