The Water that Moves You
sound-walk by waterybeings
image: participants during the trial walk of The Water that Moves You in November 2022, photo by Tuba Kiliç
The Water that Moves You by waterybeings looks at the past, present and future of the New Waterway Canal (Nieuwe Waterweg). It plays with possible scenarios of living with water. Following the trial from last year, we have finalised the production. We invite you to walk with us along the Maas in Rotterdam between the Erasmus Bridge and the Willems Bridge guided by our sound-walk and a booklet. June and me will be present during the public walks on the dates and times below.
- Sunday, Sept. 17th at 3pm
- Sunday, Sept. 24th at 3pm
- Saturday, Sept. 30th at 3pm
The starting location is next to the Spido boat stop on Willemsplein.
To participate in this sound-walk you will need to bring a pair of comfortable weatherproof headphones and download the Echoes app on your smartphone. The echoes app allows audio-tracks to be triggered by geolocation, which is essential for our sound-walk.
If you want to participate, please send an email to spill@waterybeings.nl, it would be helpful for our organisation.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
waterybeings
- Nele Brökelmann & June Yu
ABOUT
Together, waterybeings, depart from the history of the New Waterway Canal (Nieuwe Waterweg) which has lead us to further investigate different forms of water bodies and watery contexts: scientific, domestic, commercial, bodily, ‘natural’ and fictional. For example, we have used different apparatuses to measure, observe and engage with rainwater, drinking water, river and seawater. We submerged ourselves in various watery tales, from mythology to futuristic fiction to historical and archival accounts.
From these trajectories we learned about the way our bodies engage with the environment in relation to how we understand ourselves as waterybeings. With that in mind, we returned to our starting point: the history of the Nieuwe Waterweg.
We developed our own speculative narratives based on our encounters, reaching into the past, the present and the future simultaneously. These narratives are influenced by the drastic changes the Nieuwe Waterweg brought about Rotterdam’s and its citizens' relationship with the waterway. We combined all of these into the audio walk that we are inviting you to partake: The Water that Moves You
CREDITS
A warm thank you to everyone who made this project and the accompanying booklet possible.
Sound artist: Joshua Thies
Sound Studio: iii
Voice actors: Thom Driver, Guy Livingston, Wilhelmina Sederholm, June Yu
Print workshop: Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag, Stencilwerck
This project is funded by Gemeente Rotterdam.
Matters of Being
image: taken during Matters of Being #6 – Other Worlds (Georgie Brinkman, Georgina Kosmatou, and Dario di Paolantonio) by Francesco Enriquez, video work on the screen by Georgina Kosmatou
Matters of Being is a filmscreening series at iii curated by Nele Brökelmann where artists and independent filmmakers screen and discuss their works with each other and the audience.
If you are interested in taking part in this filmscreening series please send an email with the subject line Matters of Being screening to: info@nelebrokelmann.com Make sure to include a description, trailer or a (password secured) link to your audiovisual work, the year the work was made and in which context it was made.
Unstable Ground - Mirroring Fields (fourth iteration)
image: taken during online residency168H (Febr 2023), while performing field research in Meijendeel, the dunes around Wassenaar
For Mirroring Fields I am performing recurring field research in areas along the sea around The Hague (NL). Starting to engage with these areas during the one week online residency168H made me realise, that noticing in an environment familiar to me takes repetition and thus learning to get into resonance with the subleties.
When I am walking I am looking for gradients, differences, distances and continuities in colours, shapes and heights - things that have struck my curiosity before and seem to create meaning. I like to look closely or create a distance, but in this environment I feel lost in-between exploring and remembering.
