Pod vodo (Underwater) began as a theatre piece, devised by Alenka Marinič and Maja Dekleva Lapajne, Slovene theatre artists and close friends who work together in the theatre company Kolektiv Narobov. The authors found themselves in similar positions in life: part of a middle-aged generation that no longer has access to the social benefits of the older generation and can no longer enjoy the benefits created for promising "young artists,” mothers of small children, self-employed artists, members of a disappearing middle class, women, etc. In a wider context, they are theatre artists living in the time of austerity; enduring the disappearance of social benefits; observing an increase in inequality in Slovenia, Europe, and the world; watching the rise of technical governments and populists; reacting to nationalism and xenophobia; experiencing the immense power of international corporations; witnessing mass migration; barbed wires, walls, wars—in short, living in the neoliberal, post-factual world. The themes for this album are drawn directly from their personal positions on and experiences of the current social situation. The source is, therefore, extremely personal. But, through music, they transform it into a universal work of art. The material, which, as aforementioned, was originally devised for a theatre show, led to the submerged concert performance Pod vodo, and later to this album that carries the same name.

Pod vodo je avtorski projekt Alenke Marinič in Maje Dekleva Lapajne, ki ju družijo poglavitna obdobja skupnega ustvarjanja v okviru Kolektiva Narobov ter tesen prijateljski odnos. Skupna jima je tudi pozicija, v kateri sta se znašli kot ustvarjalki: generacija srednjih let, ki ne ujame več starih socialnih ugodnosti, obenem pa ne spada v kategorijo perspektivnih “mladih umetnikov”, mami majhnih otrok, samozaposleni v kulturi, prekarni delavki, srednji razred v izginjanju oziroma drsenju navzdol, ženski. V širšem kontekstu pa ustvarjalki v obdobju varčevalnih programov in razgradnje socialne države, v obdobju naraščanja neenakosti v Sloveniji, v Evropi in v svetu, v obdobju tehničnih vlad in populistov, novega zagona nacionalizma in ksenofobije, v obdobju neizmernih moči mednarodnih korporacij, v obdobju migracij, bodečih žic, zidov in vojn, v neoliberalističnem in postfaktičnem svetu. Tematsko projekt črpa prav iz življenjskih pozicij sodelujočih umetnic in njunega doživljanja trenutne družbene situacije. Vir navdiha je izrazito oseben, to osebno pa s pomočjo skrbno izbranih metod dela predelujeta v univerzalnejša umetniška dela. Tako je nastala potopljena koncertna predstava Pod vodo in tako je za njo nastal še istoimenski album.