Daniela Medina Poch Elizabeth Gallón Droste
Aqualiteracies: Feeling~Thinking with Waters
past
Online
2022—II
11/29/2022 — 12/13/2022
A Fluid Archive of Interspecies Communications in Hybrid Temporalities. How do we communicate with water? What hybrid communication protocols do we establish in these dialogues? How can we situate ourselves within an ecocentric context in everyday life?
Colombian artists and researchers Daniela Medina Poch and Elizabeth Gallon Droste propose a joint exploration and exchange aimed at generating dialogues, dynamics, and guidelines to reveal and disseminate aqualiteracy across Latin America.
Acknowledging water as a living archive of situated knowledge, we seek to create the Fluid Archive of Aqualiteracies, a framework of perceptions and approaches that will gather the sensitive and speculative experiences of diverse bodies: multiple ways of inhabiting and communicating with waters. We will approach everyday multispecies communications and performativities as instances of futurity in the face of the current water crisis. How can we listen to what water asks of us in different contexts and how can we project intentional messages into it?
"Today’s water is a living archive of a web of relationships occurring in multiple temporalities. It contains information about the places and bodies it has come in contact with. Thus, from water, we can access time, ancestral technologies, and its web of relational cycles."
Aqualiteracy is an expansive framework for recognizing affective relationships with water as a living being, in all its states, phases, and rhythms. Aqualiteracy means understanding the relationships in the practices of water, in dialogue with its transformations throughout time, in everyday life and in relation to different bodies. Furthermore, aqualiteracy implies the ability to feel-think and imagine with water—to receive and interpret the information it contains.
The workshop will offer a space for sensitive experimentation and collective learning in which, using various artistic formats, we will expand our visions and possibilities for communicating with different waters and bodies of water. Through these artistic explorations, we will collectively sow and harvest a living archive of aqualiteracies that will gather approaches and methodologies regarding water and the relational future of water.
The Laboratory Aqualiteracies: Feeling~Thinking with Waters (A Fluid Archive of Interspecies Communications in Hybrid Temporalities) consists of 5 sessions:
Session 1: Eyes of water: Identities. Experimental approaches from performance.
Session 2: Confluences: Imaginations. Experimental approaches from creative writing.
Session 3: Estuaries: Hybrid communications in the present. Experimental approaches from sound.
Session 4: Outflow: Communications towards the future. Experimental approaches from the speculative ritual.
Session 5: Aquifer: Gathering and collectivizing the archive.
Participation
Aqualiteracies: Feeling~Thinking with Waters is a free formative program open to a diverse audience of people who are willing to experiment and work collectively. LA ESCUELA___ will make a selection from the applications received through the participation form.
5 sessions
November 29 through December 13, 2022
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 PM (GMT -4)
Via Zoom
Public Presentation
December 13, 2022. 04:00 PM (GMT -4)
Via Zoom
Daniela Medina Poch (Bogotá, Colombia, 1992): Visual artist and researcher. Through an intersectional gaze, her work seeks to contribute to the production of ecocentric narratives to balance some of the asymmetrical power relations in the understanding and administration of environments that have been historically extracted. She has a B.A. from the Escola Massana in Barcelona and an M.A. from the Berlin University of the Arts.
Elizabeth Gallón Droste (Bogota, Colombia, 1991): Multimodal ~ artistic researcher. She approaches relational more-than-human ontologies in landscapes in crisis, focusing on actions and potentialities of re-existence, through experiences, daily practices, memories, and affections. She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin and a B.A. in Culture and Media Studies from the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the International Graduate School 'Temporalities of the Future' at the Freie Universität Berlin.
