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What do we, womxn artists, scientists, activists, and organizers, know about submersion, swimming, sailing, sinking, and ultimately seeking the source of our collective power—and how do we know it? — Shanai Matteson

 

Artist, writer, community-based researcher, and Target Studio artist-in-residence Shanai Matteson will collaborate with social scientist Mae Davenport to answer that question. Shanai will also collaborate with comic artist, printmaker, and publisher Zak Sally to use posters, zines, and other popular print media to amplify and activate womxn’s stories of water and culture.

 

Image: Shanai leading a printing workshop at Yo Mama’s House in November 2019. Photograph by Boris Oicherman.

Shanai Matteson: A Ship’s First Shape

How do we survive and navigate in spaces and systems designed to oppress, exclude, silence, or undermine us? As womxn artists, scientists, activists, and organizers, what do we know about submersion, swimming, sailing, sinking, or seeking the source of our (collective) power—and how do we know it? —Shanai Matteson In this residency project, artist, writer, and community-based researcher Shanai Matteson (Water Bar & Public Studio) will collaborate with social scientist Mae Davenport (Center for Changing Landscapes) and an emergent network…

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Ways of Knowing Water—Psíŋ and Mní

By Shanai Matteson What does it meant to really, truly know water?  Not to know about it—but know it, learn with it, teach in it? These are some of the questions guiding the Ways of Knowing Water research collaborative, which began convening in December to explore new models for knowing and teaching water at the University of Minnesota and beyond. Our collaborative—which is co-convened by Boris Oicherman (Weisman Art Museum), Jessica Hellman (Institute on Environment) and Shanai Matteson (Water Bar & Public Studio)—is comprised of scholars who know and…

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Ways of Knowing Water

We often talk about the problems of water or water issues, but one thing I have learned by spending time with the Collaborative is that water is not a problem. It takes the shape of the container that it’s in, and our culture is the container that gives meaning and shape to water and to our relationships with water, land, and one another. —SHANAI MATTESON, THE WATER BAR AND PUBLIC STUDIO   Ways of Knowing Water is a community of…

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