Essays

Enter Sacred Futurities

Lineadeluz

At the center of a rocky, desert landscape two hands appear from behind a large stone as if to embrace it.

New Choreographies with/in the Land: On Spider Woman’s Embrace

Xavier Robles Armas

A man kneels in front of a fire conducting a performance piece while spectators on either side look on.

Against Ruination: Building Sacred Futurities
rafa esparza’s building: a simulacrum of power (2014)

Abeyami Ortega Dominguez

Sacred Migrations: Gestating the Border

Erika Hirugami

The Border as Sacred Entity in the Work of Celia Álvarez Muñoz

Itayecxi Álvarez

Welded steel sculpture shaped like a fragmented volcano with undulating, textured surfaces against an open sky.

Songs of steel and current. Deep listening to Beatriz Cortez’s Speculative Archive of Earth and Migration

Paulina Ascencio Fuentes

(Un) tethered Materiality: The Fabric of a Fraught Landscape

Olga U. Herrera

Two red Schwinn bicycles bearing American and Puerto Rican flags are connected by a shared back wheel and face opposing directions. They are positioned in front of a pale blue neon sign reading “Pa-lan-te”.

Riding in Place: Miguel Luciano’s Double Phantom/EntroP.R., (Un)tethered Diasporas, and Anti-Colonialism

Anna Indych-López

Made of Traces: Diasporic (Re)Assemblies in Terrestrial Bodies

Clara Maria Apostolatos

A film still in black and white shows two feet in a pair of low-heeled white shoes against a desert landscape.

With All Her Belongings: The Diasporic Middle Ground in Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera’s Zozobra

Jamie L. Ratliff