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Mourning the Glacier
2024

Set of spatial and performative collective interventions
With AWOL (absent without leave)

Part of the Free Radicals residency at Floating University, Berlin

AWOL Collective │ Performance │Spatial Intervention


Dreaming water
2024
Collective dreaming and storytelling session


Dreaming water is a collective exercise on dreaming as a tool for political imagination, letting water stories guide us to new shores of resistance. In water flows the archive of our collective struggle; ever moving, ever changing. In dreaming, we can find an escape from the structures that oppress and alienate us, allowing us to access not only memories of our land but also otherwise incomprehensible futures. The dream sketches produce a new set of stories that will be told in the future, creating an endless cycle of our shared knowledge.


Performed by Giuliana Marmo with a water soundscape designed by René Andrade Martina.


Mourning the Glacier is a set of performative and spatial interventions that explore the loss of Venezuela’s Humboldt Glacier, reflecting on how climate collapse erases both geological and cultural histories. Participants engage with water as a symbol of collective memory and resistance. An altar made from found materials, uses water to flow in a loop, perpetually leaking to symbolize fragile cycles of care, messages written on ice merge with the water, glacier soup is cooked and shared, the city mapped through water and grief, while a guided dreaming session uses liquid narrations to foster political imagination and envision new futures.

Land Grieving, Affective Cartographies workshop with Eduardo Gonzaga
An Altar to Water by Belén Arellano Cañizares and Santiago Méndez
An Altar to Water by Belén Arellano Cañizares and Santiago Méndez
La gota que colmó la sopa or the making of glacier soup by AWOL
Land Grieving, Affective Cartographies workshop with Eduardo Gonzaga
La gota que colmó la sopa or the making of glacier soup by AWOL
An Altar to Water by Belén Arellano Cañizares and Santiago Méndez
An Altar to Water by Belén Arellano Cañizares and Santiago Méndez
An Altar to Water by Belén Arellano Cañizares and Santiago Méndez

AWOL Collective (Absent without Leave) is an artistic collective committed to democratizing climate knowledge and research, active since 2024. AWOL engages in collaborative practices that challenge imperial frameworks and reimagine relationships with the environment as part of a shared struggle for liberation. Through interdisciplinary projects, ranging from workshops to on-site research and performative actions, the collective merges memory, archives, and history with data and spatial analysis, crafting new narratives that bridge personal displacement with ecological crisis. Currently composed by Belén Arellano Cañizares, Stefan Ralevic, and Giuliana Marmo. They have been part of the Free Radicals Residency at Floating University Berlin (2024) and the Begehungen Art Festival in Chemnitz (2025), and are currently part of the 2025 cohort of the School of Commons at ZHdK in Zurich.