ELLE A ÉLÉVÉ LA VOIX AU-DESSUS DE LA MÊLÉE - UND DANN? questioned the validity of the concept of inclusion and proposed to work instead with Donna Haraway’s kinship concept between humans and non-humans. The pigeons present in the dispositive of “elle a élevé la voix au-dessus de la mêlée» - as the only non-human living beings - remained however as the “authentic stage design” of human affairs. The three-weeks research “Now I’d rather go snorkeling with you” deepens this idea of kinship and examines our relationship with aliveness within and outside of us humans. What options do we have to touch and be touched by other beings?
To explore this question, we descend into the cold Lake Zurich with snorkels, goggles, wetsuits, headlamps, hydrophones, and underwater jukeboxes to linger. We combine our snorkeling experience with the method of Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros, reflect on it and thus bring it into a narrative form.