Conducting Water is a series of performative and new media installation experiments that explore the shifting agency between performative human gesture, water, and AI-based audio-visual media. Filmed from a “frog’s-eye” view through geothermal pools, rivers, and tectonic fissures in Iceland, the conductor’s hand gestures—held still or gently moving—explore water as a compositional materiality and its role in performativity. In this evolving work, the conductor’s ensemble is not a group of musicians but water. Gestures express tempo, pitch, and duration, not through traditional scoring but through embodied intra-action with place and materiality.