Water as Technology
April 25–May 5, 2022
Free
SHARED BODY (fka Portal.Web) from Resident Artist Cy X is a site of activation where we harness the wisdom of technologies from the emerging ones to the earth-based and ancestral ones through engagement with our radical imagination, embodied knowledge, and deep inner-knowing.
Shared Body’s “Water Residency” is an invitation and open residency for collective engagement with water as technology. From April 25–May 5, there will be a series of synchronous and asynchronous and in-person and online activations (readings, journal prompts, rituals, performances, conversations, medicine making, dreaming, etc) free & open to all.
This is an experiment, a reaching toward, an imperfect action, and yet a manifestation and a spell. There will be magic in the information. As Shared Body’s first residency it will shift, grow, change like water. What can emerge in this fluid space?
Water as Technology Open Schedule:
Mon 4/25 6:30pm | Writing Grief w YOU (In Person: Soft Surplus)
Tues 4/26 | Inner Liquid w Veils Veils Veils (Virtual: Asynchronous)
Wed 4/27 6:30pm | Working with Water and Plants w Cy (Virtual: Zoom)
Thur 4/28 6:30pm | Stories, Programming, and the Eco-Celestial Water Body w Simone Johnson (Virtual: Zoom)
Fri 4/29 5pm | The Fluid that Connects Us: An Erotic Journaling Workshop with Priya Florence (Virtual: Zoom)
Sat 4/30 1–3pm | Pouring in an Exploration of Water and the Body w Polina Ionina (In Person: Otion Front)
Sun 5/1 11am–1pm | The Tide Always Rises: Venerating the Re-emerging Waters of Brooklyn w. Kale Mays (In Person: Prospect Park Lake) BIPOC ONLY
Mon 5/2 | A Soaking Guide for Hot Water Immersion w Melodie Stancato (Virtual: Asynchronous)
Tues–Wed 5/3–5/4 | Open period for integration, rest, emergent ideas, and events planned by residents :-)
RSVP & Learn more about each event here.
What To Expect:
✧ SHARED RESOURCES: All research and resources will be shared with edit access so anyone can view and contribute.
✧OPEN CALENDAR: A few artists have been invited to contribute events and works alongside this theme but anyone is invited to host their own water activations during this time frame and beyond.
✧FLUID PARTICIPATION: Show up in whatever way feels authentic to you.
✧SPACE FOR REST: care work sessions, care prompts, & earth medicine :-) space for rest.
✧COLLABORATIVE ZINE: In the end, we can share out a collaborative zine documenting work, thoughts, resources, sources of inspiration. Nothing needs to be complete or even edited.