The Work-Stay: Istanbul

Camil Navarro and Ute Wassermann at Salt Galata

In mid-November, Navarro and their mentor Ute Wassermann convened in Istanbul for a work-stay at Salt Galata, to continue developing Navarro's work, a sonorous reflection on water-risk issues in Chile.

Paris-based Chilean artist Camil Navarro’s practice has its roots in theater, dance, and performance. Navarro’s project stems from an analysis of and a reflection on water-risk issues around the Aconcagua River Basin.

In their performative piece, which involves voice and movement, a sonorous assemblage weaves dissonant voices, somatic practices, and the sounds of water and nature into a polyphonic set of autonomous melodies. Combined, they generate the titular Ecological Assemblage.

What potentialities arise when we get in tune with an ecological being? What strategies can we explore to stimulate an understanding of symbiosis? And how can an absent ecological entity be present in one’s perception?