Transgeographical Hydro Bodies
‘Transgeographical Hydro Bodies’ is a collaboration of four European partners: Forevergreen (IT), iii (NL), Tenthaus (NO), and Cashmere Radio (DE), promoting an innovative way of touring by stimulating critical reflection on the environment through a transdisciplinary artistic approach.
At the heart of the project is the participatory lecture performance ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’, touring physically and in hybrid form, in the four cities of the partnership: Genoa, The Hague, Oslo, Berlin, and on radio. The performance is based on the principles of the Charter of Rights of Hydro Bodies, drafted by the artistic research collective, Corpi Idrici, and will be preceded by a series of workshops led by multidisciplinary artists and performers. The crucial engagement of local communities through testimony gathering and awareness-raising activities will contribute to the creation of different versions of ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly’, including context-specific amendments to the Charter. The project includes a hybrid performance, presented live in Berlin and simultaneously broadcast via radio.
Voices and sounds collected during the workshops and performances will create a new narrative of the tour that will feed into the ‘Hydro Bodies Assembly Podcast’, expanding the performance in time and space.
Hydro Bodies Assemblies
April 17, 2025
Panorama Genova, Italy
May 9, 2025
iii, The Hague, Netherlands
May 23, 2025
Tenthaus, Oslo, Norway
October 1, 2025
Cashmere Radio, Berlin, Germany
About Corpi Idrici
Corpi Idrici is a transdisciplinary collective of artistic research initiated by Forevergreen in 2021. It was initiated from the desire to reason and collectively create a path of investigation and construction of imagery, starting from the particular relationship of the city of Genova with its waters in connection with grassroots associations and local activists.
Seeking to connect the city’s memories related to the element of water, punctuated by stories of floods, hydrogeological disruptions and land consumption, but also of futuristic experimentation and the development of unique skills, Corpi Idrici collective offers a sensitive map that brings to light the potential expressed by Genova’s hydro bodies, conjoined with community struggles for land defence, possible responses to environmental emergencies, rituals related to water, and the idea that it can represent a creative and vital continuous flow for the future.
The formulation of the Charter of the Rights of Hydro Bodies focuses on the diverse performative acts and workshops the collective organizes and intends to be the starting point for a change in people’s perspective and behaviour to stimulate a new awareness of the fundamental role of the present and future of rivers, streams, creeks, seas and rainwater, which can activate a collective path of their custody at the local level and a rapid change in city, regional and national legislation, considering them as subjects of rights.