A walk from the Dielenpader to the Art Museum in Schloß Neuhaus, Paderborn, and a multimedia installation in the museum
Commissioned by “I am the river”, 2025
curated by Marijke Lukowicz & Sophia Trollmann
Tatort Paderborn
opening and closing performances by the Daily Rhythms Collective
How do water bodies and their complex ecosystems shape our ecological identities? Can we sense our inner waters while deep-listening to the river? What is there to (un)learn, when we engage in a river friendship?
Island 1: Exercises in River Friendship
Take-away folder
Drawings and Texts: Daniela Brasil
Translations, editing, and artistic support: Catherine Grau
Graphic design: Markus Handofsky
Island 2: The Willow Nest
Sculpture: Daniela Brasil and Claudia Gensch
Weavers: Barbara Schmid, Naomi Richter, Pauline Keßler
& the pupils of class 10F
Pillows: Katharina Backhaus
Sound Composition: Hye-Eun Kim with field recordings from the Pader & The Daily Rhythms Collective (Daniela Brasil, Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz, and Hyo Jin Shin) as well as interviews with Blnd Abdek, Rosel Ahmad, Arash Azimi, Amalia Merschmann, Hevidar Fattah, and Josefine Hentsche.
Island 3: Water Memories
A Collective Sentimental Cartography
Photography, Drawings, Texts, and Objects by pupils and the artist
The pupils of class 10F at Friedrich-Spee-Gesamtschule joined the artist in exploring their geographies through water. They followed the rivers, seas, water tanks, and wells of their childhood memories, and engaged with the Pader through mindful walks and sensory exercises. This island became a subtle map of the bodies of water that have shaped and continue to shape us—a poetic merging of places and displacements. Fluid landscapes that unveil ecological identities and weave stories we share, towards a sense of Earth Citizenship.
Class teachers: Ewald Keller, Ellen Ruloffs
Principal and social studies teacher: Stefanie Baldauf
Participants: Blnd Abdek, Rosel Ahmad, Arash Azimi, Aaliyah Bark, Jakub Chojnacki, Emilia Sophia Corty, Fiona Döpping, Hevidar Fattah, Medine Felek, Mohammed Frijette, Josefine Hentschel, Simon Hoffmann, Barbod Jamshidi, Chiara Jochim, Mhd. Kutaiba Khalil, Philian Leue, Amalia Merschmann, Maximilian Paß, Vanessa Romanchenko, Yaroslav Rozhko, Emily Schwede, Michel Lukas Schwiete, Laura-Marie Spottag, Luisa Wieners & Fatima Hussain Alhosani (Guest exchange student from Abu Dabhi)
photography: Harald Morsch, Daniela Brasil, Stefanie Baldauf
