Sunday, 18 June 2023

12:00 - 15:00
HYDRO-RELATIONS
Vessels for Water Workshop
Jemma Woolmore (artist, researcher, Berlin), Lena Johanna Reisner (curator, writer, Berlin), Nayeli Vega (artist, researcher, Berlin), Sarah Hermanutz (artist, Berlin)

The workshop Vessels for Water picks up on ancient practices of collecting water and transforms them into a ritual for connection. Situating the festival in relation to the nearest overground water ecosystem, we will move from river-side meditation, to indoor communal artists’ lectures and conversations around a sculptural installation. Handmade objects serve as containers for both water and stories that explore the complex and beautiful network of more-than-human hydrological relations. Water as a medium is a carrier of meaning and of ambiguous substances. How do different bodies and organs relate the toxic potential of these substances and water as a bringer of life on the one hand and delivering poison on the other hand? How do our individual and cultural practices honor the mutual relationship of care and being cared for by water?