Co-create Four Waters | Djeve Collective
We are co-creating the space of Four Waters by collecting the impressions and needs of everyone that spends time here. We believe co-creating is the best way to transform these spaces and create a place for us all.
MAKE/SENSE
MAKE/SENSE is a multi-sensory experiential game that encourages awareness and engages memory. The game begins with players selecting 1-4 wooden tokens at random from the game bag. Each token has a descriptive word on one side, like sweet, and a sense on the other side, like smell. Using the tokens are sensory prompts, the players create an environment that includes all the selected tokens. All players are asked to concentrate on the experience and record the sensations and associated memories that arise during the game.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue is a workshop organized by Miloš Bojović and Joshua Nierodzinski that uses the photographic process of cyanotype to connect residents with the land and structures on the Four Waters property. First, participants are given a brief introduction to the history and preparation of cyanotype. Then they are asked to explore the property to find objects to make contact prints and return to the bakery, which was adapted to create a darkroom. The participants work under a red safety light to arrange their found objects on a sheet of photosensitized paper. The composition is covered with glass and exposed to sunlight for 30-120 seconds. The objects are then removed and developed in water. The resulting images are records of the participants’ physical exploration and aesthetic choices made permanent by the sun and water.
Sound Journey in Nature
The workshop starts with breathing & humming exercises and use of a tuning fork which calms the nervous system and grounds the body. Boshko then uses the healing power of voice vibration and sounding along with the Shruti box instrument. By exploring the deep sonic connection with our bodies we leave behind the active mind and embrace the Alpha & Theta brain waves which are ideal for meditation and experiencing oneself as an energetic body.
Reco(r)dings & Transcriptions
On July 10, 2023, after attuning to Beatriz Ferreyra’s creaking doors, we (re)versed the practice of transcribing sounds by composing experimental score-like titles for field recordings, out/stretching words, images, phrases from texts written by Susan Howe, Margiad Evans, and Dimitra Ioannou. We activated our titles in the field, experimenting with the way Lisa Robertson responded to Eugene Atge’s photographs in Disquiet, assembling a sound document of different qualities, auralities, and rhythms. With the aim to create an open archive for future field reco(r)dings and transcriptions, both the sound document and the score-like titles will be made available online.
Natural Dye
The workshop consists of two portions.
Description for the first portion (Title: Floral Pounding)
Step 1: participants cut white cotton fabric into rectangle samples that they will use for their floral prints.
Step 2: participants look for elements (flowers, petals and leaves) on the Four Waters compound as a base for floral prints.
Step 3: participants use hammers to pound their elements of choice onto their fabric samples. They have another piece of cotton cloth on top. The flowers get sandwiched in between the cloth and the fabric sample. That way, the hammer doesn’t touch them while they get pounded onto the fabric sample.
Goal: creating unique textile patterns with natural elements.
*Nikolija Prljević, one of the Four Waters organizers, introduced me to this Japanesse technique of floral pounding called Tataki-zomé.
Description for the second portion (Title: Natural Dyeing)
Several participants dip some of their cotton samples into two pots with water. One pot has lemon balm, mint and marigold. The other one has red cabbage. After boiling and cooking with salt and white vinegar, the samples get hung to dry to see the results.
Goal: the workshop explores dyeing white cotton fabric with dyes from nature.
