As the ice melts along the St. Lawrence, fractured sheets drift like movable islands, carrying winter into spring. Freshwater meets saltwater, and the river opens to the sea. Water remembers its passageways through our bodies and into distant shorelines, bearing histories of extraction and dispossession as it flows through communities and ecosystems, sustaining all life.
TO SPILL/FAIRE EAU brings together three artists under a hydrofeminist framework to explore the politics and poetics of water as a relational medium. Through acts of place-listening, they trace its movements across corporeal and hydrological cycles, attending to its leakages beyond sovereign borders and disobedience to capitalist systems.
Spilling beyond its own containment, water gestures toward the interdependence of global ecologies and our shared responsibilities to more-than-human worlds. How might thinking through water as an all-connecting body trouble extractive narratives, invite embodied forms of attention, and carry the potential for more ethical, entangled ways of being?
Ally Rosilio would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
