QUIKUCHÁ

I started inquiring about the ways we (re) create our journeys –and how they get carried through space. However uncertain it feels to witness our own story unfold in front of our eyes as it does, once we “come through” on the other side and look back on our footsteps, we are bound to find a sense of relief: “it all make sense now”.

Serendipity led me to meet artist Emily Housart during a residency at Swale House in NYC/Manahatta Land. I had just sailed with Luna –a 29′ sloop– from Providence, RI/Narragansett Land, and Emily was about to leave Governors Island after installing a bust of C.C. made out of clay, feces, and potatoes.

We found sinergy exploring how we choose to remember the past –understanding that doing so is a way of moving through the present. Ours materialized in watering Columbus’ bust with water from the East River.

Zack Kligler (they/them) a writer, researcher, and editor born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently living in Providence, Rhode Island. His areas of exploration include water, history, and the construction of global and local ecosystems of solidarity.

Kelton Ellis (he/him) is a writer and editor living in Providence, Rhode Island. His criticism, journalism, and editorial work have appeared in n+1, The Nation, and Boston Review.

Victoria Salsa Cortizo (she/her) is an Argentinean social anthropologist graduated from the Buenos Aires University. She has achieved a Doctorate degree in Medical Sciences from her ethnographic study of obstetricians in the Buenos Aires province. She is a fellow of the Commission for Scientific Investigation in Buenos Aires and the National Commission for Scientific and Technical Investigations in Argentina (CONICET). She currently teaches at the Medical Science Department of the National University of La Plata in the areas of community health and public health.

Ilze K. Berzins (she/her) is a trained ecologist, veterinarian, comparative pathologist and public health official who holds an interdisciplinary approach to her clinical, teaching, conservation and research practices focused around the concept of One Health. Ilze holds a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Biology from Stanford University, a PhD in Zoology from University of California, Berkeley, a DVM from the University of California, Davis, and a MPH from the University of Iowa. She is currently an aquatic health consultant through her personal program “One Water, One Health, LLC”.