Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutil School of Performance and Cultural Industries An Aphorism Water is transparent not invisible Although water is seethrough is often unseen A question To what extent does the popular consumption of water negate waters own processes and lifecycles making these in ID: 928789
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Imbibing
or how to drink water
Dr Nicolas Salazar SutilSchool of Performance and Cultural Industries
Slide2An AphorismWater is transparent, not invisible.
Although water is see-through, is often unseen.
Slide3A questionTo what extent does the popular consumption of water negate water’s own processes and lifecycles, making these invisible to critical valorisation?
Slide4Research does not see waterWithin the humanities, there is a major gap in research on the subject of drinking culture. Work in the related fields of cultural studies, sociology and performance tend to focus on alcoholic drinks, cultural drinks (tea and coffee), fizzy drinks and natural beverages (e.g. juices, smoothies, etc). Drinking water is of no cultural research concern, reflecting an unconcerned and mindless popular culture of water drinking.There is a hierarchy and asymmetry of cultural practice when it comes to drinking water within urban, Western cultural conditions of possibility.
Slide5What does a critical way of drinking reveal?Drinking water critically implies understanding the responsibility of water consumption in relation to: 1) Extraction2) Re-mobilisation3) Commoditisation
Slide6From currency to currentThe challenges of re-valorisationWater is commonly reified. It is turned into a thing or object of human consumption. Not only at the physical level, but also as an idea, water is a thing, an item whose value is determined:Politically, as resource, to be managed through governance, policy, local government programs, etc.Economically, as commodity, and as an item of exchange and use value.
Slide7How to see and know waterChange must happen at the level of a re-moding of knowledge, so that understanding at the level of personal and public opinion can be re-defined through a biocentric value base. This demands knowing water from a knowledge base that is:SpiritualSomaticCommon
Slide8To imbibe:To absorb water, to make it your own somatic body, to transubstiantiate.