The path of the blue waters

Nuclear City. January-July, 2022

Socio-artistic project which involves a group of people living in a community in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and works on an environmental issue in that area of the country. 

The path of the blue waters proposes to get closer to this place, called CEN (Nuclear City). It was built in 1982, close to the facilities of the Electro Nuclear Power Plant of Juraguá, with the intention of being the home for the engineers and other workers for the future plant. 

The whole construction was interrupted during the early 90s, and the place became a sort of capsule of time, still and slow. Today it confronts many socio-economic issues, due to its isolation, and environmental ones, due to the possible construction of a hazardous waste dumpster. This information is not very clear to the inhabitants, though. 

This project wants to raise awareness about the ecological damage for the blue lakes around the city, the forest and the soils, and the environmental impact for the community in case the dumpster is finally built. 

It’s an invitation to trace together a path of (re) knowledge and (re) reading of the place. To think about its past, about the social utopia that created it, and the current relations of the inhabitants with its present and, above all, with its future and the preservation of the environment.

Project awarded in the Call for Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change, 2020. Prince Claus Foundation-Goethe Institut. 

PARTICIPANTS

Experts of life/ performers
Atilio Caballero
Arianna Cepero
Fabricio Caballero
Natalia Caballero
Jose Gabriel Limonta
Gabriel Alejandro Limonta Diaz
Taimi Blanco
Aleksander Naranjo
Daniel Anton Morera

Facilitators/mediators
Luis Ángel Rodríguez (Biologist/environmentalist)
Abel Domínguez (Local historian)
Aleksander Naranjo (Electrical Engineer)

Coordination/direction
 Alessandra Santiesteban
Karina Pino Gallardo
Atilio Caballero

Documentation
Daniel Antón Morera
Karina Pino
Grethel Malú Román Urquiola 

Colaboration
 Grupo de Teatro La Fortaleza, Ciudad Nuclear, Cienfuegos

Convocatoria de Financiamiento
para Respuestas Culturales y Artísticas al Cambio Ambiental, 2020. Fundación Príncipe Claus-Instituto Goethe. 

+info: Proyect website

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Construction of the Juraguá nuclear power plant (Archive image, June 1987).
Construction of the Nuclear City (Archive image).
Surroundings of the nuclear power plant and its facilities. Current photo.
The blue lakes (Current photo)
The blue lakes (Current photo)
The nuclear plant seen from the Nuclear City. Current photo.
Workshops given by invited specialists and inhabitants of the Nuclear City.
Materials from the work process of the workshops.
Workshops given by invited specialists and inhabitants of the Nuclear City.
Final performance installation process.
Materials from the work process of the workshops.
Final performance installation process.
Final performance installation process.
Final performance installation process.
Final performance by inhabitants of the Nuclear City.
Final performance by inhabitants of the Nuclear City.
Final performance by inhabitants of the Nuclear City.
Final Performance
Final Performance
Cartographies of daily life
The excluded flesh