Water is elementally visible, the wisdom contained in water is often invisible. Considering the spiritual position of water in the age of climate crisis and the region’s relationship with water, I decided to work on wisdom of water. In the residency program, I created a site-specific performance called “Heal with ancient friend water!” that offered to its participants both practical approaches and theoretical knowledge about the relationship between performance art, environmentalism and wisdom of the water.

How does our relationship with water affect our creative process and daily life? What can be our daily rhythm for living under the title of synchrozing with water? Accompanied by all these questions, “Heal with ancient friend water” invited to the participants to intertemporal journey that they will be experienced the consept of healing through water.

What happend in performance?

“Heal with ancient friend water!” could be thought of as a kind of ritual. The performance artist initiated the ritual, but the ritual growed with the involvement of the participants. The performance progressed towards our world being a water planet through relating to the waters in the body. For this purpose, goddess cults, various meditation techniques, movement research and intersensory activation methods were used.

*“Heal with ancient friend water!” is closely related to Goal 13 (Climate Action) of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It also overlaps with Goal 14 (Life Aquatic).

The performance called “Heal with ancient friend water!” was created at the end of the artist residency programme Art Junction, 8th Sowing Seeds in Udaipur/India, 2024.