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ALONG THE RIVERS OF KURDISTAN
LI SER ŞOPA ÇEMÊN KURDISTANÊ
The Text is also available in Kurdish.
If we look at the individual drop of water as both a hydrological and at the same time a socio-cultural medium - this is how rivers are an interaction of the individual drops - the carriers of life along our earth's crust.
They flow through the landscape with the earth's gravity, move through territories, brush against forests and interact with living beings like us humans. They are lifelines of the otherwise barren landscapes and meander between mountain ranges or through landscapes that have already become desert and dried out, as in Kurdistan. Rivers like Firat/ Euphrates , Xabûr , Munzur, Dîcle /Tigris, Murat ,... form routes in the Anthropocene for those questioning this geography.
Leading us along their streams to people's echoes of their ecological practices, socio-cultural symbols, cultural memories, myths and resistances. They evaporate along dry soil and return to the earth in the form of raindrops within the water cycle, strengthening local resilience and allowing hope to flourish. The eternal cycle of evaporation, precipitation and the flow of water creates a network of communication between living beings.
ALONG THE RIVERS OF KURDİSTAN - LI SER ŞOPA ÇEMÊN KURDISTANÊ is an open learning process and offers a roadmap based on the waters of Kurdistan. It invites you to a dialogue about the rivers and people of Kurdistan. Provides food for thought about people's global ecological actions via the water network to adapt our cultural memory to the new climatic challenges. From Dicle to Firat and finally in the Xabûr river system, the collective knowledge will now meet the “Knowledge River Jineolojî ” via water for a dialogue . The river that no dam can stop, no patriarchy can shape and no authority can control. Here it is the women who turn these rivers into discourse, protect the rivers, question the practices around them, worry about how we treat the waters so that the rivers remain healthy, exist and preserve the lifeline of this geography.
This project is based on Şermin Güven's field research and ecological work and was expanded for the collaboration around the exhibition Wasserspiegel - Water Bodies and the cultural tool for the Kurdish communities commissioned by Spore Initiative.
Spore commissioned Şermin Güven to organize the following events within the accompanying public program Water - Wassersorge(n) :
March 22, 2024 – Amed/Diyabakir: Water Day, workshop with children on rainwater harvesting with Bisar Icli
April 13, 2024 – Opening program: Along the Rivers
2.-3. Mai 2024 – GAVÊN JINAN LI SER ŞOPA ÇEMAN / Women's path along the rivers, a workshop program in Qamislo, Rojava and online
A feminist collective conceptualization by Platforma Jin a Ekolojiê, Rojava University Institute for Ecology, Berivan Omar, Şermin Güven.
May 25, 2024 – Workshop about Lake Urmia and Lake Van with Ayhan Urmie, Kita Piya in Kreuzberg together with Yekmal e.V. as part of the Kurdish Culture Days
June 29, 2024 – Jineology as a river of knowledge: A conversation with Jineology Committee and Jinwar, Havin Al Sindi and Ceni e.V. moderated by Şermin Güven
July 13, 2024 – River weekend: Film screening of "Munzur" by Mehmet Gürü Avcu and A conversation with Rojda Arslan and Şermin Güven
July 14, 2024 – River weekend: Film screening of "Khabur" by Nafis Fathollahzadeh
A discussion with Nafis Fathollahzadeh, Şermin Güven, Künstlerhof Frohnau
