photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Finland 2023

Where Whales Swim With Their Mouth Open,

I sing about the water surface

(Draft)

Ales Cermak, Jindriska Cermak Krivankova

Through our artistic research practice, based on situated and embodied questioning and listening, in the text, Where Whales Swim With Their Mouth Open, I sing about the water surface, we devote ourselves to Writing on the water surface or also to Related Water Education (working title), which forms a subcategory of the artistic research project Pedagogy for Expanded-Interspecies Listening. We observe the varying, murky, surging, unpredictable specificities of the marine-aquatic environment, with an emphasis on expanding educational opportunities in outdoor pedagogy and seascape epistemology. This activity is situated in a specific location of the Saarenaukko Marine Nature Reserve and on the nearby island of Aukkokarri located in the southwestern part of Finland.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Finland 2023

RESEARCH OF THE COMMON WORLD

We try to disconnect and move away from anthropocentric pedagogy and experiment with connecting and representing marine-aquatic environments. We see water movements and activity as a methodology that involves a multi-sensory attention development to direct attention to (diffracted) patterns, ripples and a queer aquatic performativity, focused on changes taking place in near and distant marine-aquatic environments.