"Walk on Water": A Performance by Guadalupe Maravilla (Clip)

A clip from artist Guadalupe Maravilla's July 21, 2019 performance on the Panorama of the City of New York. Organized as part of the exhibition "Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas":
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Filmed by Jack Pearce and edited by Guadalupe Maravilla.
"Walk on Water" incorporates autobiographical storytelling and choreographed rituals to create new visual memories for the entangled genealogy of border crossing stories. Maravilla performs on the rivers of the Panorama along with a futuristic border crossing Coyote, La Momia songstress and the Alien Abductor. A gong sound bath is administered by a team of healers to transform the Panorama into a giant vibrational healing instrument intended to cleanse political phobias and blockages of New Yorkers.
"Walk on Water" is the second part of a performance trilogy based on Maravilla’s autobiography. The first part, titled "The OG of Undocumented Children" (performed at the Whitney Museum, 2018) told the story of how Maravilla became an unaccompanied child immigrant and his experience crossing the border into the US. The second part for the Queens Museum focuses on Maravilla’s past as an undocumented immigrant, the deportations his family endured, and what methods can be found for healing. The final performance of the trilogy, "Disease Thrower", (to be performed at the Knockdown Center) will center on how the trauma of Maravilla’s border crossing manifested into cancer and the ways he overcame the disease.