Book launch for Momentum: Art & Ecology in Contemporary Latin America

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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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Hydrocommoning, Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz

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In this talk, I presented ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. I laid out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied …

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How can art support more just human-water relations?

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I’ll be sharing in-progress research at this research seminar as part of my time as Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC California, Berkeley, where I’m working with Prof. Michael Mascarenhas. I’m going to be talking about the expanding map of coalitions forming across Latin America that are connecting …

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