Javier Arbona Homar, PhD

Category: Uncommonwealths

  • Canoas, cayucos y balsas

    Recent award, thanks to the Center for Craft in North Carolina! CANOAS, CAYUCOS Y BALSAS (CANOES, CAYUCOS AND RAFTS) Diego de la Cruz Gaitan, MAOF (Materiales y Oficios, or materials and crafts) Javier Arbona, Assistant Professor Canoas, Cayucos y Balsas is a materials and process research project for the construction prototypes of a fleet of Caribbean…

  • Resisting Debt and Colonial Disaster in Post-Maria Puerto Rico

    Guest editorial published: Marisol LeBrón & Javier Arbona. The Funambulist 16 (March-April 2018) – Proletarian Fortresses.

  • Received: A Universe of Fragile Mirrors from the Pérez museum

    In “Ecologies of Practices in a Post-Military Cinema,” an essay for the exhibition catalog, I draw on my research with artists in Puerto Rico working internationally. Here, I discuss the relationship between walking practices in post-military landscapes and the video art of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (BSM). For several years, I participated in “walking seminars” (and…

  • maneuver event

    Nibia Pastrana Santiago, choreographer and dancer, sends her new zine, “maniobra, bahía o el evento coreográfico.” Nibia’s work as a movement artist frequently scrutinizes the biases, knowledges, and metaphors of geographical thought. One often sees in her work a desire to trouble choreographic practice by playing it off of ideas about making or marking territories—and often…