Volatile moments for a different future is an artistic research project that investigates sustainability with a focus on water as a spiritual source of inspiration.
The format is a site-sensitive performance installation in public that invites the audience for their participation.

The project is embedded in my PhD project in performing arts and moving image. Work in progress showings have taken place at the PeaceWaveFestival Vienna and at ImPulsTanz  Atlas as well as at the Water Museum in Lisbon.

Vienna is a city that is highly privileged with its water resources whereas in other parts of the world, like in India for instance, water is scarce resource. In the Indian state Madhya Pradesh, the Jal Sahelis, the water warriors, walk miles through the desert for clean drinking water. These women have served as a source of inspiration for my interdisciplinary art project that works with live performance, analogue photography and video art.

Another point of interrogation is the sustainability goal of zero waste and responsible production and consumption, in the live performance I have been working with two plastic pools, plastic water bottles, water, natural materials such as stones, incense or coffee with which I create rituals that invite the audience for participation and that serve as a means to illustrate how far we have disconnected as humans from nature.

The project has received funding through the Otto Mauer Fonds.