Wild Waters

Wild Waters

Wild Waters is a course that explores water in art and theory. During the course, we will discuss water and its creatures in mythology, rituals, art and theory. We will dive into an ocean of knowledge and possibilities and enhance our creativity. Through theory and playful exercises, we will dissolve, flow, grow and shape-shift together with the art we will make. We will plunge into a digital spa of watery information: From the contemporary concept of Hydro-feminism to ancient water rituals, from Hokusai’s painting The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife to Laure Provoust’s sculptural installation Touching to Sea You Through Our Extremities, from matriarchal Orcas to the mythological Selkies, from the regenerative hydras to the hybrid sea-monkeys, from the ancient water nymphs to the amphibian dragonflies. Wild Waters will help its participants embrace their own fluidity and amphibiousness and create with freedom.

  • — Part 1: 03/06/2024 at 19.00 Athens time
    (GMT: 17:00, EST: Noon, PST: 09:00)

    — Part 2: 05/06/2024 at 19.00 Athens time
    (GMT: 17:00, EST: Noon, PST: 09:00)

    — Part 3: 07/06/2024 at 19.00 Athens time
    (GMT: 17:00, EST: Noon, PST: 09:00)

  • 175 Euros.

  • Martha Panagiotopoulou is a multi-media artist. She holds an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art with distinction and a Diploma in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. Her work has been exhibited both outdoors and in indoor spaces like GoMA. She was recently awarded the NEON scholarship prize, and her work was shortlisted and included at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).

  • The course is held via Zoom. All necessary materials will be shipped to you from Descoverartists.

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Course overview

  • Introduction to Hydro-feminism (coined by gender studies scholar Astida Neimanis).

  • Water in traditional customs and performative Arts.

  • Real and mythological water creatures in Art.