In the central Andes of Chile, a mining company, called Anglo American, is melting the glaciers that feed the city of Santiago with drinking water. The environmental permit for the expansion of the mine was rejected due to its impact on glaciers. The lobby of the company pushed through: In April 2023 the council of ministers approved the expansion of the mine. The artists families will be affected. “Agua es futuro!” Was filmed in the surface of a future underground copper mine. The work witnesses the irrational destruction of the earth and like a dream, transports us to a future in which water is sacred, the earth´s forests are restored and the people give offerings to the living forces that sustain them. Agua es futuro!– Water is future.

„Breathing Rivers“-Festival

Located on the Spree River, Radialsystem was originally one of Berlin's first pumping stations, diverting wastewater from the rapidly growing city in the late 19th century. As part of the summer festival “Breathing Rivers,” today's Radialsystem explores our relationship to life and water from 20–23 July 2023 with works by choreographers Amanda Piña, Lina Gómez and Luísa Saraiva. “Breathing Rivers” aims to open spaces of experience in which we collectively remember the continuity of all that is living, which has experienced ruptures through the thought and action of European modernity. Disruptions between human and nature, body and mind, or through cleaving categorizations such as gender and race, behind which exploitation, violence and injustice find their justification. A re-consideration of the inseparable embeddedness of the human being in a larger context begins here with the body as a place of experience and knowledge production. Instead of a notion of a universality of knowledge, Breathing Rivers proposes a multiplicity of possibilities of knowledge production that emerges with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.