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
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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
1 Primera enseñanza. El agua no es el agua, es el canto del agua. Del agua y sus criaturas. El canto del oído que la oye silencioso. Crecí escuchando el canto de la acequia desde la cuna, arrullada por sapitos de cuatro ojos que calculaban el cambio de la luz. Apenas caía el sol, empezaban a cantar. Su canto y la ... read more -
04/28/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
In ontological terms, what does it mean to say "we are all bodies of water"? In what ways can we notice the flows and structures of the hydrocommons in specific places we inhabit? And, how does hydrofeminism shape your practice? read more -
04/27/2024
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Liquid Pedagogies
From Giuseppe Penone's practice and the Amazonian swirls to Walter Benjamin; from the work of Davi de Jesus do Nascimento and Josué de Castro; from Manguebeat to the schools of the mangrove and the Atlantic Ocean in the work of Susana Pilar, Beatriz Nascimento, and Édouard Glissant, we propose a way to think about ... 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
Lisa Blackmore: It’s been almost a decade since you wrote your MFA thesis BE DAMMED at the University of Southern California, which has become the central pulse of your practice. Reading your thesis, it seems to me that it achieves something that many artist-researchers and people working in Environmental Humanities ... read more -
04/23/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
In understanding that a plan to exterminate the diversity of life that inhabits this region can only be carried out due to a lack of dissemination of information, presence, familiarity, and public affection toward these waters, our task as a collective is centered on designing the necessary tools to collect and ... 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
These are contributions to thinking about water not only as a "natural resource," but as a common good that unites stories, crossings, and breaths of life and memories. The text also contributes ways of producing expanded knowledge in art and shelter in the face of the climate crisis, which is a social, political, and ... read more -
04/20/2024
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Artistic Practices for Living Waters
These gestures are a cross between the foundational myth of native Amazonian peoples—such as the Tukano and the Shipibo—about the serpent-canoe, and the concept of hydrofiction. The myth’s serpent is a canoe and a womb that populates the banks of large rivers and also carries the bodies of dead humans back to the ... 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