H20p

Medellin / Whidbey Island 2017-2019

INTRO

H20p (H20project) was developed in Medellín, Colombia and on Whidbey Island, USA together with an international audience through networks of family and friends. 

The intention of the project was the provocation of artistic collaborations through play, and the link between artists and an audience to build collaborative works across borders, acknowledging the element that composes us all, water.

PHOTO

I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS

DO YOU KNOW?

Thinking about water:

What title would you give

to this image?

En pensant á l'eau:

Quel titre donnerais-tu

à cette image?

Thinking of water:

What title would you

give to this image?

SEE TITLES

The standing monkey inspired by a white wall in Medellín

Luis Javier Betancur Noreña

Woman in empty embrace

Adelaida Mejía

respecting the past

Paüla Quemeneur

The gift of the fragile etoffe

Zoumana Méité

Deep thought

Nancy Nordhoff

I'm ready.... almost

Sandra Sarrouf

Something about direction

Christine Sajecki

I swear it was right there

Maria Mocerino

Step one

Yesenia Rodriguez

give and take

Ricardo Bustamante

PETALS AND AN ABSENT ROSE

Neil Sochasky

Snake charmer / Hither slither

Shanti Sivadas

human on concrete

Maippi

The birth of the silver ratio

Marco Pereáñez

Before jumping

Alejandro Valesquez

down in the water, up dry

Andrea Mendez

Le plongeon inversé

Benjamin Thuau

falling

Louisa Gibbs

Be

Andres Alzate

Touching water

Phyllys Murtle

INVITATION

The final image is the invitation to an audience to give their caption to the photo of the primus gestu. From each title offered, a complete choreography will be born, composed of new gestures coming from the titles offered by the public. This exchange transforms the public itself into an artistic collaborator. 

The following image shows the twenty titles collected from 8 different countries with the name and country of each author.

PROCESS

GLASS
ISATION

The song Bubbleby LAKE the band, the result of the preceding collaborative work on the project H20Cuerpo, realised in 2019. Bubble is part of the new album Roundelay by LAKE .

COLLABORATION

The music video was made in collaboration with Elijah Moore for the song Bubble by Ashley Eriksson and LAKE the band. Other contributors to the production were Shannon McKinnon (drone video), Marit Schmidt (camera 2 images), Shanti Sivadas (choreography sequence consultation), Olisa Enrico and Maureen Freehill "MoMo" (movement consultation), Brittan Drake ("light art") and Drew Christie (overlay effects).

Alejandro Vásquez Salinas, Medellín 1979. Master of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts,...

Ashley Eriksson is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and entertainer....

Eli Moore is a musician and filmmaker who lives on Whidbey Island in the state of ...

Olisa "Spyc-E" Enrico was born into a life of music and began exploring theatre ...

Maureen Momo Freehill (MFA, Directing Asian Performance U of HI). Founder of Butopia

Shanti Sivadas. Aquatic dancer since 1979. Mother, masseuse and musician...

Tessa Hays-Nordin is a multidisciplinary artist, with a background in body theatre...

* Acknowledgements for their continued support: Marco Pereáñez