Nadie: río del tiempo archivero de la lucha del agua del Azuay

Abstract

NADIE: Río del Tiempo - Archivero de la lucha del agua del Azuay is an investigative work on artistic proposals that generate other forms of human relationships proposed by Relational Aesthetics, resignified through the contributions of relational antagonism and artistic activism (artivism). The main objective of this work is to develop a collaborative project of flexible relational art together with the environmental group Yasunidos Guapondélig, according to their interests and needs, for the construction of a narrative about the history of the struggle for water in the province of Azuay. The proposal consists of the compilation and systematization of cultural products, memories, activists’ documents and the creation of a mobile installation/ performance, generally known as a mobile artefact. This device functions as an exhibition platform for the consumption of cultural products and archives that make visible the most representative actions developed by the group within the framework of resistance. This in turn seeks to generate meeting spaces and appropriation of public space. In this way, it hopes to demonstrate that artistic forms and creative tools of art are effective in generating other forms of human relationships, both affective and spatial, within communities of activists and defenders of water and non-exclusive spectators of public space. At the same time, it is a hybrid strategy of art and activism that makes visible the fight for the defense of water and territory in Azuay.