Aguakinesis is a multinational, multimodal, multidisciplinary performance and installation project  focusing on our relationship to water.  

Core Team Members

Carolina is originally from Colombia. Currently, she is a PhD student attending Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Prior to becoming a PhD student, she attended Columbia University’s Teachers College where she obtained an MA in Early Childhood Education. Her undergraduate education took place in Cornell University  where she earned a BA in Cognitive Psychology. Some of her hobbies include knitting, swimming and running with her dog. As far as Aguakinesis goes, she is a firm believer in this project helping deepen her own connection with water knowledge, water rhythms, and with other artists/individuals. Carolina wanted to be involved in this project because she had participated in a past project, Root Map, which was the first collaborative transnational arts project of this sort. She had a wonderful experience, thus, wanted to build on that with this project. Carolina’s favorite part about Aguakinesis is that she got to know new people on an intimate level and flexed their creative muscles as academics.

Debra is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her hobby includes perfecting her recipe for Tamales. Debra believes that Aguakinesis is an opportunity to engage in a rich exchange with colleagues and friends in other parts of the Americas on a multidisciplinary performance/art project. The reason she is involved in this project is because she has been working together with Carolina Osorio Gil for 20 years, and this is the next stage in an ongoing body of work that has taken many forms, most of them relating art and activism. She has been working on this project since the very beginning, as part of the original story circles, as well as contributing ideas to the various performance and art pieces as they evolved. Also, Debra has created some things and gotten friends (and her daughter) involved in other parts. Debra hopes that people take away the richness and beauty of Latinx culture across the Americas through Aguakinesis.

Rosalie is originally from NYC/Holland. She is a performing artist, scholar and educator. She has gone on to receive her BA, MFA and is now working on her PhD. A few of her hobbies include: exploring global cuisines, bathing Carolina’s dog, hanging out with cats and other animal friends, watching tv and then talking through the program because she can’t stop also analyzing it. Rosalie believes that water moves – water fuels – water lives. To humans water can be a metaphor for how we live…but do you ever wonder if, to water perhaps we are metaphors? Like maybe humans lives are metaphors for water lives? These questions demonstrate what Aguakinesis means to her, and the reason she wanted to be involved is because she loves cross cultural art creativity and water is life. Rosalie hopes that people take away a deeper appropriation and respect for water and an inspiration or motivation to protect it in some way. Her contribution to the project includes dancing and facilitating narratives and art of others.

Andres is a journalist and music producer from Colombia.

Valentina is  originally from Ecuador. She is a social communicator, artist, educator and simultaneous interpreter. Her education has consisted of filmmaking, social communication, music, anthropology and languages. A few of her hobbies include: mountain climbing, traveling, learning from nature, diverse people and cultures. Valentina wanted to be involved in this project because it is so enriching to participate in collective multidisciplinary creative processes. We live in a time that requires extra creativity. Every new proposal can contribute for a powerful mind-shift towards the awareness of urgent preservation of our human diversity as cultures and the ecosystems where we live. As a team member, she will be contributing a sensorial space that will be named the “Water Passage” where there will be water audios available in headphones for visitors. Also, questions regarding water’s presence in our lives will be presented after listening to the sounds. Visitors will get a “postcard” with diverse images of water and they will answer writing down phrases or drawing or painting something in the postcard which will be left in the installation space. Valentina hopes that people take away the fact that water is something to be aware of and we need to be in touch with our planet and bodies in order to preserve and manage this resource that feeds and serves all of us in different aspects. We take it for granted, but it is a limited resource in our planet.

Mar is a photographer from Venezuela.

Isabela is originally from Brazil. She works as a human rights lawyer in the Universidad de la Magdalena in Santa Marta, Colombia with a focus in indigenous water rights.

Erika is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, and an engineer who works in natural resource management in Mexico.  Her focus is on issues related to water,  including cleaning up the Río Sabinal in Tuxtla Gutierrez.

Cecilia was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, which is known as the industrial capital of México. In her family, music, art and lyrics are a part of everyday life and their study is embedded into early childhood development as something essential because she considers it “food for the soul”. Although she is not a professional artist, she likes to express herself in different media and discover the satisfaction of having managed to capture a message and a feeling that can be shared through each piece.