We Are the Bodies of Water

Participation is free, registration is required.
 

To take part, please bring your own headphones and phone with internet connection.

Please carry warm and waterproof clothing as this event takes place outdoors. In case of bad weather, we will stay indoors at ZKM | Karlsruhe.

Languages in the recording are English, French, and Bengali.

The event will take place in English, German speakers are present in case translation is needed.
 

Join us for Ishita Chakraborty’s Sound Walk We Are the Bodies of Water: After a short introduction by the artist, we will walk along the river Alb while listening to her recording of multiple water bodies from India and Switzerland. We will finish with an informal discussion afterwards.  

We Are the Bodies of Water is a sound exploration by the Indian-Swiss artist who also currently features in the ZKM exhibition Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence. The Sound Walk results from her travelogue of the Indian Sundarbans, the largest delta and mangrove ecosystem in the world and combines field recordings, readings, organic sounds, and poetry. The artist grew up near urban cities like Kolkata, in the foothills of the Himalayas, and is a resident of Switzerland. In her ongoing research, she is connecting the dots between melting glaciers not only in the Alps but also their effects on rising sea levels and tidal erosion, which is swallowing up the Sundarbans, an ecosystem under tremendous stress from sea-level rise.

Ishita Chakraborty brings the Sundarbans tidal and deltaic discourses to this collective listening session. Over time, wealthy countries in the Global North have been responsible for the majority of emissions driving climate change. She tries to create a bridge and a chorus between the global South and global North for our future understanding of cohabitation.