liquid kin

ocean comm/uni/ty festival

June 17 – June 27, 2025

Programming

Digital

Upcoming

The online moments for meeting, sharing and listening that make up the 2025 ocean comm/uni/ty festival are a mix of regenerative practices, contemplative rituals, and artistic innovation that merge art, ecology and activism.

Held in the wake of the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the Festival allows us to move beyond “awareness” toward awakening: an embodied, collective sense of oceanic kinship.

“The ocean is our co-curator, our kin, our method. We are water remembering water. Return as ocean.”

—Lígia Oliveira, artist, designer + researcher; and Community Curator for the festival

Through interconnected zones of Imagination (Seeds), Kinship (Blooms), and Action (Harvest), the Festival brings together artists, scientists, researchers, activists, and policymakers to refract conference themes into poetic diplomacy, emotional processing, and future-prototyping:

1. Inspiration/Imagination (seeds)
Making space for possible futures and speculative thinking, where we can imagine regenerative futures for and with the ocean.

2. Kinship (blooms)
Exploring collective practices to deepen our connection to the ocean and prepare the ground for transformation. These include contemplation, storytelling, listening, or sharing knowledge and experience.

3. Action (harvests)
Inviting tangible actions to happen throughout the festival, that can contribute to concrete outcomes – however small. These might include poems, the start of new collaborations, and the documentation of the festival on Ocean-Archive.org.

LOCATION

Online on Ocean-Archive.org

PROGRAM

WEEK 1

Tuesday, June 17

4–5 pm
Opening the Relational Tide – A Choreography of Arrival

Opening ceremony with Lígia Oliveira

5–6 pm
Meeting circle

Wednesday, June 18

5–7 pm
Water Rituals
Three mini-workshops about rituals and language:

The Guild of Hydrosemiosis – talk and ritual with Isabel Val Sánchez, Michał Dawid and Mirjami Lantto Klein

We are Listening! Exploring the Role of Performance Art and Ritual in Ocean Conservation – talk and exercise with Gina Celaya

Echoes – poetry workshop with Ekin Özdemir

Thursday, June 19

4–5:30 pm
Watering Words. Encounters

Movement + ecosomatic practice with Watering Words collective (Kai Feldhammer, Joanna Gruntkowska + Małgorzata Suś)

Friday, June 20

3–4:30 pm Film screenings + mini talks

Earth Fight, mimiko türkkan

Amphibia, Cyane Findji

Orchestras of Awe/dacity, Kayla Archer

WEEK 2
Tuesday, June 24

10:30–11:30 am
Meeting circle

5–6:30 pm
Cassandra’s burning waterfall hair: A story clinic

Deep listening + storytelling with Alison Neilson, Sevgi Aka, Dwight Owens, Julia Jung + Małgorzata Suś

Wednesday, June 25

6–7 pm
Artist residency talks

Artist residency showcase with talks from fatma belkis isik + Frieda Verlage

7–8 pm
Webs of Water

Reflections on OCEAN / UNI Activation series with Gokcen Erkilic, Raymundo Vásquez Ruiz, Pablo Torres + Federico Pérez Villoro

Thursday, June 26

5–6:30 pm

ArtScience talks

Projects integrating science with art, data and ecology:

Immersive Data, Ecosystem Modelling & Spatial Representations: Making the Intangible Visible and Emotionally Perceptible with Nuria Bofarull and Jeroen Steenbeek

Liquid narratives – Building a community for art and science creations with Francisca Mariz, Harris Iveson, Jéssica Anastácio Jacinto + Małgorzata Suś

Friday, June 27

5–6 pm
Listening session: Intimate Geology by Bog Bodies

A collective listening session to the album 'Intimate Geology' by Bog Bodies collective – jo willoughby + Joris Frowein

6–7 pm
Closing the Relational Tide – The Ocean Speaks: A Ritual of Remembering

Closing ceremony with Lígia Oliveira

LEARN MORE

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