WE ARE WATER

Feeling responsible like all its inhabitants—for planet Earth and its resources, including water—I propose a creative approach. Our attention, time, and energy devoted to considering how to halt and reverse the process of water depletion can yield results. If not immediately, then perhaps in the future. This awareness of ours is intended to provoke reflection and shifts reality into a better one.

During various artistic activities, we will discuss, create, and reflect aloud on what we can do to make Earth a safe place. What we can do to ensure its natural resources, especially water, don't disappear, and that we don't disappear with them.

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1. WORKSHOPS
First activity – workshops. The strip of fabric on which the embroidery will be created will be a symbolic RIVER. The participants embroidered their self-portraits on the fabric on both sides of the linen strip. In addition to portraits on a strip of fabric, we may embroider plants, aquatic animals, stones, and shells. After a workshop I have painted on the fabric "water memories" of each participant. I want to conduct such workshops in different cities, villages – ideally in nature - close to water.

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​The first workshop took place on July 6th of this year at Poniatówka Beach, organized in cooperation with the Praga Museum of Warsaw. Special thanks to Katarzyna Kuzko-Zwierz. Photographic documentation of the workshop: Ula Podgórska.​ Second workshop took place in Gniazdo - Nest - Climate Activism Center. Photos: Maria Antoniak

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2. PERFORMANCES

The second activity are performances titled "Waking Up the Water” with usage of blue fabrics. Recently, in Warsaw, I organized such a performance entitled "Waking Up the Fountain." Our "stage" and inspiration was a Warsaw fountain that has been inactive for the past few years. In our performance, we conjured water up from the ground using blue fabric. The performance was attended by: Dominika Budkus, Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska, Iga Piwko i ja. 

 

3. INTERVENTIOS

Lately in park Książęcy in Warsaw I "revived" the inactive Oligocene water spring by imitating water using fabric.

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