Anna Tuedos, Renata Berta

The workshop focuses on the confluence of Bolzano’s two rivers. As humans, we have sought to tame the rivers and mitigate what we perceive as destructive forces, such as floods. Yet, in doing so, we have forgetten about the natural cycles that govern these changes. The workshop engages participants in embodied practices and the creation of assemblages to explore ways to connect with non-human actors that contribute to this shared habitat and biological cycle. In the first half of the workshop, participants engage in sensing, recognising, and collecting—exploring the diverse actors within the Talvera and Isarco rivers’ confluences. After, participants design and build interactive devices, performances, or assemblages that engage with the non-human actors.

About

Renata Berta is an Argentinian artist, architect, and researcher. She holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work explores the entanglements between bodies, materials, and dynamic landscapes, engaging with site-specific and embodied methodologies. She is particularly interested in transcalar processes, more-than-human interactions, and the agency of materials in shaping environments.

Anna Tudos is a Hungarian curator and social researcher. Her work activates contemporary artistic positions concerned with physical and mental health, such as the social entanglements of urban playgrounds, macro-narratives’ influence on identity formation, and the extent of human agency in the agribusiness food industry. Anna’s projects develop following a participatory and place-based approach, considering human and non-human actors’ needs.