BIENNALE OF SYDNEY - WATER LESSONS

Water Lessons embraces the reality that we all hold water expertise through our social, cultural, political and historical relations with it. Diverse water specialists from various fields of interest, knowledge and research will be invited to host the monthly lessons and to facilitate unique encounters with audiences upon acknowledging this positionality. Each Lesson will culminate in an informal eating experience catered by the social enterprise and asylum seeker and refugee kitchen Parliament on King. Food will be celebrated as a shared experience, which brings people together encouraging storytelling and togetherness.

Water Lesson: Six | Liane Rossler + Collaborators Amanda Cole and Sam Marshall
Sunday, 20 February 2022

Water as a transformational agent.
Water as elemental of life.
Water as poetics.
Water as music.
Water as beauty.
Water as power.
Water as alchemy.

Water Lesson: Six | Liane Rossler + Collaborators Amanda Cole and Sam Marshall, interrogates the power of water as a multifaceted and multiform being. It includes relationships with music by acknowledging that waters can inform and shape the tunings of life, energy and matter through sound.

All materials present in the creation of the Water Lessons sounds are born from a relationship with water, manifesting in food, plants, natural dyes and glass. From the realm of sounds, the experience travels outwards and is built upon through collectively drawn imaginings. Water Lessons participants are invited to work with watery materials and to reflect upon the transformational quality of water – the magic; to contemplate the forms and power of water as liquid, solid and gas, light and dark, and to notate the music that is resonating in the body, in the space and in the ether.

Water Lesson Six will culminate in an informal eating experience catered by the social enterprise and asylum seeker and refugee kitchen Parliament on King. Participants will be invited to safely ‘build’ their own meal with raw ingredients. The communal meal offers a chance to reflect on our connections with food and the nostalgia associated with the experience of eating.

BIO

Liane Rossler is an artist, designer and curator who has worked in creative industries for over thirty years, and has spent the last fifteen years focused on projects that intersect art, design and the environment. Alongside her solo creative practice which is focused on beneficial and beautiful sustainable design, she is founder of Superlocalstudio which inspires collaborative, socially engaged cultural and creative projects for diverse audiences.