Water Lullabies

This audiovisual piece explores the intergenerational ruptures and violence in Colombia, seeking to regenerate the social fabric through reconnection with water and the land.

In this artistic collective sentence, the stories told by the water, the surrounding sounds, the acute approach to our senses, and the rhythm of life and death bring to the present forgotten generations and place them in the realm of nature again. Thus the possibility to reconstruct the territory emerges in the everyday experience of the body and through the sensorial connection with water and food: Water Lullabies is not a return to an idyllic past but the possibility to embark today on the sounds brought by past generations, connect with them, bond with them and regenerate them.

Collective Creation:
Daniel Desiderio Páez Castillo
María Buenaventura
Nathaly Espitia
Quintina Valero

Direction:
Trixi Allina
in the workshop “Social Fabric Regeneration: Generational Breaks and Violences”

Concept:
Goethe-Institut Bogota

Research:
Anne Bechdtedt
Jhon Mesa
Trixi Allina

Editing:
Ricardo Rodriguez

Translation:
Alejandra Muñoz
Laura Haber
Luisa Donnerberg

Kultursymposium Weimar 2021
Weimar, Germany
June 16 – 17.

Everything Dead, Everything Alive. Thresholds of Resistance
46th National Artists Salon (46SNA)
National Museum of Colombia
July 28 – October 30, 2022
curated by: Melissa Aguilar