“À quel moment le passé est-il remplacé par le présent ? Qu’est-ce qui marque la bascule définitive d’une espèce à une « autre » ? Quand le corps hôte finit-il, et quand le corps amniotique commence-t-il ? Nos corps sont des seuils entre passé et avenir. L’espace-temps matériel précis de la différenciation entre deux corps n’est qu’une question de circonstance, et pourtant sans membranes, les corps se déverseraient immédiatement dans la mer. Le risque de l’immersion n’est jamais loin. “

Florence lit “Hydroféminisme - Devenir un corps d'eau” d’Astrida Neimanis

Astrida Neimanis est une chercheuse australienne en théorie culturelle spécialisée dans les questions de féminisme et de changement environnemental. Ses recherches portent sur les corps, l'eau et le temps, et sur la manière dont ils peuvent nous aider à réimaginer la justice, le soin, la responsabilité et la relation en ces temps de catastrophe climatique. Son dernier ouvrage, Bodies of Water : Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology est un appel aux êtres humains pour qu'ils examinent leurs relations avec les océans, les bassins versants et les autres formes de vie aquatique du point de vue de leurs propres corps, essentiellement aquatiques, et de leurs liens écologiques, poétiques et politiques avec d'autres masses d'eau.

Hydroféminisme : Or, On Becoming a Body of Water (Hydroféminisme - Devenir un corps d'eau) figure dans "Undutiful Daughters : Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice", eds. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni et Fanny Söderbäck. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Traduit de l'anglais (Australie) par Emma Bigé et Ambre Petitcolas.

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“And are we not all bodies of water? In Marine Lover, while Irigaray’s descriptions highlight woman’s aqueous embodiment, she posits no clear separation of the man’s body from the amniotic waters he too readily forgets. Irigaray’s male interlocutor in this text is birthed in and by a watery body - yet this water is also an integral part of his own flesh: “Where have you drawn what flows out of you?” And, while what her lover thinks he fears is drowning in the mother/sea, Irigaray subtly reminds him that what he should really fear is desiccation, drought, thirst. No body can come into being, thrive, or survive without water to buoy its flesh.”

Wilder reads "Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water" by Astrida Neimanis

Astrida Neimanis is an Australian cultural theorist working at the intersection of feminism and environmental change. Her research focuses on bodies, water, and weather, and how they can help us reimagine justice, care, responsibility and relation in the time of climate catastrophe. Her most recent book, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology is a call for humans to examine our relationships to oceans, watersheds, and other aquatic life forms from the perspective of our own primarily watery bodies, and our ecological, poetic, and political connections to other bodies of water. 

Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water appears in “Undutiful Daughters: Mobilizing Future Concepts, Bodies and Subjectivities in Feminist Thought and Practice”, eds. Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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This is the fourth item of a selection of texts sent to us by Wilder Alison. Wilder Alison (b.1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work includes painting and works on paper.

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“And I’m ashamed of that, too. There’s not one single thing about them that I’m not ashamed of - as soon as I step outside their own, proprietary space. There, I love them. I’m ashamed of their not being explainable to Shannon. I’m afraid he won’t be interested in them at all; leaving me out in the cold alone. I’m also afraid he’ll ask me - unlubricated - more about them: there’s not a corner of the room far enough to gaze at.”

Wilder reading an excerpt from "A Dialogue on Love" by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was an American scholar who helped initiate the field of queer studies through her writing, which insisted on critically analyzing a modern homo/heterosexual definition in Western culture. This is an excerpt from a Sedgwick's memoir that recounts her psychotherapy at the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

It is a powerful account of therapeutic love that nurtures self-discovery on the precipice of death.

This is the third item of a selection of texts sent to us by Wilder Alison. Wilder Alison (b.1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work includes painting and works on paper.

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