On the Horizon: Community Participatory Bucket Brigade

MEET at 1 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 (in front of Boulevard Restaurant). From there, we will create a community chain for .07 miles carrying buckets of ocean water until we reach the exhibition space at Pier 17 to fill the artwork On the Horizon.

**Before participating in the Bucket Brigade, please review and sign the Event Waiver PDF and bring a signed copy (printed or digital) to the event.**

SF Climate Week launch activation as part of Hidden Currencies: Water Justice in the Age of AI. Join us as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Pier 17 in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades as part of Ana Teresa Fernández’ social sculpture On the Horizon.

This participatory art activation connects local communities to the sea and moves them to an empathic and proactive approach to address rising sea levels. We must all carry the water.

© Ana Teresa Fernández

About the Artist

Ana Teresa Fernández (b. 1981, Tampico, Mexico) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, sculpture, video, and painting. Her practice addresses intersections of place, gender, history, climate, and colonial politics through enacted narratives and social gestures. Working through enacted narratives and social gestures, she reveals what too often gets lost in translation — becoming the embodiment of the stories that both divide and bind us. On the Horizon invites participants to engage with water as a finite, embodied resource, combining collaboration and ceremony to highlight the global water crisis.

About the Hidden Currencies Series

Presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco, Hidden Currencies explores water as a living medium whose circulation sustains both life and technological innovation. The series highlights connections between Switzerland’s longstanding commitments to water stewardship, diplomacy, and innovation, and the Bay Area’s role as a global hub for research and technology.

​The central exhibition features works by six artists whose practices span photography, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and data art: Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Céline Ducret, Ana Teresa Fernández, Greg Niemeyer, and Annelia Norris (pue leek la').

An adjoining experiential hub features interventions by City Studio (Amy Berk + Chris Treggiari), Ani Moskovyan, Greg Niemeyer, Samuel Wildmann, Tania Claudia Castillo, Candice Mays, and Juana Perfecta. Together, these works invite visitors to reckon with water's hidden presence in everyday life — drawing audiences into direct encounters with the systems, costs, and migrations that water quietly connects.

Curated by Amy Kisch, Founder of AKArt Advisory and Art+Action, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive experience that extends beyond the gallery through a series of interdisciplinary activations bringing together Swiss and U.S. artists, filmmakers, Indigenous knowledge holders, policymakers, scientists, and climate activists to explore water, climate justice, and imagined futures.

This event is presented by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco in collaboration with AKArt Advisory, EAWAG, Stanford Doerr School Sustainability Accelerator, and Geneva Water Hub, and supported by Presence Switzerland and EAWAG.

For more information or to explore other Swiss events, visit SwissImpact.

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