Spreepark Art Space, Foto/ Frank Sperling How can we learn together with water?
What does a symbiotic way of life with water feel like?
New lifeforms unfolded in the ruins of the Plänterwald amusement park. Moisture-loving, tiny flowering plants shape the emerging landscape just as much as algae, mud, or black alders. Rootless duckweed, water droplets, fish, tears, and man-made infrastructures are interconnected, closely interwoven and interdependent.
Watercourses are never neutral: They are regulated, diverted, and controlled. Downstream from Spreepark, toward Museum Island, the Mühlendamm Lock permanently blocks the path of fish. Water is not only connecting, but also threatened by pollution, extraction, and unequal access. With the construction of the fish ladder, an ecological connection is now being reestablished.
The Becoming Porous program was jointly developed by Tuçe Erel, Sina Ribak and Dr. Nina Samuel (Knowledge Exchange Office of the Berlin University Alliance) who leads the On Water PARCOURS events series, in collaboration with the Spreepark Art Space team.
Water permeates cells, soils, infrastructures, and ecosystems, connecting the inside and the outside, the human and the more-than-human. In this full-day program, water becomes an immediate, shared experience that connects artists, scientists, and the public.
art & science participatory event
Saturday 6th of June
13:00 – 18:00
Spreepark Art Space Berlin
Indoor & Outdoor
Free entrance. Register here.