Four Confluences

Abstract

From water as materiality and metaphor, I seek to bring together certain reflections and experiences around artistic research. I will refer to a project called Museo Animista del Lago de Texcoco to address the way in which the bodies that inhabit the metropolitan region of Mexico City, as are the artifacts belonging to this project (a series of fragments of the lake floor, moved by epistemic-artistic operations), are interpellated and animated by water in a deep sense. I will channel these reflections through the course of a specific socio-environmental conflict, situated in my own body and located in the struggles for water and land in the basin of Mexico. From here I will introduce my own place of enunciation, address the movements that make up the aqueous character of this research and point out the links between some bodies and others, while I fabricate a water cartography of the territory I inhabit. All this will also be a trigger to talk about the powers of artistic research and how it can open the door to other possible ways of knowing that are plentiful and generous, like rivers: an episteme that integrates doing, feeling, living and thinking in the same torrent.