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I am well excited to share this invitation for the presentation of "Floating Studio, when the River sounds like the Amazon River" this Thursday 14th of November 2024 at the Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin. It is the first time this project is presented in Germany, second time in Europe! "Floating Studio, when the River sounds like the Amazon River" (2019–2022) is an artistic project led by Seila Fernández Arconada, inspired by the relationship between human beings and water, in the most important freshwater reserve on the planet: the Amazon River. This project followed a ‘collective artistic expedition’ as artistic method framed within the itinerary of the river’s course, from its origin in Nevado Mismi (Peru) until it reached the ocean at Belém do Pará (Brazil), however in the end it reached the Guadalquivir River (Spain). This project have a collaborative nature and therefore branching to each piece will travel to many people who collaborated in various forms in Peru, Brasil, Colombia and Spain. During this event I will tackle some glimpses from this vast artistic research project as well as share two sound pieces created, to have a dialogue with the current situation of the Amazon River as well as the collective knowledge of the audience. The sound pieces are the following: "Drop by Drop Water is Drained" is a sound creation situated in the course of the journey in the Peruvian Amazon. This composition includes documentation and sound exploration based on different collective experiences, including workshops with youth, ‘concerts to be more river-like ’ and other experiences along the way. The artist has used hydrophones and other recording strategies to collect sounds. This work presents a sound experience to ‘be more river-like’, portraying the movement through the corporal based on the experience in the Amazon River. "Amazon, Between Reality and Fiction" is a reflection situated in the context of return and the final presentation (Spain). Due to the interruption of the route by the pandemic in 2020, the project was redirected while seeking to close a narrative cycle that would be meaningful for the investigation and its ethical principles. Therefore, this sound creation uses a Western musical genre: opera as an approach for reflection. This ‘fictionalised reality’ give voice to some other silenced histories bringing important questions to Europe from a reality in real emergency... All welcome to join! Session will held in English with some Spanish language. More info here: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropius-bau/programm/2024/ausstellungen/rirkrit-tiravanija/demo-station/demo-station-floating-studio #artisticresearch #estudioflotante #floatingstudio #rioAmazonas #AmazonRiver #GuadalquivirRiver #rioGuadalquivir #colonialtraces #wateryterritories #soundart #GropiusBau #Germany 
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