Antonia Hernández is part of the residency programme in collaboration with Chile. During the residency, Antonia is working on the project Water Cybernetics I: (de)Appropriation Doctrine which will be presented in the 2023 festival edition.
In Water Cybernetics I: (de)Appropriation Doctrine, Antonia Hernández investigates the possibilities of liquid governance through a speculative scenario where water and its physical states (solid, liquid, and gaseous) act as a (hydro)common body with a set of constitutional rights.
By thinking through water, this exercise in environmental justice will address the scale of Chile's current water crisis. During her residency, Hernández will draft a manifesto with a new set of water rights and a fictional treatise on water cybernetics, working with experts to develop a water governance platform through design justice and decolonial methods. The project is a collaboration with Berlin-based artist and researcher Laura Cugusi.
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Camila Marambio, Lorena Juan, and Nora O Murchú
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Hydrofiction 01: Holy Waters was developed together with Laura Cugusi during the residency and is an ongoing project. Sound design: Gabriel Vigliensoni The residency programme is a project in cooperation with the Ministry of the Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile and DIRAC – Division for Cultures, Arts, Heritage and Public Diplomacy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. transmediale has been funded as a cultural institution of excellence by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) since 2004. with additional funding by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Department Culture.
