Liquid Balance

Elemental experience with water

Project in cooperation with the elementary school of Neufelden
Within the series Land in Sight - Olympics

16th of July 2010
Station Neufelden

Water is the basic element of human interaction. Without a joint management of water supply, without the interaction connected to the common reference water, human settlements and development would not have been possible.

The pupils experienced this in a joint and playful interaction handling the element water. Having the aim of creating a balance they placed different vessels of different shapes, individually filled on the teetering wooden surface. Everybody found his or her place in this action and could contribute to the liquid balance by their position.

The process of attunement and coordination with others to create a balance was experienced as a satisfying and pleasurable human process and also described as this. The fragility of this community act is being conveyed in the making process through the element of water as something liquid and process-oriented.