Colaboraciones

• Revista alternativa de circulación underground, hecha a mano en La Habana de los 90's. Creadores: Mane Ferret, Alejandro Aragón, Eduardo Marín, Thays Valdés y Jacqueline Herranz.

3 número de la revista se pueden ver aquí 

• "New York Underground" is my collaboration piece with Leithal Music. It is our sound interpretation of a trip from home to work to the university and from there back home using the NYC subway system. This piece was a mix and an editing of a collection of sounds recorded during a year. "New York Underground" was first released in 2015, under the label Haze Netlabel, and published, the summer of 2018, in a selection of stories about mass transit underground experiences. The anthology, Los Topos Mecánicos, Ed. Igneo, was conceived by Raquel Abend and includes some New York based authors, who write in Spanish, and many others living in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Consume a Piece of Cuba Before.../ Consuma un pedazo de Cuba antes que...     A Collaborative socially-engaged performance by Margaret Vendryes and Jacqueline Herranz Brooks. This interactive experience is part of the South East Queens Artists Aliance (C)art Festival presented in Queens, a borough celebrated for its cultural diversity (2018). 

•  “Art Like Air and Water” is a mobile cart-based zine library and art book museum featuring micro publications (zines, art books, chapbooks, handmade journals, posters, etc.) by local artists and community members. On June 1st and 2nd, SEQAA presented the cart and booth to the public in a launch event at the Colosseum Mall on 165th street! During the launch weekend, SEQAA presented publications made by members, and invited visitors from the community to create their own zines and participate in activities including bookbinding, writing, collage, letter stamp art and drawing/coloring. After the first launch event, there was continued popups during each weekend in June and throughout the summer in various places like the Parsons Public Plaza, Rufus King Park, Central Queens Public Library, JCAL, and local festivals (2019).

Para confiar es un poema escalonado, para ser instaladado en una escalera. 

Texto: Jacqueline Herranz Brooks

Diseño: Natali Bravo-Barbee 

verano 2023

PTM Contemporary

Governors Island
(405-B Colonels Row Gallery)
New York, NY 11231

The Soo Poor Lesbian Landscape of the Soo Poor Cuban 90s. 

Media: Video animation, 2025 

Text and voice: Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks

Videography: Natalia Astuácas

The Soo Poor Lesbian Landscape of the Soo Poor Cuban 90s is an expanding transmedia project that traces—through memory and fiction—the figure of a poor Cuban lesbian in the 1990s. Set during the so-called Special Period—a decade marked by deep economic crisis, extreme scarcity, and daily blackouts in post-Soviet Cuba—the project reconstructs, from the margins, an intimate, embodied, and dissident narrative.

The original text was born as a response to a question posed to me by scholar and writer Mabel Cuesta for her research and creative writing course at the University of Houston: What did the Cuban lesbian landscape of the 1990s look like?From that prompt, a manifesto emerged—one that has since taken multiple forms, inhabiting various languages and media, including performance, installation, and video.

The video —created in collaboration with Costa Rican visual artist Natalia Astuácas—is one of those transformations. Together, we craft a visual poetics in which text becomes body, voice, and contested territory. The image operates as a counterpoint, as an emotional landscape, and a fragmented archive. 

The Soo Poor Lesbian Landscape… speaks from the margins —from a lesbian experience shaped by poverty, insularity, and exclusion. It is also an invitation to think of sexual dissidence as a living archive, as a political gesture, and as an aesthetic possibility.