Apurahat ja residenssipaikat Tiede ja taide Aquatic Encounters: Art and Hydrofeminisms Päähakija PhD Suoyrjö Elina ja työryhmä Hankkeen jäsenet Kuukausiapurahan saajat:Suoyrjö Elina, Khodyreva Anastasia Myöntösumma 107300 € Tukimuoto Yleinen rahoitushaku Alat SukupuolentutkimusVisuaalisten taiteiden tutkimus Myöntövuosi 2019 Jos omistat hankkeen, voit kirjautua sisään ja lisätä hankkeen tietoja. Kirjaudu sisään Jaa: Takaisin apurahalistaukseen Aquatic Encounters is a two-year research project, which aims to summon, employ and activate knowledges from the fields of contemporary art, hydrofeminisms, ecofeminisms, and feminist new materialist theory. The project is driven by the simple, or rather, simply terrifying fact that water as a resource and an all-encompassing matter is radically shared by human and non-human bodies - bodies which are porous and are never sealed. We are specifically interested in the affective capacities of hydrofeminisms to mobilize embodied thinking about water as a body that is in an urgent condition of stress. We suggest that to think about fluid and malleable water with visual arts is an explicitly political matter. Grounding the project in our expertise as feminist affect scholars working with new materialisms, we locate ourselves, artworks, artistic practices, and their affective powers to awake and mobilize human watery bodies by offering aquatic artistic encounters with various embodiments in crisis. We claim that the usage of water/watery/hydro or other derivatives in arts are never mere metaphors or poetic sociolinguistic fixations. The project consists of four different kinds of elements and process-based outputs: research period with field trips for the grant holders, a public reading group programme, public lectures with leading researchers in hydrofeminisms, and a publication. Loppuraportin tiivistelmä Aquatic Encounters is a two-year research project, which has aimed to summon, employ and activate knowledges from the fields of contemporary art, hydrofeminisms, affect theory, ecofeminisms, and feminist new materialist theory. The project has been driven by the simple, or rather, simply terrifying fact that water as a resource and an all-encompassing matter has always been radically shared by human and non-human bodies - bodies which have always been porous and never sealed. We have been specifically interested in the affective capacities of hydrofeminisms to mobilize embodied thinking about water as a body in an urgent condition of stress. We have suggested that to think about fluid and malleable water with visual arts should be an explicitly political matter. Grounding the project in our expertise as feminist affect scholars working with new materialisms, we have located ourselves, artworks, artistic practices, and their affective powers to awake and mobilize human watery bodies by offering aquatic artistic encounters with various embodiments in crisis. We claim that the usage of water/watery/hydro or other derivatives in arts are never mere metaphors or poetic sociolinguistic fixations. In addition to our research, the project has consisted of two elements and process-based outputs: a public online reading group programme realized during the pandemic in 2021 with invited guest hosts and speakers, and an experimental publication we received additional funding for from Kone in 2022. The publication is launched in 2023. The project had to be adjusted to the conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and international public gatherings or research trips couldn’t be organised. Takaisin apurahalistaukseen