
03/21/2025
Today at 5pm live from Dia Chelsea -
Swamp Summit: Dirt and Water examines the relationship between natural and built environments at the boundary where water meets land. Today’s event includes a reading by Mayan poet and water rights activist Pedro Uc Be; a keynote talk by linguist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil; a conversation between Uc Be and Aguilar Gil, moderated by artist Abraham Cruzvillegas; a reading from Season of the Swamp (Gray Wolf Press, 2024), set in the fictionalized murky soil of 1850s New Orleans, by novelist Yuri Herrera; artists Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan speak with artist Sky Hopinka about sensory and visual ethnographies; and artist collective Cooking Sections conclude the day with a lecture-performance on wetlands. Presented by and