Sharing water/s
Welcome to the Water and Care Network's third event, where we invite you to become immersed in the soundscape WE ARE WATER by Bergen-based artist Daiyen Jone and participate in a workshop with Cabo Verdean architect Patricia Anahory on water and memory, belonging, resistance and care.
Program:
18.30-19.30: Immersive soundscape by Daiyen Jone (CU/NO)
19.30-20.30: Workshop with Patricia Anahory (CV)
Sharing water/s: collective reflections on memory, belonging, resistance and care
Anahory will share reflections on her architectural practice, engaging with multiple dimensions of water to explore the entanglement of colonial continuities embedded in spatial narratives.
The workshop invites participants to think with water as a relational field, moving from an understanding of water as resource or commodity towards water as an emotional, ancestral, cultural, (infra)structural and critical lens – as archive, portal, and kin.
Participants are invited to bring objects, writings, drawings, photographs, stories as prompts for collectively mapping relationships, memories, and entangled histories across oceans and geographies.
Through conversation and exchange, the group will collectively reflect on their relationships with water to consider how to cultivate critical planetary understandings that are non-extractivist, anti-racist, decolonial, and reparatory.
WE ARE WATER.
A sonic landscape shaped by field recordings and improvisation.
The river. The sea. The rain.
A drop. A distant current.
Water moving through the walls of a home.
Frequencies and textures emerge, dissolve, and return
Familiar, yet somehow unknown.
An invitation to pause.
To surrender to the rhythm of the element.
To listen beyond what can be heard.
A current between what we know
and what we remember.
Bios
Patricia Anahory (external link) is a Cabo Verdean architect working at the intersection of architecture, art, research, and pedagogy. Her practice engages African and Afro-diasporic spatial practices as forms of decolonial knowledge production, to consider the entanglements of power, place, belonging, memory, and identity. Anahory was a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and the Founding Director of CIDLOT, a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Cabo Verde. She co-founded Storia na Lugar, a storytelling platform and counter-narrative practice, and her(e), otherwise, an experimental platform for African and diasporic women creatives and spatial thinkers.
She holds a Master’s in Architecture from Princeton University and a BArch from the Boston Architectural College. She is committed to creating independent, multidisciplinary, and collaborative spaces and processes, grounded in an ethic of care, to support creative ideation and experimentation into spatial practices that disrupt dominant narratives and can help shift the currents of destruction.
Anahory was born at sea, aboard a ship traveling south across the Atlantic Ocean to São Tomé and Príncipe. She imagines her birth at dawn, blessed by the rising sun over the African continent, where the armed struggle for independence from Portuguese colonial rule was still underway. Her parents named her Patricia after the great Pan-African and anti-colonial leader Patrice Lumumba.
Daiyen Jone (external link) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, ceramics, and performance. Her practice explores symbolic and sensorial languages rooted in her Afro-Cuban heritage, Caribbean mythologies, and oneiric sources.
Through sound sculptures, improvisation, field recordings, electronics, and the body as an instrument, she creates immersive environments that invite listening, contemplation, and connection. Her work proposes a decolonial approach to creation, one that moves beyond Eurocentric conventions toward the intuitive, ritual, archaic, and essential.
Currently, she is expanding her ceramic practice through material and experimental research, exploring clay as a space for play, intuition, form, texture, color, and sound.
The event is funded by the Nordic Gender Fund (external link)