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A series of presentations exploring the industrialization of water in the context of rising temperatures and meteorological crises. The evening will kick off with the Los Pleneros de la 21 ensemble, and feature a keynote by interdisciplinary scholar and curator Lisa Blackmore; a dialogue between Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Xenia Rubinos reflecting on artistic collaboration, solidarity, and engagement with migrant communities in New York from Puerto Rico; and a sound-based performance by COLECTIVO WeReBeRe (Esmeralda Ramírez and Leonel Vásquez).

Transverse Waves is a series of events in conjunction with our current exhibition Humid Traces, curated by Federico Pérez Villoro. The public program will continue to explore how waterways are forced to perform as borders. Considering the ripple effects on water surfaces when one throws a stone onto a lake, the program is organized around the affective circles that surround the artists included in the exhibition. It is a space to consider how artistic research can actively fortify networks of solidarity and strengthen ongoing dialogues and collaborations.

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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, Lisa Blackmore proposes "hydrocommoning" as a conceptual horizon for creative practices that nurture connections and coalitions around bodies of water. A map of projects from the region shows how artists, curators, and communities are confronting legacies of harm with regenerative practices that combine aesthetic forms, territorial care, infrastructural interventions, connecting embodied experience to political action.

Lisa Blackmore is Professor of Spanish and Director of the Digital Humanities Center at the University of Virginia. Her research, curatorial practice, and pedagogy probe water cultures in art and collective action. Since 2019, she has directed entre—ríos, a confluence of arts-led projects that explores continuities between bodies of water, human bodies and territories, recognizing rivers as active subjects that produce aesthetic forms, transform landscapes and shape memory. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Hydrocommons Cultures: Art, Pedagogy and Practices of Care Across the Americas, LA ESCUELA__JOURNAL. Her forthcoming monograph Hydrocommoning (University of Minnesota Press, 2027) shows how art addresses legacies of hydrocolonialism and modernization, confronts contemporary water stresses, and supports community organizing around bodies of water.