Sharing Water
About the project
The interdisciplinary project SHARING WATER explores the meaning of sharing a resource we all depend on as individuals and communities.
The Continental watershed separating the basins of the major European rivers and cultural areas from each other is taken as a symbol and geographical grounds for the implementation of the project.
The project embraces a journalistic investigation at four European source regions, a traveling group exhibition and interdisciplinary events fostering cross-border communication.
Investigation and Publication
The journalistic investigation of Swiss journalist Mathias Plüss and Regina Hügli at four waterhead regions along the European Watershed focuses on political, ecological and cultural topics connected to water and water treatment. The investigation was implemented from 2019-2021 and was published in German autumn 2022 at Echtzeit Verlag, Switzerland.
Das Wasserbuch -
Überschwemmungen, Dürre, Gletscherschwund.
Vier Expeditionen im Herzen Europas.
Mathias Plüss, Regina Hügli, 2022.
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On the Watershed.
Six Stories about Water and its People - research by Mathias Plüss and Regina Hügli, 2019-2021.
Exhibitions
Curated by Regina Hügli, a group exhibition dealing with the Continental watershed and water bodies is shown at four European source regions between 2021-2023 (Town Museum Králíky, CZ, Talmuseum Ursern, Andermatt, CH, Sala Segantini, Savognin, CH, and Langres FR). The exhibition aims to raise awareness for the importance of the source regions for the Continental water household and fosters the flow of information between them.
Moreover, the project presents itself also as a pop-up-Exhibition at special occasions and places, e.g. The House of Switzerland in Multilateral Vienna (2021) or the Romanshorner Luftspiele (2022).
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Sharing Water - House of Switzerland
A documentary video about the pop-up exhibition SHARING WATER at the House of Switzerland in Multilateral Vienna in July 2021.
Ritual of Earth (2022)
The artistic flow of the project is accompanied by Austrian artist Barbara Anna Husar as artistic navigator, interweaving her personal work and her network.
As a personal, artistic contribution, she created the visionary RITUAL FOR EARTH, which took place March 16th 2022.
By her hot air balloon Flying Udder, Husar transported 1001 wishes of children for the future of Earth to the triple watershed at Pass Lunghin and entrusted them to the wind and the three directions of water flow.
Interdisciplinary Events
The Sharing Water project fosters cross-border flow of communication in behalf of water between groups of different approaches and interests. e.g. scientists and artists, environmental organizations, economy and communities.
In 2022/23 One Body of Water Association organizes a series of SHARING WATER events in Vienna in cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, the Volkskundemuseum and the University of Applied Arts. The interdisciplinary dialog formats deal with the question what an equitable and sustainable sharing of the resource water entails.
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Sharing Water
About the project
The interdisciplinary project SHARING WATER explores the meaning of sharing a resource we all depend on as individuals and communities.
The Continental watershed separating the basins of the major European rivers and cultural areas from each other is taken as a symbol and geographical grounds for the implementation of the project.
The project embraces a journalistic investigation at four European source regions, a traveling group exhibition and interdisciplinary events fostering cross-border communication.
Investigation and Publication
The journalistic investigation of Swiss journalist Mathias Plüss and Regina Hügli at four waterhead regions along the European Watershed focuses on political, ecological and cultural topics connected to water and water treatment. The investigation was implemented from 2019-2021 and was published in German autumn 2022 at Echtzeit Verlag, Switzerland.
On the Watershed.
Six Stories about Water and its People - research by Mathias Plüss and Regina Hügli, 2019-2021.
Exhibitions
Curated by Regina Hügli, a group exhibition dealing with the Continental watershed and water bodies is shown at four European source regions between 2021-2023 (Town Museum Králíky, CZ, Talmuseum Ursern, Andermatt, CH, Sala Segantini, Savognin, CH, and Langres FR). The exhibition aims to raise awareness for the importance of the source regions for the Continental water household and fosters the flow of information between them.
Moreover, the project presents itself also as a pop-up-Exhibition at special occasions and places, e.g. The House of Switzerland in Multilateral Vienna (2021) or the Romanshorner Luftspiele (2022).
Find more details.
Sharing Water - House of Switzerland
A documentary video about the pop-up exhibition SHARING WATER at the House of Switzerland in Multilateral Vienna in July 2021.
Ritual of Earth (2022)
The artistic flow of the project is accompanied by Austrian artist Barbara Anna Husar as artistic navigator, interweaving her personal work and her network.
As a personal, artistic contribution, she created the visionary RITUAL FOR EARTH, which took place March 16th 2022.
By her hot air balloon Flying Udder, Husar transported 1001 wishes of children for the future of Earth to the triple watershed at Pass Lunghin and entrusted them to the wind and the three directions of water flow.
Interdisciplinary Events
The Sharing Water project fosters cross-border flow of communication in behalf of water between groups of different approaches and interests. e.g. scientists and artists, environmental organizations, economy and communities.
In 2022/23 One Body of Water Association organizes a series of SHARING WATER events in Vienna in cooperation with the Museum of Natural History, the Volkskundemuseum and the University of Applied Arts. The interdisciplinary dialog formats deal with the question what an equitable and sustainable sharing of the resource water entails.
Find more details.