TRACES
2023.09
10 | Matters of Being #10 with Astrid Ardagh, Catherine Ostraya, and Finn Stevenhagen (filmscreening series at iii)
reading Stephen King's On Writing
2023.08
reading Stephen King's On Writing and re-reading Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
2023.07
21 | feature for Metropolis M: Leaving room for silence and hesitation - in conversation with artist Sanne Kabalt
05 | De Octopus: Conclusie by Roeliena Aukema, Esther van Rosmalen, Eef Schoolmeesters and me
re-reading Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost
2023.06
29 | completion of The Artist as Teacher course: qualification to teach in Dutch Higher Education
28 | waterybeings: voice actor recordings for the soundwalk The Water that Moves You with Guy Livingston and Wilhelmina Sederholm at iii's soundstudio with assistance of Kay Churcher
26 | Unstable Ground - Mirroring Fields: 168H online residency reflection
19 | waterybeings: voice actor recordings for the soundwalk The Water that Moves You with Thom Driver and June Yu at iii's soundstudio with assistance of Kay Churcher
06 | waterybeings: learning cyano-printing at Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
2023.05
31 | waterybeings: learning riso-printing at Grafische Werkplaats Den Haag
23 | De Octopus: Wie is het publiek als kunst de publieke zaak dient? a reflective essay by Joram Kraaijeveld
19 | Unstable Ground: Field Research #12 - Westduinpark
17 | De Octopus: Reflectie: de hechtende draad van het artistieke proces a reflective essay by Zeynep Kubat
09 | De Octopus: Delen tussen de deeltjes a reflective essay by Philippine Hoegen
03 | De Octopus: Artistieke productie. Over het maken van kunst a reflective essay by Liza Voetman
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
2023.04
16 | Matters of Being #9 with Bao Dachen, Ange Neveu, Soyun Park, and Alice dos Reis (filmscreening series at iii)
05 | exploratory video-essay #4 The Gap (January 2023)
video-still of The Gap, the third iteration of my ongoing Unstable Ground research
This exploratory video-essay is one of the outcomes of my one month research residency at KH Messen in Ålvik, Norway.
The residency was made possible with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
reading Joseph Vogl's Über das Zaudern
2023.03
29 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 08 - welke handeling te verrichten with Thomas Bakker and Mariska de Groot moderated by Eef Schoolmeesters
24 | waterybeings: walking research with Kamila Wolszczak
22 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 07 - schrijven in de zin van noteren with Dagmar Marent and Sam Scheuermann moderated by me
15 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 06 - transformatie van het kunstwerk with Julia Geerlings and Lily van der Stokker moderated by Esther van Rosmalen
13-17 | The Way of the Octopus - teaching a workshop-course for the ArtScience Interfaculty during the exchange weeks with the Composition and Sonology departments
08 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 05 - de vertaling van het kunstwerk with Monika Dahlberg and Marjolein van de Ven moderated by Roeliena Aukema
04 | Unstable Ground - Mirroring Fields | Field Research #11 - Westduinpark
Looking back at the photographs of the various field research trips I conducted in the Westduinpark, I am wondering if we humans need to be out in the open sea to experience indistinctness.
Our environment, the one which appears familiar to us, holds cues for our human condition to situate ourselves. In the brief moments we allow these markers to blend in with the surroundings, we might encounter the world in its own mode of existence.
01 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 04 - het publieke delen with Eva Langerak and Susanne Khalil Yusef moderated by Roeliena Aukema
reading Franz Kafka's Das Schloß and Theodor Storm's The Rider on the White Horse
2023.02
22 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 03 - momentum van reflectie with Vedran Koljar and Liza Wolters moderated by Esther van Rosmalen
20-26 | 168H online residency: Unstable Ground - Mirroring Fields
15 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 02 - doorgaand procedé with Iris Bouwmeester and Maureen Jonker moderated by Eef Schoolmeesters
08 | De Octopus: Podcast publication episode 01 - een sprong in het diepe with An Onghena and Jorieke Rottier moderated by me
reading Franz Kafka's Das Schloß
2023.01
03-31 | research residency at KH Messen in Ålvik, Norway
image: taken while travelling in Norway, March 2015
The residency was made possible with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
reading Stefan aus dem Siepen's Das Seil and Franz Kafka's Das Schloß
2022.12
14 | feature for Metropolis M: Understanding ancestral knowledge - talking to Natasha Tontey about her Indigenous roots
reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions and Joseph Vogl's Über das Zaudern
2022.11
