breathing lake:dreams of the uprooted

breathing lake: dreams of the uprooted is a continuous weaving of songs, waters, lands, and kinships, that gather to meet the ongoing moment of climate collapse. Through sound and images, the project offers a space of radical imagination that goes beyond the existing plantation paradigms of western colonial imperialism.

breathing lake: dreams of the uprooted is an ongoing project on the imaginative possibilities of displacement under climate crisis and ecological collapse. The conditions of climate change are examined as a collective state of unbelonging and displacement that is created by the existing paradigms of western colonial imperialism. Ongoing plantation and extractivist logics divide and dominate the ecological, social, and emotional spheres of life, creating an alienated relationship to nature. Ecological grief and the loss of home due to climate change effects offer the possibility of transformation that the work explores from the fugitive position of an outsider, an alien walking in an unfamiliar land.

Through the weaving of songs, waters, lands, ancestors, future generations, and more than human kinships, dreams of the uprooted invites audiences to spend time in a space of collective dreaming and radical imagination beyond climate crisis. Through sound, textile and performance, the work seeks to uncover our everpresent connection to earths, skies, and waters, and to reconnect fragmented selves through an offering of truth telling and collective grieving. Journeying through the pathways of ancestors into an ecologically damaged present, the project turns towards dreaming of other worlds that have always been present.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to the amazing constellation of beloved people in my life, friends, mentors, colleagues, co-collaborators, and dreamers, who offered so many conversations, support, and knowledge. A special thank you to my dearest parents, my two grandmothers, and all my ancestors, human and more than human, who made this project possible.