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living and swimming together
SPONGE GARDEN

​We are porous
Givers and takers
Suck in and pass on
I am the sponge
​And so are you


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WE SWIM IN ONE WATER I
performance, 45 min
Bildmuseet, ​Umeå, Sweden, 2018

During the performance a sample of Global Ocean is being created, bringing together waters, stories, cultures, beliefs, places, and people. Water from 7 different places of the globe, sent by 7 people is mixed together, the stories of these waters are being told, the water rituals from different belief systems are being enacted. In the final stage the mix of waters - a sample of the global ocean-  is being merged with the local river.
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I am an australian poet, I am an arctic doctor
a russian grandmother, I am a dutch artist
I am a mountain walker, 
a volonteer, and a french nomad

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"We are bodies of water
born from the sea
In our mother's milk 
we touch the algae and the shellfish
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Whoever you are
Wherever you are
We swim in one water"
We Swim in One Water
performance, 45 min
Bildmuseet, ​Umeå, Sweden, 2018
photo: Miklael Lundgren, Maxim Vlasov


WE SWIM IN ONE WATER II
performance, 45 min
GIBCA extended
Stationen Svenshöhen, 2019


This  performance piece evolves in series of transformations: different bodies co-emerge in and with the landscape through time and space, form the first melting of the glacier milk, egg and giving birth,  becoming an amphibian body, a bird body, a reindeer’s body, a green kale’s body, an ancestral body, a newcomer’s body, a spongeous body, and all of these bodies at the same time.  to returning the water back to the mountain top to begin a new circle. The audience is invited to join a happening by the local body of water.

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​AQUA AEROBICS
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FISH OPERA
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