This workshop invites diasporic beings to connect with water as a source of memory and togetherness. Inspired by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s latest book, Theory of Water, the workshop invites participants to consider how paying attention to water’s relational, cyclical, transformative and bonding capacities can teach us ways to ethically engage with/in new environments. Led by artist and ethnographer Florencia Marchetti (QC/Argentina), the workshop links lived experiences with eco-somatic theory and praxis, through breathing and visualization exercises, attentive listening, and multilingual individual and collective writing prompts.

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This event is part of the program Everything Still Resonates

Co-created by SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art with Colectiva Polea, the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Intellectual Traditions and Self-Determination, and the Laboratory for Decolonial Art and Research (LabARD), this program brings together Indigenous, diasporic, and settler voices proposing alternatives to socio-ecological crises and sharing tools for healing, transformation, and resistance. From November 27 to December 12, workshops, gatherings, and performances invite participants to imagine new ways of making together.

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COLLABORATORS

Florencia Marchetti (she/they) is an Argentinian-born, Montreal-based thinker-maker. As a multimodal ethnographer and participatory researcher, she thrives when collaborating with others, humans and beyond. She’s raising a human child and a multiplicity of plants who keep her hopeful when things get hard. Endlessly curious about the power of culture to imagine and create new pathways for living together, they have done research on the different forms cultural memory can take and the affective power of past experiences in present day lives. She continues to write, sporadically, take photos, always, and perform acts of social service as a creative consultant, a network activator, and a dialogic facilitator.  

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@florecita_nomada

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