Interconnection: On Bodies of Water (Съединяване: За телата от вода)

type: kolektivní
place of exhibition: Swimming Pool
date of exhibition: 2019/06/28 - 2019/08/04

note:
Water not only constitutes over 80% of the human body (the percentage being even higher in a number of animal and plant species), but also interconnects us with all organic and inorganic matter on Earth in constant circulation, blurring boundaries. As if each living creature, each cell was an island in an endless sea, inevitably linked together.

The exhibition focuses on the motif of water as a condition for life, on circulation and merging of life forms as well as on the search for a non-human perspective where the human is only a part rather than the highest life form within the ecosystem. This conceptual framework was inspired by Australian theorist Astrida Neimanis, who proposes the term “hydrofeminism” (elaborated most broadly in her 2017 book Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology) to reflect the post-humanist, materialistic notion of the subject/self as fluid and ontologically related to “others”.

The long-term project Islands: Possibilities of Togetherness involves a number of partner organizations and considers issues of togetherness, while also addressing themes such as sustainability, ecology, utopia vs dystopia, ethics, communication and symbiosis The first exhibition under the project, titled (Dis)connection, took place at Kunstvereinging Diepeinheim earlier this year and focused on the essential questions of the whole project: How can we be together? Who or what can we connect with in order to start dealing with a planetary crisis? How can we continuously connect with “the other” and be together without closing the circuit? Interconnection, held at Swimming Pool, focuses on aspects of coexistence and collectivity, employing a particular a planetary, interspecies perspective.

Interconnection: On Bodies of Water (Съединяване: За телата от вода)

person   born
Biocca Catherine   1984    
Chobanov Valko   1991    
Inescu Nona   1991    
Nalbantova Maria   1990    
Nepraš Jakub   6. 3. 1981    
Nikl Petr   8. 2. 1960    
Rezaire Tabita   1989    
Rossí Karolina   15. 2. 1983    
Sterec Pavel   22. 5. 1985    
Střížková Johana   31. 12. 1984    

Interconnection: On Bodies of Water (Съединяване: За телата от вода)

institution, city, address
Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého, Praha, _
Swimming Pool, Sofie (Sofia), Tsar Osvoboditel 10, fl. 5
Чешки център София (České centrum Sofie), Sofie (Sofia), Rakovski 100

Interconnection: On Bodies of Water (Съединяване: За телата от вода)

person   born
Čechová Veronika   1989    
Jindrová Tereza   8. 6. 1988    

Interconnection: On Bodies of Water (Съединяване: За телата от вода)

katalog kolektivní
  published   title (subtitle)
  2019   Interconnection: On Bodies of Water