No Land: The Water Ceremony
CATALINA SWINBURN
No Land: The Water Ceremony seeks to rescue an ancestral ritual of gratitude to water in relation to sacred places, ancestral geography and original memory. This ceremony, which brings together diverse customs, traditions and beliefs of the Inca civilisation, highlights the innumerable ancestral chronicles and urban legends that have been transmitted from generation to generation. The installation is constructed by intricately weaving pieces from pages of selected cartographic documentation with a stepped pattern design, inspired from the sacred ruins and old scaffold textiles, used in the Andean cultures. Each “ritual investiture” is inspired by a specific Aandean mythological figure related to the water cycle; Cocha the Goddess of the Water, Copacati the Lake Guardian, Killa the Incan Moon Goddess. Coyllur the deity of light and stars, and Illapu the rain giver.
