Falling into Amphibious Land places water as matter, metaphor, and site of dispute. The socio-environmental crises running through several Latin American territories are the sustained result of extractive economies and colonial logics that have managed scarcity, displaced communities, and redefined which bodies can access, inhabit, or survive in water. In response, ancestral memories, forms of resistance based on the collective, and other modes of care and political imagination have emerged.
Within this framework, artistic and narrative practices position themselves as critical devices to imagine possible futures for waters. Therefore, the residency proposes thinking of them as a flow that takes shape among lakes, rivers, seas, and aquifers, but also as a system crossed by infrastructures, economies, and violences. One such body is the Magdalena River in Colombia: a scene of colonization, recent conflicts, and above all an inexhaustible source of life. In Mompox —a historic port in the Caribbean region— knowledge survives that teaches how to care for, build, and inhabit a world.
The amphibious world of the Momposina depression, in the heart of the Colombian Caribbean, allows us to think of water from a territory where there exists a relation —at once tense and fertile— between water and land. In this liminal space, knowledge flourishes that teaches other ways of doing and being, in a territory made of water.
The project seeks to learn from the trades and situated knowledge of this region, recognizing the river and local wisdom‑keepers as fundamental political and epistemological guides and agents. Each artist will develop their practice from an embodied experience in this amphibious land, where the territory itself acts as a teacher: a living agent that challenges, questions, and transforms those who traverse it.
