WATER

Hydrofeminism

Ecofeminism

We personify, humanify organic shapes - a way of dominating over things?

IMPRINT

Crater Traces
a negative event.
an energetic trace.
a dynamic memorial.
Negative remnant of a past event

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman speaks of a fluid modernity
and observes a prevailing order with the main characteristics of volatility, instability, as well
as fragility. To survive in today’s world, you have to
be fluid, you have to adapt quickly to new changes
and reinvent yourself again and again. David Foster
Wallace also uses the water motif in his fish parable,
when he wants to grasp the prevailing reality
with the question “What is water?" It is important to
know one’s surroundings precisely, to be awake and
to become aware of other life worlds.

Dried out riverbeds, lakes

all water on this planet has always been there
HYDROSPHERE

a closed system: same water is found all around
an open system: as it is changing bodies constantly

“There are tides in the body."
Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dollaway
We ebb and flow across time and space – body, to body, to body, to body.
Astrida Neimanis

I see the sea rising in your eyes
& feel it arriving in mine

I've taken for granted our life
& realise sea levels have tides

in water we float with the stream
& not caring of how it might seem
I dream of a life

What if there was no sea
dried out lakes
and shapes of stones
ripples in sand
there wouldn't be fishes
and no more boats
but really
what if there was no sea
of course no islands
or humans
though, I mean, simply visually
how would it look
& how would it feel
nothing, no nothing, still would seem real

WATER TEACHES:
- flow
- relationship
- dissolvability of boundaries
- a false sense of security
humans as terrestrial creatures feel that the earth is and will remain solid beneath us. With climate change, permafrost layers being destroyed, water levels rising this is not the case anymore. & make it an existential crisis. Earth is giving way beneath our feet...

Water wants to move, find new bodies to animate, to temporarily inhabit & at times it wants to stay as is. Consistently within a body, either vast & long-living or ephemeral & momentarily, needing both to stay in an equilibrium.

Astrida Neimanis

Water preserves memory & washes it away

It is an archive of feeling
- an archive of forgetting.
Not everything should be remembered

The water is holding plural realities/histories together. Not in a linear manner

Frida Kahlo
What the Water Gave Me
1938

PEOPLE

Outside-in perspective
& tourist gaze

Auto-ethnographic approach

The linking of water and the goals of feminism, especially in regards to the work of Astrida Neimanis.

a dedication to environmental issues and an awareness of the correlation between women and nature. This notion specifically emphasises the way both nature and women are treated by a patriarchal society.

Sense of knowledge inside bodies of water
How do I let water speak about its memory?

Permafrost
A body of matter

Water in soil
10-100k years old
a time machine reflecting atmospheres from the past
through global warming this ice (water) is reintroduced into todays world. Into the active part of the Hydrosphere

time is matter
time is material
- in a place

Voices of geological ancestors

Water as a way of thinking, feeling, & working

Other ideas that float around

Archives - connected to ancient relics

What about all these archives? 
Ice core samples, mushroom, mycelium, permafrost to fashion, personal archives

the feeling of belonging (constant personal question)

The human urge to preserve and keep track. dwell in the past
study atmospheres from the past - with issue of having to generalise from (ephemeral) pieces, especially ice core samples, from specific locations/contexts (Susan Schuppli - material witness / learning from ice)

Just like in fashion, or current trends eg. the digital retrofuturism romanticising the y2k- tumbler, chaotic style, not very streamlined like today(theres 5 websites) - the early days of the internet aesthetic making a comeback with gen Z/alpha - nostalgic escapism - yet the new gen is basing this on specific media at hand, not true to the reality from that time?, creating alternative interpretations + bridging connections to older generations with their actual lived experience of y2k

does the same go for ice, water, mycelium, other than human matter based ancestral archives? - is there a different possibility of reading and interacting with their knowledge?
Of reading their traces/or no traces?

just like the new trends of digital retrofuturism liquifying the past with today - water as matter has history and present encoded - can I decode? learn how to 'better' preserve, read the past without disregarding its circular connection to the possible and present - learn how to listen to water - what could it look like for it to communicate to us through its intuitive nature?

Possible auto-ethnographic approach - the way i have used, related to, approached water in the past

ARCHIVE

rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the disastrous impact of a meteorite

TRACES

Ice core
sample

FEELING OF BELONGING

ABSURD-&
BANALITY

Thesis Proposal

MYSTICISM

SALT

AI
DATA IRL-DRIVEN

WATER

FABULATION

COMMODIFICATION
OF (FEMALE) BODY

TECHNOLOGY

ECO & HYDRO FEMINISM

TOOLS

TOPICS

SALINITY
THIRST
(ECO) TOURISM

POPCULTURE
SEXUALITY

I WANT ABSURDITY
I WANT TO GRASP ARBITRARINESS
EMERGENCE OUT OF MULTIPLICITY - SENSATION OF TOO MANY VARIABLES
ISSUES TO TACKLE: 
HOW HARMFUL IS A 'NON-POSITION'

WHAT DO I WANT TO DO WITH IT AFTER? 
VIDEO - PRODUCTION

AI
"On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations."

"..such programs are stuck in a prehuman or nonhuman phase of cognitive evolution. Their deepest flaw is the absence of the most critical capacity of any intelligence: to say not only what is the case, what was the case and what will be the case — that’s description and prediction — but also what is not the case and what could and could not be the case. Those are the ingredients of explanation, the mark of true intelligence."

"They either overgenerate (producing both truths and falsehoods, endorsing ethical and unethical decisions alike) or undergenerate (exhibiting noncommitment to any decisions and indifference to consequences)."

ESCAPISM

SALINITY OF AEGEAN