Lecture series fine arts – Nada Rosa Schroer

Both hard coal mining, which ceased in 2018, and the ongoing extraction of lignite have severely impacted the water cycles in the Rhineland and Ruhr regions and created a massive technological infrastructure to control water bodies. In the context of extraction, water is defined by its economic functionality: as a troublesome or lucrative raw material that is pumped out and diverted, polluted and filtered, exploited and discharged. What potential do methods of post-human phenomenology (Neimanis 2012) offer to enable a way of perceiving and relating that goes beyond an abstract and modern understanding of water? What is the relationship between hydrological infrastructures of the "water economy" of large energy companies and feminist infrastructures of ecological care and hydrocommons (Neimanis 2017)?

Reflecting on the research exhibition project FLUID CIRCULATIONS, I approach the aqueous, technological, cultural and political relationships and propose a hydrofeminist reading of infrastructurally permeated water landscapes.

Nada Rosa Schroer is a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Material Culture at the Technical University of Dortmund and a freelance curator. Beforehand she worked as curatorial assistant at the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne (2020) and as curator for the media art festival FUTUR 21 - kunst industrie kultur at the LWL/LVR-Industriemuseen (2020-2022). Curatorial work at the Temporary Gallery Cologne, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne, among others. She studied Cultural Studies, Staging of the Arts and Media and Cultures of the Curatorial in Leipzig, Hildesheim and Mendoza, Argentina.