Water Leads The Way
Das Wasser weist den Weg / Water Leads The Way, Workshop-Trailer, 2024
Water
With all its different expressions of life water has become a guiding force in my artistc endavour. I attend to its movement and form and let my self be lead to co-create with it. I work on facilitating water-lead transformations in art and society.
Oaxen, 2013, analog C-print, 188x125cm, Sweden
Water, the human being, climate and regeneration
I work with water since 2009 when I lived in Sweden at the shore of the Baltic Sea for 5 years. Many studies of water and of the qualities of the sea lead me to start the project WeSea. WeSea amed to bring stakeholders around the sea together to witness and listen to the sea’s future. Later I invited water-researchers, activists, water-strategists, farmers and artists for a conference in Germany with the title „Ecology of Consciousness“ and co-created the workshop-format „Das Wasser weist den Weg“ (Film above). All of this again lead me to co-found the Training for Regeneration of water, ecology and landscape-sensing. Throughout all of those years I have intensively worked to meet the Baltic and other waters through my attentional practices and my fotographic work. The analoge fotographic works „Oaxen“, among others, have been created at the shore of the Baltic Sea in this quest. Through this practice I hold an inner conversation with the climates and atmospheres of the being of Nature. At a stipend with Und.Jetzt! and my residency at the Wuppertal Institut I developed the Video-Series Klima.machen?! and Climate.Sculpting.
The Oceanic Feeling
Climate.Sculpting
In a series of interwies with artist, lawmakers, scientists, polititians and activists, I explores the potentials of working with climate in an artistic and renewed way. Climate.Sculpting works with the question of climate as an artistic co-creation. The imaginative and creative work with climate as a co-creation between the human and the natural world could create atmospheres of health and planetary well-being.
Isabella Lövin is a Swedish politician for the Green Party. She served as Minister for International Development Cooperation, Minister for the Environment and as honorary Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden. She is the author of the book „The Oceanic Feeling“.
The Baltic Sea
Listening to the Baltic Sea
What is the potential of listening to the Baltic Sea as an organism in the middle of 11 countries that all give their waters to this one common element? How do we have to live together around the Baltic Sea so that the outcome of our societal activites is healthy water quality, biodiversity, paradiselike underwater life?
Peter Senge is a systems scientist and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning.
Oaxen 1, 2013, analog C-print, 188x125cm, Sweden
The Embassy of the Baltic Sea
In a transnational context, representation is executed through embassies. Today, the voice of the Baltic Sea is not being heard, it is not represented when decisions affecting its health are made. The Embassy of the Baltic Sea builds on the vision of the interconnected well-being of human society and nature in the Baltic Sea watershed, through recognition of the rights of the Baltic Sea to flourish and its more-than-human voices to be represented in decision-making. The mission of the Embassy is to act as a space for practising representation of the more-than-human voices; to serve as a convening space for dialogue and collaboration between actors at all levels from a mutual viewpoint of respect for the rights of the Baltic Sea; to share concrete examples of integrating human flourishing with the whole living community in the Baltic Sea bioregion; and to support diverse ways of knowing from sources like law, science, art, traditional ecological knowledge and regenerative design.
The idea of the Embassy of the Baltic Sea stands in the context of an eu-wide network of initiatives representing water-bodies like lakes, rivers and seas. A group of us represents the Baltic Sea. Meet us here:
Rhine Studies, 2023, water colour, 40x20cm
