#hydrofeminism

[dmcreativestudio]

On a geological scale, we have all arisen out of the same primordial soup, gestated by species upon watery species that have gifted their morphology to new iterations and articulations.

Neimanis Astrida

[embodiedlistening]

Honestly, I just keep coming back to this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp1wo1irkQA

[dmcreativestudio]

Mami Wata -Water Spirit

Mami Wata is often described as a mermaid-like figure, with a woman's upper body (often nude) and the hindquarters of a fish or serpent.

[tastbaarmanifest]

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We are all bodies of water. To think embodiment as watery belies the understanding of bodies that we have inherited from the dominant Western metaphysical tradition. As watery, we experience ourselves less as isolated entities, and more as oceanic eddies: I am a singular, dynamic whorl dissolving in a complex, fluid circulation. The space between ourselves and our others is at once as distant as the primeval sea, yet also closer than our own skin—the traces of those same oceanic beginnings still cycling through us, just pausing as this bodily thing we call mine. Water is between bodies, and of bodies, before us and beyond us, but also very presently this body, too. Our comfortable categories of thought begin to dissolve. Water entangles our bodies in relations of gift, debt, theft, complicity, difference, and relation.

Astrida Neimanis, “Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water” in Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice

[utoprocessing]

[dmcreativestudio]

“I don’t want the human to be in nature, as if nature is a container. … thinking isn’t the other of nature.” By drawing out encounters with the Kurdish autonomous movement in Northern Syria (Kurdistan) in the first part of the work Who Is Afraid of Ideology?, Marwa Arsanios continues her ongoing “research and reconsiderations... Read More

Marwa Arsanios

As a controlling and violent mechanism, the (welfare) state has constructed the idea of nature around modernist principles, whereby nature and people are divided entities, pitted against each other rather than being together. 

[14:45] The less people are aware of their links to Nature the more likely they are to become liberal individuals which have only loyal to the State.

[utoprocessing]

Exhibition Announcement!!!

We are delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition UTOPROCESSING, at Y2 Damsterdiep, Groningen, as part of Maydays 2021 🖥️💦 23rd - 30th May, 15:00-20:00 every day, opening at 17:00 on the first day 💦🖥️ Pipes and tubes run through our bodies like fibre optic cables under the sea; carrying data from one component to another, cleansing and cooling the system, and merging all parts into one comprehensive working unit. Utoprocessing is a mixed media exhibition by Martina Priehodova, Lily Dollner, Julius Jonker, and Robert IJserinkhuijsen. Combining sculpture, installation, film, sound, painting, and photography, our project explores hydrofeminism and the ways in which transhumanism can be reconciled in the human body.

[utoprocessing]

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