Since time immemorial, rivers have served as mental representations for paradoxical concepts of time – such as the recurring and the never-same. What new insights on temporalities can develop in our relationship with rivers in today's times of climate crisis and impending catastrophes? How can rivers change our temporal orientation, senses and actions? The IfCAR-project River calls examines forms of interaction – material, mental and spiritual – between rivers and humans and other living beings that allow new perceptions and conceptions of relationships and bring forth a sense for the long view.
In a series of collaborative and singular research stays and seminars, Laura von Niederhäusern proposes a practice-based approach investigating aesthetic experiences of bodies of water. The project will include a format of dialogue and encounter for artists to share experiences on methods of interacting with rivers, to discuss questions of agency and time-related practices.
Project responsible: Laura von Niederhäusern
Keywords: more-than-human temporalities, decentering, interdependencies, speculative imagination, animism, deceleration, reduction, hydrofeminism, rewilding, pilgrimage, long view