Hydro poetics and politics

In the course of HYDRO POETICS AND POLITICS, we create and think about ourselves and our ecosystem by swimming in the water, cleansing the water, feeling the water,
because there is knowledge in water and everything that is water.

In the streams, in the rivers, in the ocean.
In the layers of permafrost, in the sleep of polar bears and in the fat of seals.
In the swamp, in the mud, in the skin of frogs, in the silence of carp.
In the cries of orcas, in the migration of shrimps, in the tentacles of octopuses.

There is knowledge in my saliva, in my blood, in my urine.
In my amniotic fluid, in my breast milk, in my tears.
In my cells and in the primordial ocean.

We must fight armed with this knowledge,
desertification, the water war, the climate crisis.
Water is knowledge, memory, empathy... life.

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The course applies the theories of hydrofeminism to lawmaking processes, diplmatic relations, and commonplace sewage systems.
Using the tools of poetry and stream of consciousness writing, the participants try to develop alternative solutions to global problems concerning water.

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Recommended reading:

Bodies of Water: posthuman feminist phenomenology -Astrida Neimanis

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K.Le Guin

Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene - Donna Haraway