Chantal Küng – Week 1 – watery beings

July 15, 2018

“Few things are more planetary and more intimate than our bodies of water.” -Astrida Neimanis; Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water

This week; arrival, looking down at lakes and up into figue trees, meeting up, playing with water and searching for the colours of Sasso;

“Brennessel,
Schafgarbe,
Hibiskus,
Sonnenhut,
Feigenblätter”

The plant colour poem of today. I am trying to make a dress with the colours of Sasso. This is also a preparation for the Urban Color Research Group, an upcoming project where we will be dyeing with urban herbs and plants. I gave plant dye baths to “Hydrofeminism”, a text by Astrida Neimanis, which I will present next week in Genova at the Feminist Fiction Research School I am organising with my friend Romy Rüegger. We will be diving, ebbing, dripping, thinking about oceanic beginnings.

I have not forgotten Doris (Stauffer) for sure; a picture of her on the beach with only her head sticking out of the sand was accompanying me; I gave it some herbal treatments, too. Next Saturday would be her birthday and I will be watering some ships for her into the mare mediterraneo.