ABSTRACT

This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical and cultural analytical contexts.

The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, cultural studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities, ecocriticism, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and island studies.

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com

chapter 1|10 pages

Beyond the Blue

Notes on the Liquid Turn

part I|59 pages

Liquid Epistemologies

chapter 2|22 pages

Turbulent River Times

Art and Hydropower in Latin America's Extractive Zones

chapter 4|16 pages

An Expanse of Water

How to Know Water Through Film

part II|54 pages

(De)Colonised Flows

chapter 5|16 pages

Untangling the Mangrove

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor in the Colombian Caribbean

chapter 6|17 pages

“The Roar of the River Grows Ever Louder”

Polluted Waters in Colombian Eco-Art, From Alicia Barney to Clemencia Echeverri

chapter 7|19 pages

Amazonian Waterway, Amazonian Water-Worlds

Rivers in Government Projects and Indigenous Art

part III|35 pages

Fluid Memories

chapter 8|17 pages

Water, Women and Action Art in Latin America

Materializing Ecofeminist Epistemologies

chapter 9|16 pages

Memories in the Present

Affect and Spectrality in Contemporary Aquatic Imaginaries 1

part IV|61 pages

Bodies of Water

chapter 10|24 pages

Submerged Bodies

The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art

chapter 12|17 pages

“A Water of a Hundred Eyes”

Reconfiguring Liquidity in Recent Chilean Contemporary Art 1