where the eyes of water talk
Author/Artist/s:
with Aukštumala raised bog and The Institute for Multi-Species-Singing, Aio Frei, Andreas Haberl, Jūratė Sendžikaitė, Kallia Kefala, Kim Bode, Martyna Šulskutė, Suza Husse, Tomas Rimkus
Format:
Radio piece
Time:
November 2025
Premiere
25 November 2025
8 pm
Live broadcast on Cola Bora Dio on 88.4FM in Berlin and 90.7FM in Potsdam, DAB+ Kanal 12D in Berlin/Brandenburg und Kanal 7D in Berlin.
Live stream https://www.colaboradio.org/
where the eyes of water talk is an audio-poetic piece that weaves together tunes from different strata of aliveness and death of an ancient raised bog being and troubled ecosystem in the Nemunas delta in Lithuania. Aukštumala raised bog is a breathing entanglement of ecological and social wisdoms that a group of ecologists, artists, scientists, farmers, education workers set out to learn through the transdisciplinary WETBEINGS Aukštumala ~ Arts, Science & Story Field Symposium.
The work critically touches on ideas of peatland co-habitation, protection and management. It has been composed together with participants in Aukštumala, combining two threads: One are the voicings of the Institute for Multi-Species-Singing, a temporary moisty singing multi body initiated by Yasmeen Al-Qaisi to create singable patterns out of what we already know and what we can learn from sounds and stories of wetlands. The second are the audio traces of the time travel of a paleo-ecological coring into the body of the bog and what it surfaces – the beginnings of the bog, as well as meanings and mimesis around organic and mineral matter.
where the eyes of water talk is a commission for WETBEINGS, an arts, science, research and storytelling format in and with Aukštumala through experimental arts and radio productions.Organized by the arts and research platform Sensing Peat at Michael Succow Foundation / Greifswald Mire Cent, and the Foundation for Peatland Conservation and Restoration, Lithuania, in cooperation with Allianz Foundation. Supported by the Andrea von Braun Foundation, the Administration of Lithuania Minor Protected Areas and Nemunas Delta Regional Park.
Concept and production: Yasmeen Al-Qaisi
Bog beings: Aukštumala, Nemunas delta, Baltic Coast, Lithuania
Curation / transdisciplinary research coordination: Suza Husse
WETBEINGS organisers: Suza Husse, Jūratė Sendžikaitė, Andreas Haberl
The piece includes recordings of works, workshops and talks produced for WETBEINGS: Sedimentary Murmurations - A Sonic Offering by Aio Frei, Peatlands have layers in space and time - a time travel to the beginning of Aukštumala by Andreas Haberl, /dɑːˈneɪ.jɑː/ or /dɑːˈneɪ.jə/ Offerings for Transitioning Landscapes by Kallia Kefala and Kim Bode, Begging for Names: The Practice of Recognizing the Invisible by Martyna Šulskutė with Suza Husse, Humans in Aukštumala 11 thousand years ago. Results of archaeological studies by Tomas Rimkus, The Institute for Multi-Species-Singing by Yasmeen Al-Qaisi with Vytautas Eigirdas, as well as the voices of human and more-than-human participants
Image: Kim Bode
