The workshop is an invitation to draw water, exploring its different forms, movements, and the life it sustains. Through music, a journey unfolds over time, traveling across seas, rivers, streams, and springs. The workshop is both a celebration of water and a call to care for, restore, and protect it.
This artistic-pedagogical proposal, based on collective drawing, approaches drawing as an open and communal practice. It is conceived as a shared language, a process to be built together with others. Always starting from play, the proposal emphasizes dialogue, the creation of guidelines for group improvisation, and the concept of reciprocity, ensuring that all voices become part of the composition.
Drawing water was carried out within the cultural programs of Acumar (Matanza Riachuelo Basin Authority) between 2015 and 2023, engaging with the communities of the basin. Each time it takes place, the script is adapted to the specific community, following a prior listening process to understand their relationship with water.
The workshops were presented in 2024 as part of COP 16 (United Nations Conference on Biodiversity) in Cali, Colombia, within the programming of Banco de la República. They were developed through a dialogue between Colombia and Argentina, featuring a video mapping with live drawing in collaboration with the Cali-based artist collective Proyecto Monos.
Drawing water workshop is part of the Uma project, a work that celebrates water as essence, mystery, and the origin of life. At the same time, it serves as a warning and a call to awareness, reminding us that we share the same paths and that Uma’s fate will be our own.
As part of the Uma project, this workshop is also linked to the research project: "Water: Engaging in Ecological Challenges through Scientific Information and the Arts. An Educational and Technological Development Project to Measure Experiences and Engage Youth through Collaborative Drawing."
The research team leading this project consists of scholars from the National University of the Arts (UNA, Open Drawing Team) and the National University of Quilmes (UNQ). Both groups collaborate with secondary school students from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), bridging two key areas: science communication and collaborative artistic production through real-time animated drawing platforms.
