My writing has evolved over the last twenty years from poetic to academic to curatorial to epistolary to dramaturgical to where it comfortably stands now as fictocriticism. It was during the writing of my PhD exegesis that I came across this genre that blends ethnographic observation and interviews, archival history, literary theory, fact, fiction, and memoir. Independent chapters of my thesis were published in different formats and types of publications, such as: an essay in Third Text (special issue on Decolonization in Latin American Art), an epistolary exchange between Selk’nam poet Hema’ny Molina, gender studies scholar Nina Lykke and me in the Australian Feminist Studies Journal (special issue on Queer Death Studies), a poetic ode in the Melbourne-based art journal Discipline, a denunciatory fiction in the Brooklyn Rail/River Rail, and as a book chapter on emancipatory possibilities in a Palgrave-Macmillan reader on post-capitalism.
Since 2016, I have received creative writing support from the editor of the book Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (Routledge, 2014). Nina Lykke and I met in an otherworldly scenario, in the depths of a decommissioned nuclear reactor in the center of Stockholm that has been repurposed as a performance space. Our meeting led to a joint inquiry into the retelling of cancer stories (Lykke lost her partner due to lung cancer and I came close to cancer death due to non-hodgkin's lymphoma), and we have to date presented our work as performance lectures at the University of Sydney, Linköping University, Universidad de Chile, and the University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden. In addition to publishing journal articles, we are in the final stages of review of a manuscript for a book we’ve titled Sandcastles: A Queer Femme Proposition. The book explores waves of stories thematizing the horrors of cancer as well as queer resistances to these horrors from critical ecopolitical perspectives.
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Camila Marambio writes for Terremoto about The Current IV: Caribbean (other mountains, adrift beneath the waves) a curatorial project directed by yina jiménez suriel for TBA21, whose extended programming convened last December in the Dominican Republic. Convening # Emancipation, opacity, and movements that transform from the mountains.
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“En el pantano todo se hunde. Se hunde la bota y es ácido el olor. Los colores del suelo no parecen corresponder a materias conocidas; el resplandor petróleo, el caramelo quemado, los grises verdores estriados no dan pistas claras sobre qué es tierra, agua, aire, anfibio, corteza y sustancia intermedia de la descomposición”.
En este ensayojuego, escrito junto a Carla Macchiavello, se propone a quien lee elegir su propia aventura. Esta hiperficción presenta distintos trayectos por algunas de las capas espacio-temporales de Ensayos, una práctica de investigación que desde el año 2011 trabaja en la reflexión y toma de decisiones en torno a asuntos relacionados a la ecología política de Tierra del Fuego y otros archipiélagos.
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Poetic text co-authored with agustine zegers for the publication Odorant Peatlands / Turberas Olorosas: the edition includes four scent vials as well as a booklet with texts by Hsuan L. Hsu and Kashina.
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A poem recounting a dinner I curated for Convivial Tables: The Cross Between Food And Ecology, edited by María Montero Sierra and Barbara Nardacchione, available online on TBA21 and Ocean Space website.
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A speculative eco fiction written for the public program Walking with Water. Serbia: Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, curated by organized by Biljana Ćirić and Balkan Projects.
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An essay co-authored with Ariel Bustamante for Soot Breathe // Corpus Infinitum a newspaper edited by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman for their exhibition Elemental Cinema at Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver: Canada.
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A book chapter co-authored with Indigenous Selk’nam poet Hema’ny Molina and ecologist Dr. Bárbara Saavedra for Post-Capitalist Futures, edited by Samuel Alexander, Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, and Brendan Gleeson. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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A conversation with Cecilia Vicuña for Balcony Magazine issue 02, New York.
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A book chapter co-authored with gender studies scholar Nina Lykke, for Sex Ecologies, edited by Stefanie Hessler and Katja Aglert. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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A book chapter for Una cartografía extraña. Producciones narrativas entre la migración y el arte, edited by Lucía Egaña Rojas and Paulina E. Varas. Santiago de Chile: Metales pesados.
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An essay co-authored with artist Carolina Caycedo for Oceans Rising, edited by Daniela Zyman. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press.
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An article co-authored with artist Caitlin Franzmann, for Multinaturalism, Issue 8 of Art + Australia Journal, edited by Tessa Laird.
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An article co-authored with gender studies scholar Nina Lykke, KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture #28, Melbourne, AU.
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A bilingual epilogue to Cumbre Aconcagua, Cisnero’s Institute, MoMA.
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An co-authored essay with art historian Greg Lehman, descendant from the Trawulwuy people of north east Tasmania. Garland Magazine, online publication.
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A co-authored essay with gender scholar Nina Lykke and Indigenous Selk’nam activist Hema’ny Molina, Australian Feminist Studies Journal 35(104): 186-201.
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A fictocritical essay on my love for an archipelago, Third Text Journal (June 2020). London, UK: Routledge.
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Interdisciplinary print periodical chronicling scholarship associated with Ensayos, co-edited with art historian Carla Macchiavello. Issues #1, 2, and 3 published by Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), BHQFU (New York) and Discipline (Melbourne), respectively. Contributors include Macarena Gomez-Barris, Ursula LeGuin, Astrida Neimanis, Juan Downey, Laura Ogden, Alejandra Mancilla, Giuliana Furci, and many more.
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Co-authored definition for the Environmental Humanities Living Lexicon, Environmental Humanities Journal (12(1): 173-178). Duke, NC: Duke University Press.
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PhD exegesis in Curatorial Practice from Monash Art Design and Architecture (October 2019), Melbourne, AU.
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A co-authored book with the poet Cecilia Vicuña. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press.
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A co-authored essay with ecologist Dr. Bárbara Saavedra for Movimientos de Tierra, edited by Pedro Donoso. Barcelona: Polígrafa.
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A short reflection on why Cecilia Vicuña’s Pantera Negra y Yo (Black Panther and Me) is not just a painting.
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An interdisciplinary paper co-authored with artist Christy Gast and biologists Derek Córcoran and Giorgia Graells on the results of the scent experiments realized at the Institute of Art and Olfaction, published in INTERCOURSE Magazine 5. Pioneer Works, NYC.
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A brief essay co-authored with Tessa Laird published by the online magazine Garland.
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A short reflection for the exhibition Second Home published by the online magazine Garland.
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Entry for “An Incomplete Glossary of Latin America,” in United States of Latin America, ed. Jens Hoffman (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016). p. 100-101.
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For The Miami Rail (fall and spring issues). Miami, FL.
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For The Miami Rail (fall and spring issues). Miami, FL.
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For The Miami Rail (fall and spring issues). Miami, FL.
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For The Miami Rail (fall and spring issues). Miami, FL.
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A brief reflection on the beginnings of Ensayos, published in La Panera, Santiago, Chile.
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