OTHER SCORES OF WATER

OTHER SCORES OF WATER

A project conceived by Luz María Bedoya that explores different forms of water in the Peruvian coastline, the Andes mountains and the Amazon rainforest, to produce new films, sound works and weather reports – to be published via the World Weather Network over the year.

Weather stations: the Coastline, Andes and Rainforest of Peru

Other Scores of Water features three films made in locations in the Andes and the Amazon rainforest in Peru, relevant due to the different bodies of water in these places: snow-capped mountains in the Andes, cloud forests and confluences of rivers in the Amazon basin. Understood as a virtual score, these waters will together compose a symbolic cartography that intertwines the natural and social climates of the environments showing the geographical and cultural complexities of these territories.

Other Scores of Water develops from a recent project by Luz María Bedoya, All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast, based on the codes of all 56 maritime lighthouses sited along the Peruvian coastline on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Through a graphic score created by Bedoya, the work opens up relationships between sound, writing and navigation. It is made with the participation of some 40 musicians and writers invited to interpret the score and write texts on a selection of nautical terms.

The archive of All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast creative process can be found here. An installation of the project is on view at MALI in Lima. Weather reports produced by the artist in collaboration with local communities, musicians, artists and academics will be shared online between June 2022 and June 2023. These will include the broadcast of a radio program featuring the performances of 25 musicians and sound artists based on the graphic score of All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast together with three films produced in different locations in the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon jungle for the project “Other Scores of Water”. The latter will be accompanied by research findings, photographs and texts, gathered in travel logs made during the journeys to each location.

Commissioned by MALI and proyectoamil for World Weather Network.

Other Scores of Water is a continuation of All the Lighthouses of the Peruvian Coast, a project by Luz María Bedoya produced by MALI and Fundación Telefónica Movistar in 2021. For more information, please visit here.

MALI AND PROYECTOAMIL

The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) is a private, non-profit cultural organization devoted to the promotion of the visual arts in Peru. MALI houses the only representative survey collection of Peruvian art, consisting of over 19,500 art works. This vast permanent collection, witness to several centuries of cultural transformations, includes pre-Columbian and colonial objects as well as modern and contemporary objects. The museum has directed its efforts to opening up new perspectives in Peruvian art history, through academic and cultural research, and its dissemination through exhibitions, publications and public programs.

proyectoamil is a fluid-structure based in Peru and Switzerland whose founding mission is to enable both internationally renowned and emerging artists to find a way to materialise projects, creating a space in which the public can encounter and engage with distinct critical content.

Atalaya
Crédito: Atalaya, Peru. Photo by Maurice Chédel

ABOUT WORLD WEATHER NETWORK

A worldwide network of artists, writers and communities reporting on their weather and our climate | June 2022 – June 2023
The world’s weather is not what it was. We see glaciers melting and water levels rising. Some lands are flooded and others are parched. Everywhere is heating up.
Formed in response to the climate emergency, the World Weather Network is a constellation of weather stations set up by 28 arts agencies around the world and an invitation to look, listen, learn, and act.

From June 21 2022 to June 21 2023, artists, writers and communities will share observations, stories, reflections and images about their local weather, creating an archipelago of voices and viewpoints. Engaging climate scientists and environmentalists, the World Weather Network brings together diverse world views and different ways of understanding the weather across multiple localities and languages.

Weather Stations

Each partner arts agency has chosen a location of significance from where artists and writers can explore the local weather; we call these “weather stations”. They may be specific places, buildings, environments or wider geographic regions. From each weather station, artists and writers create new works in a range of different art forms: these are the “weather reports”. Explore the stations in the Network here.

Reports

Weather Reports take many different forms: poetry, fiction, reportage, video diaries, films, photography, podcasts and more. Each report will be shared as a digital artwork via this site. Search for the latest reports here.

Events

The Network is hosting a series of online talks, presentations or performances throughout the year, inviting leading thinkers from the fields of science, technology, ecology, philosophy, and policy to talk about weather and climate with artists and writers.

Agencias

ARTANGEL, Londres

ARTIGENIUM, San Sebastian

ART JAMEEL, Dubai

ARTSONJE CENTER, Seúl

BUNDANON, New South Wales

DHAKA ART SUMMIT, Bangladesh

ENOURA OBSERVATORY, Japón

NICOLETTA FIORUCCI FOUNDATION, Londres

FOGO ISLAND ARTS, Newfoundland

FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO, Turin

HOLT-SMITHSON FOUNDATION, Nuevo México

ICELANDIC ARTS CENTRE, Reykjavic

IHME HELSINKI / PRO ARTE FOUNDATION, Helsinki

KHOJ, Nueva Dehli

MALI, Lima

MCAD, Manilla

NEON, Atenas

NGO, Johannesburgo

WAAG, Amsterdam

RUYA FOUNDATION, Iraq

SAHA, Estambul

SOPHIA POINT, Guyana

TERRA FOUNDATION, Comporta

TE TUHI, Aotearoa / Nueva Zelanda

UCCA, Beijing

YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION, Lagos

32 DEGREES EAST, Uganda

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