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“By tuning into these bodily molecularities as lived, we might also attune ourselves empathically towards other bodies of water, beyond us.” (Neimanis, 2022)

I would like to invite you to explore and move beside and within a body of water to explore if it opens a sense of connection beyond the individual self. This is inspired by the concept of different vessels of water, one being our human body and the other being something that holds it, and how similar and connected we are. I would like this task to open up questions about:

1)        What happens to your perception of self when considering the relation to watery worlds?

a.        Senses to consider:

                                                                                          ii.         Size

                                                                                       iii.         Distance

                                                                                       iv.         Movement

2)        How much does this task enable us to “attune ourselves to our than human-than-humanness”?

Reference:

Neimanis, A. (2022) ‘How to think (as) a body of water’:, Lonely Vectors, pp. 150–155. doi:10.2307/jj.13632418.21.

When you are ready, here are the instructions of the practical task:

What you will need –

·      A clean body of water, e.g. bowl, bucket, bath, pool, stream, sea…you choose!

·      Suitable clothing and towels.

·      Paper and writing material

What to do –

1)        Comfortable position yourself beside the water in a way that fits how you feel at this moment.

2)        If safe to do so, close your eyes, or soften your gaze to bring attention to watery areas in your face:

a.        Eyes, Nose, Mouth, sweat on the skin?

b.        Consider 1 -2 of these areas and consider:  
When are these flowing with more liquid?
How much volume?

 Where does it travel to?
What shape is it when it moves?

3)        Visualise the liquid absorbing into the bloodstream and follow your bloods journey around you – acknowledge the litres of liquid coursing around you.

4)        Take 3+ breaths to sit and acknowledge how you are a body of liquid.

5)        Turn your attention to the watery body beside you.

a.        What shape is it?

c.        Where are its borders?

d.        How does it move?

6)        Make contact with the water with any body part as much as you want.

a.        Does this change its shape?

b.        How does it move against your own borders?

7)        Explore and play with moving in and out of the water, considering these 2 points.

8)        Finally, imagine you are 1 vessel, how can you be as 1?

9)        Exit the water and get warm.

Reflections: What stood out for you? What discoveries or re-discoveries did you encounter about yourself when considering yourself as liquid?

I also really like how Ruth talked about this idea at the end of podcast. (Will add!)

Hydrofeminism as a "radical collectivity...we are all in this kind of a fluid continuum...what does that mean for the boundaries of the individual self and ways of relating to beings"

also love how water is so everyday, drinking peeing, washing the materiality of it in our lives...

Image sources - mama eye

Main image photography by Roots.and.film

Like the ideas around this. Quite long to listen but image beautiful.

Liked moving from skin to inside, to consider the eyeball, to feel the exchange of air and moisture in the nose, saliva...a grounding process as well as more aware of my watery nature.

The shape of he droplet on the leaf, like a gem or a diamond glistening and shimmering, delicate to approach it. It had its own edges it seemed.

The film of the surface tension, I was aware of a boundary place of touch of not breaking the surface almost bouncing off it with my finger, touching the surface and the balance and poise of the water resting on the leaf and wobbling. Then the intense sensation of coolness as my finger broke the surface and I wondered about where the coolness lies...is it in my feeling or is that drop coolness, who holds the coolness. The coolness overlaps both of us. When i lift my finger away the surface reforms again as if i'd never been there, sealed up not cut by my intrusion apart from the other drop that was disturbed and ran to join it.

I'd like you to look after an ice cube for a day, hour, 10 minutes, whatever time span suits you ,you choose. Once it is out of the fridge how do you take care of this body of water? Perhaps it goes in and out of the fridge? Perhaps you just let it melt slowly in your hand? Perhaps the water goes on your body, in your body, your body and it touch perhaps not just with the hands, perhaps the melted water goes on to water something else or join with something else. See what happens and how you experience this care.

PD: I always send some tasks to them so is not so awkward that I ask for this... but sometimes they give answer really late... will see.

Spanish:

Hola! Estoy haciendo una colaboración internacional para el máster, con mis compañeras Becca e Eve, y estamos investigando sobre prácticas colectivas de mujeres en relación al agua. Por te quería pedir si puedes registrar ya sea en foto o video (según tu deseo y lo que tú entiendes de esto) tres momentos con agua:

1.- adentro del agua

2.- tu cuerpo con agua

3.- agua en tu contexto

Esto es por una investigación que estamos haciendo para un Simposio que se llevará a cabo en Londres en julio, por lo que, quizás las imágenes las usaría en ese contexto y para compartirlas con mi curso. Por lo que, si me las envías, se asume que aceptas esto. Un abrazo y espero que te embales. Si necesitas más información me cuentas.

English:

Hi! I'm doing an international collaboration for my master's degree, with my colleagues Becca and Eve, and we are doing research on women's collective practices in relation to water. And I wanted to ask you if you can record either in photo or video (according to your desire and what you understand about this) three moments with water:

1.- inside the water

2.- your body with water

3.- water in your context

This is for a research we are doing for a Symposium that will be held in London in July, so, maybe I would use the images in that context and to share them with my course. So if you send them to me, it is assumed that you accept this. Best regards and I hope you'll get excited. If you need more information or if you want more assignments, let me know.

Shall we reinact the opening image ?! jajaja

Global Water Dances.docx

hallo my dears here is a draft plan for the workshop in the wood by the river that I will be doing alongside the Global Water Dances event with my group of women. I would be grateful if you can look and comment, particularly the bits in red ! If you can and can understand my notes !! Thinking about collective practices as women and the river.