{"id":164377,"date":"2026-05-19T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=164377"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:11:41","slug":"liquid-borders-shifting-grounds-where-water-remembers","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/liquid-borders-shifting-grounds-where-water-remembers-164377\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Borders, Shifting Grounds \u2013 Where Water Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This artist talk explores how water, infrastructure, and landscape function as carriers of memory, loss, and political violence. Taking water as both a methodological and perceptual framework, Valerie Karpan\u2019s artistic practice engages with infrastructural modulation, transmission, and relationality as ways of sensing and narrating space. Through moving image, sound, and embodied modes of perception, the talk considers how environmental transformations \u2013 such as flooding, dam construction, and forced displacement \u2013 are inscribed in bodies, narratives, and everyday experience.<\/p>\n

The programme includes a screening of So Close You Can Almost Touch It<\/em> (2025) by the artistic duo Variable Name\/\u041d\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430 \u0437\u043c\u0456\u043d\u043d\u0430<\/em>, which reflects on loss and adaptation in environments shaped by hydrological intervention and war-related destruction, proposing speculative forms of collective memory and imagination. In dialogue with this work, Hydraulic Border Intervals<\/em> (2026), an ongoing sound-based research project, approaches borders as modulated zones shaped by rivers, radio waves, and administrative regimes. Kinography<\/em> (2021), a collective digital mapping project, traces modernist cinemas built within the Soviet film distribution system and their local adaptations in Ukraine. As part of a broader trajectory of counter-mapping practices, it foregrounds embodied interaction, material engagement, and collective processes.<\/p>\n

The discussion opens up questions of how landscapes shape subjectivity, and how artistic practices can reconfigure modes of sensing, contact, and remembrance within fragile environments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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