Uma Project
Uma is a work that celebrates water as essence, mystery, and the origin of life, and at the same time it serves as a warning and a call to become aware that we share the same paths, and that Uma’s destiny will be our destiny.
The Uma Project is articulated through several axes. The one that organizes the others is an open visual score. From this core, other axes unfold: the Uma Web project, a collaborative work, and the Drawing Water laboratories, which are the project’s educational and territorial dimension, where we work with communities through workshops and diverse experiences. Finally, scenic, performative, and exhibition developments are also envisioned.
Open Visual Score
The Uma Project was awarded the CAREC Prince Claus 2025 grant (Cultural and Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis). In this context, the definitive version of the open visual score was completed, organizing the project and its development.
The open visual score of the Uma Project works as a map of the project. It is a conceptual and operational tool that organizes and guides the different materializations of the work, acting as a guide for its multiple possible developments. The score seeks to structure and propose the contents of the work Uma, enabling it to unfold across different formats, languages, and contexts.
The Drawing Water laboratories were also carried out in the context of the CAREC Lab Week and the Coastal Community Conference in Indonesia. In parallel, activities were developed in articulation with the Teacher Education Area and the Buen Vivir Environmental Culture Program at the National University of the Arts (UNA).
The collective dialogue spaces of this experience helped shape a new stage of the territorial Drawing Water project, conceived as an artistic, pedagogical, technological, and environmental project. This stage aims to deepen the idea of connecting communities through water, in connection with Uma Web as part of the device to realize and expand that experience.
Drawing Water
Drawing Water is a laboratory that invites participants to draw water, its forms, its movements, and the lives that unfold within it. Through music, it narrates a journey through time across seas, rivers, and streams. It proposes a celebration of water and, at the same time, a call for its care, restoration, and defense.
Between 2015 and 2023, it was carried out as part of the cultural activities of ACUMAR, with communities across the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin. In 2024, it was presented within the framework of COP 16 in Cali, Colombia, as part of the Banco de la República program.
Uma Web
The first prototype of Uma Web is being developed in collaboration with Gastón Lozano and Nahuel Cañada.
It is a work in progress built in dialogue with young people who take part in workshops where artistic and scientific contents around water are articulated. As a complement, this development is framed within an academic research project: “Water: Participating in Ecological Challenges Through Scientific Information and the Arts,” presented by the Aguas Abiertas team, composed of arts researchers (Dibujo Abierto Team, National University of the Arts) and science communication researchers (National University of Quilmes).
