How do bodies in transformation respond to disrupted water cycles?

Unseasonal Phenomenon
Floods, crumbling mountains, and melting glaciers frame this exploration of disrupted alpine landscapes. All terrain and matter are understood as bodies – human, non-human, and material alike. Within this view, the human body becomes a displaced waterbody, inseparable from the mountain’s unstable hydroscape.

Research Question
How do bodies in transformation – human, non-human, and material – perceive, negotiate, and respond to disrupted water cycles, and how does this relational movement reveal embodied knowledge of the hydroscape?

UnseasonAbility
The work approaches water as a body and the mountain as a hydroscape in motion. Subtle shifts in alpine water systems are made perceptible through the female body as both sensing instrument and medium. It unfolds as a dialogue between embodied rhythms and changing hydrological conditions, cultivating an awareness of disruption through spatial and corporeal experience.

Concept Note
Emerging from unseasonal hydrological conditions in the Sarentino Valley, the work investigates shifting water cycles through an embodied perspective. Distinctions between human, landscape, and matter dissolve; the mountain appears as a dynamic hydroscape shaped by intersecting water states and temporalities.
A marked line in the terrain becomes a guide for movement and perception. Analytical practices – walking, measuring, listening – lead into a performative phase: two female bodies move through the landscape connected by a transparent membrane. This shared, permeable body negotiates instability, forming a fluid entity that adapts to the terrain.
Rather than representing disruption, the work makes it physically felt – through slowed movement, resistance, and altered rhythms. It proposes a hydrofeminist vision of relation, where permeability, interdependence, and sensing replace control.

Installation as final work
The installation translates this embodied encounter into space. A suspended membrane traces the original line in the terrain, holding memory of movement and interaction. Sound, images, and text extend the experience, inviting viewers into an intimate, sensory engagement with a mountain hydroscape in transition.