ARTPORT_making waves commissions the two selected artists to develop two different interactive-participatory workshops for and with the people from Isla Isabela engaging them in the discussion about our interdependence with the ocean. The artists will be supported by the curator Anne-Marie Melster and local and international scientists who will introduce the participants in the framework of creative formats to specific topics regarding our interdependence with and our influence on the ocean and how we can individually improve this. Both artists will develop a collective art work with the participants, possibly one sculpture for public space and one artistic film work, or a stage work, performance etc. The workshops will contain scientific components where local and/or international scientists will share their knowledge with the artists and the curator, but also with the audience in an artistic and understandable way.

The workshops will be followed by public events which will present the results to the local audience and give a voice to the participants in the sense of empowerment: interdisciplinary panel discussions, film screenings, performances.

This artistic initiative will generate participatory performances and workshops where students and the audience are going to become part of a direct exchange and thinking process.

The final results will later on be shown at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito CAC.