LA ESCUELA___ JOURNAL is an academic digital publication dedicated to addressing current environmental and sociocultural challenges in Latin America from artistic research.
N° 1 – 2024
Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Care Practices across the Americas.
Lisa Blackmore & Alejandro Ponce de León, editors.
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05/01/2024
JOURNAL 1
Contents
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04/30/2024
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Presentation
Attending to water as a supportive and connective fluid is an urgent challenge for the collective flourishing of life on the planet. We need actions that overflow the usual languages of water while enhancing other sensitivities that help us remember our shared state of immersion [...] read more -
04/29/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
4 To sense water in us is to feel what unites us to all that is. The role of water in photosynthesis is to supply electrons for the light reactions. Water is us. We are water. Seeking light. Water hears us. “We are water” says the soul, and people say: “We are water protectors against the oil pipelines.”* El agua ... read more -
04/28/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
LB: Knowing that some readers might not be familiar with your work (yet), I wondered if we might start with some insights into these key concepts at the heart of your work: bodies of water, the more-than-human hydrocommons , and hydrofeminism . In ontological terms, what does it mean to say "we are all bodies of ... read more -
04/27/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
This essay explores the relationship between waterscapes, artistic practices and ways of thinking that move imaginaries, memories and ontologies. Through the analysis of works by contemporary artists, following the flow of water from the river to the mangrove and from the mangrove to the sea, we suggest a reflection ... read more -
04/26/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
What does reed teach us about hydrocommons? This text explores the rich knowledge I have gained through interaction with the common reed ( Phragmites australis) and my intention to share it through weaving workshops. Engaging in the learning process with this plant creates a sensory connection that highlights the ... read more -
04/25/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
Throughout the process, we sought to catalyze feeling-thinking with the waters through different artistic approaches, in order to contribute to the promotion and weaving of hydrocosmic cultures between bodies of water. In the following pages, we share how the laboratory was created and carried out, and we reflect on ... read more -
04/24/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
CC: [...] Right now, it’s important to think about global connection, not in terms of globalization but in terms of solidarity. [...] This motivates me a lot too: how can we, from contemporary art, accompany processes of struggle and resistance, of environmental justice? How can we create images to accompany those ... read more -
04/23/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
We are working on the “Comprehensive Master Plan WITH the Salado River Basin,” which responds to the ongoing official plan of modification and topographic depredation, focusing on the touching stories that the inhabitants of this region trace with the river. In understanding that a plan to exterminate the diversity of ... read more -
04/22/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
In this “essay-game,” the reader is encouraged to choose their own adventure. This hyperfiction presents different paths through some of the space-time layers of Ensayos, a research practice that since 2011 reflects and exercises decision-making about issues related to the political ecology of Tierra del Fuego and ... read more -
04/21/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
In this writing exercise, we set out to think about ways of dancing the landscapes and the bodies that inhabit them, focusing on the infrastructures of exclusion created in the Brazilian colonial context. The project's cartography emerges as a possible method of research and production of a present-day history, based ... read more -
04/20/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
Primitiva Afluencia [Primitive Affluence] (2020 - 2023) is a triptych of the living arts crossed by the autoethnography of labor and birth. It is a three-act hydrofiction composed of hydrofeminist textualities. The story manufactures a bio-woman with marigold skin, whose power is to alleviate river channels with ... read more -
04/19/2024
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Ecocritical Panoramas in Amphibious Worlds
The essay considers the representation of the ocean in the work of Caribbean artists and writers, including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dionne Brand, Édouard Glissant, Juana Valdés, Nadia Huggins, and Suchitra Mattai. It takes as a point of departure the critique of Western humanism and its purported universal ... read more -
04/18/2024
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Ecocritical Panoramas in Amphibious Worlds
This article aims to disseminate the work that Ariel Guzik and his team have done around communication with marine animals by means of the instrument-machines they develop. In an attempt to raise awareness of certain ecological issues among different audiences, the hope is that a gradual articulation of these issues ... read more -
04/17/2024
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Ecocritical Panoramas in Amphibious Worlds
Maria Thereza Alves, Cocina CoLaboratorio, and Ogimaa Mikana have created projects that harness public intervention and community-based practices to draw attention to the lesser-known stories of watersheds with the hope that this will lead to social mobilization in defense of overexploited natural resources. ... read more -
04/16/2024
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Ecocritical Panoramas in Amphibious Worlds
It proposes that the piece works as a hydrofeminist figuration—in other words, a conceptual and material meditation on the possibility to understand ourselves in more-than-human communities, which allows us to map the intra-actions that enable the constitution of a hydro-community risen from histories of colonization, ... read more -
04/15/2024
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Actions toward Hydrocommons Ecologies and Economies
This text explains the dynamics and relationships between the Maya K'iche community of Chichicastenango and water, as well as access to it through self-management and its care under ancestral logic and the Mayan worldview. read more -
04/14/2024
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Actions toward Hydrocommons Ecologies and Economies
Through field studies, interviews, and theoretical research, I have created a body of visual work using various materials from the area to observe the processes of transformation, erosion, and degradation caused by agrochemicals and other human action. How to delineate a boundary or border in an inherently aquatic ... read more -
04/13/2024
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Actions toward Hydrocommons Ecologies and Economies
The story begins with two key university experiences at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2018 and the University of Toronto in 2019. Students focused their studies intently on water as a common resource, and ways to both stretch its presence in the territory and take better advantage of it. Strategies include ... read more -
04/12/2024
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Actions toward Hydrocommons Ecologies and Economies
In this article, we collect part of the learnings from fifteen days of workshops, where we tuned in with the forest in the following ways: we filled dozens of bags with soil in the Vivero de Tebanca to imagine a hydrocommon horizon from the tequio (collective work); we emulated the music of plants; we wrote their ... read more -
04/11/2024
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This Hydrocommons Map compiles an index of actions that span research, activism, and dissemination strategies, with the aim of establishing parameters to track, connect, and contrast emerging and established projects in the region. Each project is presented as an individual record. The categories of actions come ... read more