Lisa Blackmore

Lisa Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. A specialist in Latin American Cultural Studies, Lisa works at the intersections of practice and research, combining writing on the arts, ecology and memory with curatorial and audiovisual projects. In 2018 she founded the interdisciplinary research group entre—ríos, which stimulates connections to bodies of water through art practice and research. She is the author of Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space and Visuality in Venezuela 1948-1958 (2017), co-director of the documentary Después de Trujillo (2016), and co-editor of Downward Spiral: El Helicoide’s Descent from Mall to Prison (2017) and Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape (2018), The Politics of Culture in the Chávez Era (2019), and Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (2020).