Water Mother (1-channel)

The Riveter, Portland, OR ·
Constellations 2020 (CETI Institute), part of the Portland Winter Light Festival

Installation / Film

Presented in January 2020 as part of Constellations 2020, a curated interdisciplinary weekend by the CETI Institute within the Portland Winter Light Festival, this single-channel adaptation of Water Mother offered an intimate, meditative experience in contrast to the original, expansive three-channel installation. Installed in a small enclosed room at The Riveter—its enclosure evoking the pods that airports provide to mothers, symbolic of both care and cultural avoidance—the film distilled the immersive imagery of body and water into a focused moment of embodied presence within a broader festival of light, creativity, and emergent technologies.

The CETI Institute (Creative and Emergent Technology Institute) organizes collaborative gatherings where artists, technologists, and researchers experiment together across disciplines. Constellations 2020 was one such event, bringing diverse practices into conversation under the umbrella of the Portland Winter Light Festival.

Tags: Installation, Film, Somatic ecology, Embodied research, Ritual / Ceremonial practice, Experimental performance, Interdisciplinary research