26 & 27 | waterybeings: as part of our research we conducted two audio-walks with invitees - The Water that Moves You
15 | de octopus: podcast recording for my shared research with Witte Rook into artistic practices - in conversation with An Onghena and Jorieke Rottier about the leap at the beginning of each (artistic) process
08 | feature for Metropolis M: ‘I love thinking of water as something that washes away rigid habits’ – a conversation with artist Lucy Cordes Engelman
07 | de octopus: podcast recording for my shared research with Witte Rook into artistic practices - in conversation with Dagmar Marent and Sam Scheuermann about the role of writing in the sense of note-taking
reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions, Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and Joseph Vogl's Über das Zaudern
2022.10
reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions and Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
2022.09
28 | feature for Metropolis M: ‘What is the caring thing to do now?’ – a conversation with artist lucie draai
25 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #8 – Approaching Distances (Alexis Bellavance & Stefan Pavlović)
reading Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions
2022.08
reading Aristotle's Politics and James Joyce's Ulysses
2022.05
26 | waterybeings: test-run for watery workshop in fall
21 | review for Metropolis M: Spiralling towards a pluriversal world - Aldo E. Ramos at A Tale of a Tub
03 | Destination Unknown podcast published in which I speak about the last phase of my research during the Destination Unknown 2021 residency, hosted by Valerie van Holten
reading Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer
2022.04
28 | video documentation of Difference across Distance (2021, Unstable Ground iteration 02) published by and presented during Destination Unknown 2021 exhibition in Tegelen, recorded and edited by Hester van Tongerlo
03 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #7 – Points of Contact (Margarida Albino, Sophie Czich, and Armand Lesecq)
reading Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and James Lovelock's GAIA
2022.03
reading Marina van Zuylen's The Plenitude of Distraction
2022.02
11 | review for Metropolis M: Lurking beneath the surface - Oscar Murillo at KM21
10 | collective [蒸汽船] Steamboat writing: [说话中] Being in Utterance (v.3)
reading Siri Hustvedt's Living, Thinking, Looking
2021.12
Metropolis M, Nieuwe Collectie bijlage of magazine nr. 6 2021/2022 DEC/JAN): Michael Tedja, Out One Big King, 2002-2012
reading Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht, Lynn Margulis' and Dorion Sagan's Acquiring Genomes, and Gilles Deleuze's The Fold
2021.11
10 | waterybeings: Field Research #1 - site-specific exploration of body-water-entanglement
reading Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht, Lynn Margulis' and Dorion Sagan's Acquiring Genomes, and Gilles Deleuze's The Fold
2021.10
31 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #6 – Other Worlds (Georgie Brinkman, Georgina Kosmatou, and Dario di Paolantonio)
reading Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover and Gilles Deleuze's The Fold
2021.09
24-26 | Destination Unknown exhibition in Tegelen
24 | review for Metropolis M: The Artist's Novel: David Maroto talking to Chris Kraus, Cally Spooner and others at Page Not Found
05 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #5 – Celebrating Impermanence (Heart of a Dog by Laurie Anderson)
03 | review for Metropolis M: Roaming the city - Walks/wandelingen #1: The Hague
01 | waterybeings: Field Trip #4 - following the river from Maassluis to Hoek van Holland
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Lynn Margulis' Acquiring Genomes and James Lovelock's GAIA
Destination Unknown residency
2021.08
20-22 | Destination Unknown residency: Unstable Ground - Field Research #3
19 | waterybeings: visiting Stadsarchief Rotterdam
06 | collective [蒸汽船] Steamboat writing: [说话中] Being in Utterance (v.2)
Metropolis M, Eindexamens 2021 bijlage of magazine nr. 4 2021 AUG/SEP: Natalia Irena Nikoniuk en Bo Wielders - Herhalen zonder Einde, Ryan Lim Zi Yi - Vanuit de Ooghoeken, Leos - Sprekend, bij Gebrek aan Visuele Stimuli, Alice West
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Lynn Margulis' Acquiring Genomes and James Lovelock's GAIA
Destination Unknown residency
2021.07
31 | waterybeings: Field Trip #3 - river walk
22-24 | Destination Unknown residency: Unstable Ground - Field Research #1 & #2
16-18 | waterybeings: Field Trip #2 - watery embodiment
14 | review for Metropolis M: Graduation Shows 2021 - KABK the Hague
08-11 | Trixie Open Studies
05 | waterybeings: Field Trip #1 - Maasvlakte of June Yu’s and my artist/research duo waterybeings. We are investigating different aspects of living with and through water, at the moment in the form of a case-study on Rotterdam’s intimate relationship with water.
