Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters exhibition opening:

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
17:00–18:00
Kunstverein PSK
Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz 2
Mezzanine, Room 36 1/2
1010 Vienna

 

Participating artists:

Lobna Awidat
Mari Blaasvaer
Rebecca Martínková
Maja Meland
Leo Olson-Ury

A presentation of gatherings from Artscience practises WS2022/23.

‘Muddy waters’ refers to water in crisis due to scarcity, pollution, uneven geographic and social distribution and the looming hydrological disasters of climate change. The pristine abstracted essential nature of water, is now challenged by the ecological, cultural, and political dimensions of water (Linton 2010). In the seminar we investigated urban waterways, trying to identify ‘assemblages’ of multispecies ‘world-making projects’ in ‘disturbance based ecologies’ (Tsing 2015). Tracing these dynamics in our local surrounding should help us in ‘reimagining water’ and what it means to be part of an ‘embodied hydrocommons’ (Neimanis 2019). We went on walks, gathered materials and observations and reassembled them together.
 

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Bibliography:

Linton, Jamie. 2010. What Is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, Nature, History, Society (Vancouver: UBC Press)
Neimanis, Astrida. 2019. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (London: Bloomsbury Academic)
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton: Princeton University Press)

Artscience practises is a seminar by Brishty Alam & Valerie Deifel.

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