Water

Water is one of the substances that every planetary organism has in common. Its global circulation covers the entire surface of the Earth, transporting energy and substance between bodies. The term ‘Hypersea’* describes how all bodies of water are connected to each other and in constant transition between various forms: the liquid cells, the river, the glass of water. Blurring the distinction between the self and the others, it amplifies the hyperconnectivity of all living entities.

We interrogate the hierarchization of reproductive fluids classified by the economic net worth of species, based on the efficiency or scarcity of their bodies. How does the monogamous cis-infrastructure of humans, “function to promote or prevent the encounter of different bodies, to enforce or prohibit sexual reproduction, and to facilitate or preclude the circulation of certain reproductive fluids (blood, sperm, milk)”? Who owns reproductive fluids once they leave the body? Could they have their own economic agency? Could they circulate without exploiting any species? And how does the economy rely on non-capitalist forms of value such as intimacy?

💧Fertile Water
💧Financial Water Metaphors
💧SPA

* McMenamin, Mark A., and Dianna L. Schulte McMenamin. "Hypersea: Life on land." (1994) Parrhesia