aquí todo está vivo

A huge projection fills a dark room with green: river water and dense leaves behind an orange building, overlaid with glowing interlocking circles and a dark vertical panel at the center, as if the forest were being read through a lens.
Three images side by side: a pink wall painted with a jaguar and a coiled spotted serpent under a blue sky; dogs wading a muddy brown river beneath a tangle of mangrove roots; a sliver of mangrove glowing deep red and orange.
Title
aquí todo está vivo
Artist
Suné Woods
Date
2025
Description
A video by Suné Woods made after her 2024 visit to Coquí, on Colombia’s Gulf of Tribugá, where she observed humpback whale biopsies alongside marine ecologist Dr. Natalia Botero-Acosta. Centering the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous knowledge of the region, the work asks what it means to learn from other species. Shown in Weather and the Whale at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz.
Artwork Type
Film / Video
Installation
Materiality
Video / Digital Video
Climate & Ecology Themes
Oceans and Coasts
Biodiversity and Species Loss
Indigenous Knowledge and Sovereignty
Concepts
More-than-Human Relations
Place and Belonging
Methods & Approaches
Art and Science Collaboration
Field Research / Fieldwork
Audience / Engagement Type
Public / General Audience
Location
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, California
Geographic Scope
International / Global
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Website
IAS artist page
Interrogating Scientific Knowledge and Naming
Affiliated Organizations
Weather and the Whale
UCSC Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Santa Cruz
Media
A huge projection fills a dark room with green: river water and dense leaves behind an orange building, overlaid with glowing interlocking circles and a dark vertical panel at the center, as if the forest were being read through a lens.Suné Woods, aquí todo está vivo
Three images side by side: a pink wall painted with a jaguar and a coiled spotted serpent under a blue sky; dogs wading a muddy brown river beneath a tangle of mangrove roots; a sliver of mangrove glowing deep red and orange.Suné Woods, aquí todo está vivo (still)