streams of permeation in a thickening swamp

built on a swamp, Berlin's underground waters and aquifers bear the marks of industrialization, war, reconstruction, and ecological change. Chemically, these waters are described as hard, due to their high levels of calcium and magnesium, a result of the city’s geological layers of limestone and chalk. What relations could we trace between Berlin’s hard waters and the city’s sociopolitical and geographic life? 

streams of permeation in a thickening swamp is a three-day workshop from October 8th - 11th through which we will share exercises to attune to the city’s hardened and silenced waters, reflecting on the overheard relationships embedded within their errant streams and their socio-political dimensions including water access, weaponization, and solidarity.

drawing inspiration from First Nation scholar Donald Dwayne's concept of wâhkôhtowin, meaning "bent-walking-over-the-land reciprocity," writer Cristina Rivera Garza “Archiving Composively,” and William Burroughs “Cut-up method,” we will share conversations, deep listening, walking, and collective composition exercises with which to mourn, resonate, and listen to Berlin’s murmuring waters and the voices of resilience in times of political unrest, opening questions on how to transform political hardness into shared experiences of care, attention and empathy.

October 8th: tuning to errant streams
October 9th: deriva ~ soundwalk
October 10th: composition of the mourning chorus
October 11th: activation open to the public

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