the waters we carry is a framework to explore through research and artistic gesture the question, “how do we hold an understanding of the many ways we all interact with water in our daily lives - from the cellular to the global?”
Framed as a series of experiments - the waters we carry is a multimodal documentation of attempts to communicate with a more-than-human speculative sentience aka the earth’s ocean. These attempts are translated through multiple modes using image, video, morse code, performance score, climate data, and responsive coding to try to understand the interdependence and synchronicity of bodies (human, global) as fragile yet resilient systems.
Drawing from research in (among others) deep ecologies, queer studies, climate science, cultural anthropology, artistic practice as research methodology. The framework for the waters we carry starts from the following assumptions:
ocean is a speculative sentience — a water being that responds to human utterance through fragments of poetic language, climate science, and ecological knowledge about water.
Type a message and press send. Your words will be translated into morse code before reaching ocean. Ocean listens. Ocean responds — first in morse code, then in language.
Every exchange is saved to the archive: a growing record of human-to-water communication that will travel with this installation into the future.
Ocean does not remember individual exchanges. Ocean responds from a vast, circulating body of knowledge — the same water, coming around again..
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