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MECHANICS OF FLUIDS
Mechanics
of Fluids is an interactive installation that includes a data
base on local and global water conflicts and processes, a
working space around issues of water and an in situ rain water
collector. The ongoing 'No To Water Charges' campaign, one
of the first non - sectarian civic issues in Northern Ireland,
is the starting point for a far wider exploration. Water becomes
as such a dynamic topic, which fluidises the post-conflict
political scene and infiltrates the public debate with a kind
of materialist thinking concerned with economic and environmental
issues, micro- and geopolitical strategies, civic rights,
dynamics and self-organisations.
Water carries at the same time other imaginaries and logics,
which are not anymore those of the solid oppositions. In her
text “The Mechanics of Fluids’, Luce Irigaray
shows how these the fluids logics have been long time repressed
within Western thinking and connects this cultural and political
failure to deal with the working of fluids with the social
and discursive exclusion of woman and the feminine.
  
In
the same way, we associate the presence of water in the current
political debate with the emergence of an active materiality,
sociality and semiotics that could induce refreshing dynamics
within local and trans-local contexts.
 
 
As
a workshop-in-progress Mechanics of Fluids invites local actors
involved in the water protest and discussions, to use the
space during the exhibition and to bring personal contributions
to the database/ website. The project proposes a device
for trans-local debates (local/global, interdisciplinary,
inter-communities) that could be further used for other topic
based discussions and initiate as such an immaterial activist
platform.
BIOGRAPHY
Atelier d’architecture
autogeree (aaa) (studio for self-managed architecture) is
a non profit association and an interdisciplinary network
founded in Paris in 2001 by architects, artists, urban planners,
landscape designers, sociologists, students and residents.
This collective practice conducts research into participatory
urban actions aiming for the re-appropriation and reinvention
of public space through everyday life activities (gardening,
cooking, playing, reading, producing, debating, walking etc.)
 
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