Interdisciplinary Conference

TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

in Art & Science

9-13 September 2025, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana

Danube body of water. Trans corporeality of Danube River protection

Event Hours: 10/09/2025 (10:00)

Location: Komuna - Kino Šiška

Andrea Gogova

Keywords: Trans corporeality of Danube, environmental ecology, Danube River protection

The project is outgoing from interdisciplinary approach to the Danube River conservation as trans corporeal interacting bodies of water. We seek to understanding of the relationships between humans, more than humans and water environment, and contribute to meaningful responses to ecological crises.

The aim of the project is to develop specific transcorporeal “Danube body of water” (forth DBW), which manifests bio-cultural diversity in the certain time-space. It refers to the continuing co-evolution and adaptation between biological and cultural diversities and its reflection in language [1].

Mapping evolved trans corporeal complexicity of DBW, intermeshed with the dynamic, material world of each connected human or more than human hybrid assemblage [2] of equal water-based togetherness [3] organised by ‘matters agential realism’ [4]. Mapping bio and cultural diversity is passed down through language [5]. It follows to Maturana and Varela`s ‘Structural coupling’ notion and its reflection in the patterns of cognition and communication embedded in a biological, psychological and cultural context. [6]

Trans corporeal Danube body of water is dynamic transformative material world in which human is the more influential actor of developing figuration of DBW. It is presented by the figuration of ArtSci work, which is communicate possible environmental posture to Danube River protection as komplex of mentioned relations.

[1] Maffi, L.. (2007). Jules Pretty; et al. (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Environment and Society. p. 269. ISBN 9781446250082. Retrieved 27 October 2012

[2] Alaimo, Stacy. In Braidotti, Rosi. and Hlavajova,Maria. 2019. The Posthuman Glosary. Bloomsbory Press.

[3] Neimanis, Astrida. 2017. “Bodies of Water – Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology”. Bloomsbury Academic, London

[4] Barad, Karen. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.

[5] Alaimo, Stacy. In Braidotti, Rosi. and Hlavajova,Maria. 2019. The Posthuman Glosary. Bloomsbory Press.

[6] Varela, F.J., Rosch, E. and Thompson, E. 1991. The Embodied Mind. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Andrea Gogova

I am a full researcher at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management in Bratislava. I received my doctorate in multimedia arts. In my transdisciplinary research involving art, science and technology, I focus on posthuman phenomenology, hydro-environmental artistic practices and approaches to sympoietic relationships and communication between humans and more than human. My works reflect the interconnection of various experiences – literature, environmental studies, ecophilosophy, semiosis and visual art. It is a space of thought in which approaches of an equal, environmentally sustainable view of the relationship between human and non-human species and biocultural diversity are created.

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