Water/Power is a multi-chapter documentary and installation project that traces how water moves through landscapes, infrastructures, legal systems, and imaginaries in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and beyond. Currently in Developed during my inaugural residency at Arizona State University’s Water Institute, it follows the entangled futures of rivers, wetlands, and the fantasies of desalination that connect the Sonoran Desert to the Middle East. Developed through rigorous research, fieldwork, and listening practices, the project will culminate in exhibitions, publications, and public programs. By working alongside scientists, activists, engineers, and more-than-human worlds, Water/Power asks how artistic practice can render climate crisis and nonhuman life newly visible within debates over water infrastructure and environmental justice. Water/Power is a multi-chapter documentary and installation project that traces how water moves through landscapes, infrastructures, legal systems, and imaginaries in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and beyond. Navigating layered histories and political complexities, it traces past, present, and imaginaries of just futures.
