Vessels for Water

Vessels for Water is a participatory river encounter at the Panke river Berlin. Picking up on ancient practices of collecting water, handmade objects served as containers for gathering water and stories. These vessels were used to collect water from the river, carefully carry it back to the festival venue, and ritually pour it into a communal glass vessel, where it joined with water collected from other sources.

At various stations along the river we engaged with artistic and performative methods to build intimacies with the river Panke. Through these encounters the group reflected on mutual relationships of care and containment, interdependence, and the watery embodiments of mothering both human and non-human lives.