Waters and more

Waters and more: Artistic and Epistemic Practices is a cross-disciplinary symposium exploring water as a political, poetic and ecological agent in arts and sciences.

With Filipa Ramos, Emilija Škarnulytė, Tatjana Petzer, Kristina Pranjić, Florian Bieber, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos.

Schedule:

Welcome

14.00–14.15

Andreja Hribernik (Kunsthaus Graz) & Tatjana Petzer (University of Graz)

I – Water · Knowledge · Politics

14.15–14.45 Hydrojustice: A Performance Lecture

Keynote by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster) with interventions by Nathan Julius, countertenor*

*The performance lecture is preceded by a short visual intervention by Elena Cirkovic (Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland), titled "Uncertain Trajectories".

14.45–15.00 Blue Humanities, Florian Bieber (Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies / Dimensions of Europe) and Tatjana Petzer (DoE Cluster “Knowledge Transfer and Concepts of Europe”) 

15.00-15:30 Q&A with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Florian Bieber, and Tatjana Petzer

II – Water · Bodies · Poetics

16.00–17.15 Unseen Futures to Come. Fall & Emilija Škarnulytė. Waters Call me Home, exhibition tourwith Andreja Hribernik, Katia Huemer, Alexandra Trost, and Emilija Škarnulytė

17.30–17.45 Adriatic Avant-Garde

Project presentation by Kristina Pranjić (ZRC SAZU)

17.45–18.00 Keynote by Filipa Ramos 

18.00–18.15 Q&A with Filipa Ramos, Emilija Škarnulytė, and Kristina Pranjić

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This symposium marks the launch of the research project Eco-Transversal Re-Mapping of Northern Adriatic Avant-Gardes, financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS). The project reframes cultural and artistic narratives in response to the ecological crisis, focusing on underrepresented avant-garde practices from the Northern Adriatic. Integrating approaches from the environmental humanities, digital cartography, and archival research, it traces the entangled histories of art, ecology, and society across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.