Proposes a performative journey of transformation and becoming that explores interpersonal empathy; B.O.W (Bodies Of Water) is a manifesto for the curative and transformative valences of water: water seen as an element of exchange between oneself and the outside, water that unites the emotional with the organic, water as a mirroring surface of the other and the external environment, water as a different way of functioning in a collective, water as a change of inter and intra relational paradigm.

“The porosity, fluidity and leakage of our selves are not mere metaphors; the water in your body will leave you, spreading over your skin when you sweat, rolling down your cheeks when you cry, and expressing your ecstasy when you love.” Astrida Neimanis tells us in Bodies Of Water-Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. Looking for these bodies of water in the concrete reality of the human body, we “stumble” on the intracellular poetry and explore almost imperceptibly the relationship of the feminine with patriarchal structures. We look for new ways of relating to the emotions often associated with weakness and inefficiency and give voice to the “flow” towards an alternative functioning.

B.O.W. (as a weapon) claims the right to manifest and give strength to the emotional body, healing processes, building an ethics of care and functioning according to it.

B.O.W. (as a reverence gesture) gives way to a space of contemplation, celebration and gratitude that the sense of human and not only human community confers.

The relationship with our bodies, with our soft and fluid tissues, full of layers and different textures, appears as a white sheet of paper on which we project instilled social paradigms, judgments, restraints. Today I propose an exercise of self-acceptance and celebration of softness on all physical or metaphysical levels.

Concept: Cristina Lilienfeld

With: Ema Alexandrescu, Adriana Butoi, Cristina Lilienfeld, Alina Ușurelu

Sound: Lala Mișosniky, Max Richter

B.O.W. is part of the larger project  “Rains, Rivers, and Torrents…” conceived by Alina Ușurelu, Cristina Lilienfeld and Maria Bîrsan, and developed by the Developing Arts Association.