At the core of the work is the Bamboo River Hammock, co-created with choreographer Alejandro Toledo. This ongoing project facilitates close observation of the river’s tidal shifts, environmental changes, and growing plantation. Suspended above the water, the hammock becomes an ecotonal space where the body attunes to the shifting rhythms of the landscape. Nasia and Alejandro continue to reflect on and develop the project through long-distance dialogue and writing.
There Are Still Rivers explores the porous intersections between body, ecology, and movement, tracing the spiritual and ecological flows of water while engaging with the thresholds—ecotones—that exist between human and non-human bodies, land and water, stillness and change. The project itself evolved into an ecotone, fostering a generative space of encounter between disciplines, practices, and presences.
Originally presented as an eight-channel video installation at Fundación Andreani, Buenos Aires, There Are Still Rivers continues to evolve as a platform for somatic inquiry, ecological sensitivity, and site-responsive practice.
The work was developed through the creative and collaborative contributions of:
Alejandro Toledo (choreographer and co-creator of the re-designed Bamboo River Hammock)
Sara Ortolani, whose co-authorship of the River Monologue (Like mud video) emerged through our remote embodied practice.
Emilce Giroldi, Belen Ronde, Alejandro for their honouring presence performing with the river hammock.
The local community and friends of Monte whose presence and dialogue informed the process and the extraordinary time there.
Tragadero River for permitting me to work alongside its presence.
Subsurface Springs Tablet video: by Nasia Papavasiliou
Projection Drone video: Filmed by Alvaro Rocha.
Production and assistive curation: Juan Sorrentino and Camila Ponte
Special thanks to Fundacion Andreani for hosting the work, big thanks to their incredible team some of which Luchia Arturi MMercedes Urquiza Mili Velasco.
And at last, Monte Residencia for being such an incredible experience from the beggining to the end.
Supported by: Cyprus Ministry of Culture