Mourning Waters was a workshop in which participants develop an attuned relation to water bodies and landscapes under threat.

Engaging with the manifold complexities of environmental relations, the Mourning Waters workshop with Margarida Mendes proposed a space to converse about changing ecosystems, while exploring how these may be celebrated and mourned collectively. Participants developed an attuned relation to water bodies and landscapes under threat, connecting personal experiences of grief with communal processes of mourning, and societal transformation. The weaving of testimonies was carried through meditation techniques, sensoriograms and a listening circle, crossing individual journeys of solastalgia (emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change) with the demand for environmental justice.

Margarida Mendes (PT) is a researcher, curator, writer and educator. Her research explores the overlap between infrastructure, ecology, experimental film, and sound practices, investigating environmental transformations and their impact on societal structures and cultural production.

More info: https://2024.sonicacts.com/programme/workshops/mourning-waters.html

Part of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action. Co-funded by the European Union.

For enquiries, contact: re-imagine-europe@paradiso.nl or info@sonicacts.com

Photo: Margarida Mendes at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 by Pieter Kers.