{"id":1855,"date":"2024-11-09T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:11:10","slug":"hydrofiction-02-dry-water","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/work\/hydrofiction-02-dry-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry Water (Hydrofiction 02)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m39edga1-b365e12700e44a2352304467253b5d0b\">\n.avia-image-container.av-m39edga1-b365e12700e44a2352304467253b5d0b img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-m39edga1-b365e12700e44a2352304467253b5d0b .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-m39edga1-b365e12700e44a2352304467253b5d0b av-styling-no-styling avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-1856 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-1856 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168.jpg\" alt='a hill with a group of goats over, looking defiant' title='DSCF0168'  height=\"1124\" width=\"2000\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-1030x579.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-1500x843.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.antoniahernandez.com\/artwork\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/DSCF0168-705x396.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-2a57rj-5c850a0d72134c4ba7473345ce14ef53 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_image  el_before_av_one_full  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m39eo5r8-03888eaf1005bfb5cf2dd57f1f661c70 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><b>Dry<\/b><em><b> Water<\/b><\/em> is the first installment of a bilingual, multichannel video opera installation that explores water governance in Chile, the most water-stressed country in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Loosely following the opera format, Dry Water is presented as a choral storytelling that has acts, scenes, and a varied cast of characters. Dry Water is also an investigation into <b>the poetics of water governance<\/b>, looking for the forms that governance acquires and the types of engagements with those forms. With an emphasis on language, local testimonies are put in conversation with financial brochures, critical literature on water financialization and archival research into the genealogy of water privatization. These many forms are presented through video portraits, poetic short texts and dialogues, and sound design.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging notions of value, financial imagination is in this artwork at the service of a decolonial tale under critical environmental conditions. It shows a mottled landscape where desertification is conjured with religious processions, wealth coexists with dispossession, and value grows in recycled plastic bottles.<\/p>\n<p>This preliminary version was developed with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/governingthrough.design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governing Through Design<\/a> initiative, under the <a href=\"https:\/\/againstcatastrophe.net\/\">Against Catastrophe<\/a> project. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/againstcatastrophe.net\/watersovereignties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water <span class=\"NA6bn BxUVEf UiGGAb ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">Sovereignties<\/span><\/span><\/a> dispatch, that also has art by <a href=\"https:\/\/againstcatastrophe.net\/holdingrivers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solveig Qu Suess<\/a>, and texts by <a href=\"https:\/\/againstcatastrophe.net\/engineeringwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Pryke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/againstcatastrophe.net\/watermoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meera Karunananthan &amp; Marcela Olivera<\/a>, Andrew Alan Johnson, and Jerome Whitington.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1zoudr-aa6d60807c1382a36e11043a8a5ecd9c av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-meag4k3q-2f306c970618992fb14aa0809f9e2d64 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2><b>Scenes <\/b><\/h2>\n<p>(samples)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-7xx19r-34f8acf915cf1a0a1fa6907741b30634 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><b>Scene IX: El Pedernal<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video av-meagfnyz-dd69e1f3d1e56ba0e2f77903936733cd avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/2_XSJYJwAEk'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scene IX: El Pedernal\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_XSJYJwAEk?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-meagh4c9-e98ad6c83eb37ee8f54727e3677f351f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><b>Scene XII: Las Palmas<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video av-5y0q9b-afd50cd1d46b3e5eee3286fe2f0a0e34 avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/faxp5HE_Bbc'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scene XII: Las Palmas\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/faxp5HE_Bbc?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/script><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-meaghcov-19c95b6ce5a3aefb89ae5eb986eed62d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><b>Scene IV: El Manzano<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-video av-meagc0pk-f82a4e70afbf1633333faecf81539570 avia-video-16-9 av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always av-lazyload-immediate av-lazyload-video-embed'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/d7ttfdNzDO0'><script type='text\/html' class='av-video-tmpl'><div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scene IV: El Manzano\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7ttfdNzDO0?feature=oembed&autoplay=0&loop=0&controls=1&mute=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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