with Sarah Hermanutz, Fara Peluso, India Mansour 

Together the artist Sarah Hermanutz, the designer Fara Peluso and the biologist India Mansour will continue their ongoing workshop collaborations along the Panke River, with an introduction to ecofeminism and hydrofeminism as both academic theories and as lived artistic and scientific practice. Guided by this framework, the workshop will take a special interest in the algal life of the Panke. This often invisible part of the ecosystem will be explored on the riverbanks with site-specific phenomenological, meditative sensory encounters and sample taking, followed by indoor ocular encounters using microscopy and DIY biology practices to observe living algal samples, grown in the laboratory from Panke river samples gathered in the previous year's workshop. Practices of cultivating and studying these life forms as a form of care and environmental engagement will also be discussed. Flowing together formats of reading groups, meditative sensory experience,  DIY and traditional methods of scientific inquiry, and discussions both affirmative and critical, this workshop invites fluid practices of connection and care between and beyond humans, 'staying with the trouble' in laboratory practice with algae that defy categorisations of 'living' or 'dead', and embracing the unease of incomplete, in-progress ways of watery knowing and being.

Duration: 5 Hours