Suspended Waters
Agua Suspendida
Eliana Hernández-Pachón in collaboration with music-artists Berenice Llorens and Marina Cyrino.
Eliana Hernández Pachón en colaboración con Berenice Llorens y Marina Cyrino.Presented at the Humboldt Forum in collaboration with Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, September 18th, 2025
Agua Suspendida es un ensayo poético que conecta cuatro objetos de la colección del Humboldt Forum hechos a partir de fibras vegetales: una balsa de la muerte tejida con juncos que ha llegado a la orilla equivocada; una balsa Muisca de oro que evoca la leyenda de El Dorado; flautas amazónicas hechas de palma que solo pueden ser vistas y tocadas por hombres; y una hoja de papel utilizada para los registros del museo.
En esta performance, música, improvisación y voz se entrelazan para expandir el flujo lírico del texto e imaginar las posibilidades sonoras de instrumentos de la colección del Humboldt Forum que ya no pueden volver a tocarse.
Presentado en el Humboldt Forum en colaboración con el Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, el 18 de septiembre de 2025.
Como un lugar
Como un lugar is a poetry, music, and performance collective founded and led by Latin American writers and activists. Since 2020, it has produced multiple poetry and performance events, including six iterations of its international Latin American Poetry Festival in New York. Como un lugar also runs a small press based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
baja el río brilloso
the gleaming river recedes
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden. Octubre 2025 - Enero 2026.
the gleaming river recedes is a poem commissioned as part of Entre la Coca y el Oro (Between Coca and Gold), an exhibition by Tatiana Arocha that weaves art and community together to reclaim the narrative surrounding the coca plant.
Un florero que se rompe
A Vase that Shatters
Parte del proyecto Transperformations: Breathing Machines Across the World, del Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society de la Universidad de Chicago
Crédito portada: Giselly Mejía
A Vase that Shatters is a short collection of poems and stories written by eight former members of the Colombian Truth Commission who spent years listening to testimonies from the war. The book grew out of a series of writing workshops that invited these commissioners to reflect on and write about their personal experiences as members of the Truth Commission, and the emotional toll of documenting Colombia's enduring conflict.