04 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #4 – Flickering Present (Tony Conrad)
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, Lynn Margulis' Acquiring Genomes and James Lovelock's GAIA
Destination Unknown residency
2021.06
28 | review for Metropolis M: “You died today.” - meditating on your own disintegrating body with Vibeke Mascini and Babs Bakels
13 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #3 – Aspiring the Unknown (Karina Beumer and Anna Moreno)
11 | review for Metropolis M: Wespen, waterdamp en zonnebrand - wandelen over het strand met geurkunstenaar Frank Bloem
reading Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2021.05
26 | feature for Metropolis M: Learning from non-human agents - visiting Minne Kersten’s Constant Companion at Hotel Maria Kapel
23 | feature for Metropolis M: De maker achter de maker - Charly van Rest over goed kijken en luisteren
03 | feature for Metropolis M: Thinking in public - A portrait of Shimmer
reading Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2021.04
12 | collective [蒸汽船] Steamboat writing: [说话中] Being in Utterance (v.1)
05 | feature for Metropolis M: Where are those stars to shoot for? - in conversation with artist and writer Mayis Rukel
reading Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2021.03
09 | review for Metropolis M: How to become we-beings: A long-term vision for art, cultural workers and the climate crisis at the JVE
reading Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2021.01-02
WINDOW ❤️ LAB is a series of window-based exhibitions created as a dialogue between the members of TR/X/E. The works are fully available to view and interact with from the street.
the accompanying exploratory essay #3 Shifting Perspectives (February 2021)
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2020.10-12
“Can a platform encourage us to wander through the non-linear layers of the world?”
Research Residency and Process Presentation, at Witte Rook in Breda. Made possible with kind support of Stroom Den Haag in the form of research subsidy.
more info and the video essay Platform | noun, often attributive (part 1, november 2020)
the exploratory essay #2 A Matter of Time that forms the backbone for the video essay
an interview that was prepared during my research residency at Witte Rook
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence and Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
2020.09
13 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #2 – Concepts of Belonging (Toshie Takeuchi, Jasper Kuipers, Matteo Marangoni)
04 - 25 | [蒸汽船] Steamboat exhibition, workshops and collective drift @ Trixie in The Hague (NL)
For more info click here.
2020.08
23 | [蒸汽船] Steamboat Online Artist Talk
Nele Brökelmann, Katarina Petrović and June Yu in conversation with Hans Overvliet (ruimteCAESUUR) and Esther van Rosmalen (Witte Rook)
2020.07-08
07.11 - 08.23 | [蒸汽船] Steamboat exhibition at ruimteCAESUUR in Middelburg (NL), organised in collaboration with Witte Rook
For more info click here.
2020.06
07 | filmscreening: Matters of Being #1 – Ordinary Sounds (Alvin Lucier, William Carlos Williams)
2020.05
My article Hallways: Imaginary passages got published as part of a special issue on Brutal International Law in the journal New Perspectives
2020.02
reading Bruno Latour's An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns
2020.01
writing about hallways as imaginary passages and thinking about structures of support
2019.12
01 |
participated in The Other Book Fair with Trixie at The Grey Space in the Middle in the Hague (NL)
reading Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think
2019.11
16-17 | participating in the Creative Coding workshop at iii in the Hague (NL) by Sabrina Verhage
reading Naomi Klein's On Fire
2019.10
writing about anchor points, how they resonate with each other, change through time and create a framework for a reality - an experience of the world
reading Hartmut Rosa's Unverfügbarkeit
2019.09
thinking about origins, anchor points and transversive signifiers
reading Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's Futurability - The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
20-22 | participating in the Training for the Future at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum (DE) curated by Jonas Staal and Florian Malzacher
settling into my new studio space at Trixie
2019.08
thinking about origins and transversive signifiers
reading Brian Massumi's The Power at the End of the Economy