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.

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.