Navigation Diary

Wandering around Salvaterra de Magos
Bogdan, Leila, Neda wandering around Salvaterra de Magos.

Visiting the Sobralinho Palace
The crew's visiting the Sobralinho Palace and the main rehearsal of the contemporary opera "Clepsydra" by invitation of the Inesthetica Theatre...

Castelo de Almourol
From Constância to Vila Nova de Barquinha, passing through Castelo de Almourol.

From Rio de Moinhos to Constância
From Rio de Moinhos to Constância.

Exploring Tagus river
The MS Fusion, the Tagus and the crew.

A new way of printing
Collective gelatin printing with Viktor Vejvoda.

Abrantes’ fog

The Tagus crew in Abrantes, Portugal
The Tagus crew in Abrantes, Portugal.

Walking around
The surroundings of the River Tagus in Portugal.

Nothing like the riverside
The crew and the Tagus

Good morning, rio Tejo!
Good morning, Rio Tejo 💦

Crossing the border
The Tagus crew just crossed the border from Spain to Portugal

Another POV from the river
Kayaking day for the Tagus crew – an opportunity to get to know the river.

MS-Ultra
During the Tagus journey, the crew is traveling in a slightly modified MS-Fusion boat—the MS-Ultra—designed with lighter components to adapt to the...

Camping at Alcantara
Alcantara, first camping

Challenge accepted: an improvisation game with the river flag
The Tagus crew have accepted a challenge from the Danube crew: an improvisation game with the Liquid Becomings’ Tagus flag.

Toledo from the land
The crew at Toledo.

Film photos from the Vistula route

End of journey for the Rhine crew
The Rhine crew finalised their journey in Rotterdam preparing A Futuring LAB with Buitenplaats Brienenoord. Organised with Buitenplaats Brienenoord...

Ewa’s birthday
The Vistula route ended right on Ewa’s birthday!

Construction drawings
What we learned on a guided tour of the Vistula River in Krakow. Galar Krakowski: construction, according to Czesław Wójcik, a rafter from Łączany....

(re)sourcing energy
The river has always been a place of both leisure and work; swimming and fishing, floating and trading The last 150 years we have been putting that...

Open programme in Dom Utopii
The Vistula crew finalised their journey with an open programme in Dom Utopii: - arrival at the marina in Mogila, walk/parade through Nowa Huta,...

liquid governance
#hydropolitics #planetarythinking #hydrofeminism #hydrocommons This is a reflection on group dynamics, sourced in Astrida Neimanis’ thoughts about...

Daylight at Rotterdam
The light on the boat and the water in Rotterdam is beautiful!

#macroplastic
Photo by Tina #macroplastic The day we started the journey on the Rhine, a media communication was sent out saying that Greenpeace detected that the...

Eco-historical guided tour
An eco-historical guided tour of the Vistula in Krakow, 28.09.

Exploring Culemborg
Culemborg short exploration

A boat full of guests
The Flow boat full of guests in a round boat trip in Krakow

Culemborg Marina
Culemborg Marina

Tour at Cricoteca and on the boat
The Vistula crew have participated in a performative guided tour of Jerzy Bereś’exhibition in Cricoteca, Krakow. Then, they had a session welcoming...

Dinners at Marina
Dinners at Marina, Culemborg

Siłaczki (The Strong Ones)
Liquid Becomings in partnership with the Museum of Krakow: - the opening ceremony of “Siłaczki” (“the Strong Ones”), a group exhibition to celebrate...

Last night in Kazimierz

Another day, another island

We have guests from neighbourhood!

Announcement
Here we flow: Halfway on the journey up river from Köln to Rotterdam we’ve been shortly stuck in a lock, but now we bring it down to a new level of...

The Vistula crew visiting Ewa Zarzycka
We are visiting Ewa Zarzycka!

Gifts from our guests
More gifts from our guests, Joanna and Wilku

Hit by unpredictability
The Rhine crew is already in Arnhem, Netherlands, as they needed to do a speedy sail to avoid the strong wind expected for the next days.

A new island ahead
A very intensive day for the Vistula crew: a lot of meetings on the way to out new island.

Celebrating Equinox
The Rhine crew has also celebrated the Equinox in Arnhem Netherlands. “What do we harvest, what do we hold, what do we let go of in this time of...

Stuck on the sand
The second group of the Vistula artist crew is already being hit by unpredictability. The Flow boat got stuck on the sand. They called for rescue...

Getting ready to sail

Discovering more about the Cologne Progressives
Our second visit was hosted by Rita Kersting, Deputy Director of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, to discover more about the Cologne Progressives, an...

Visiting Ewa Zarzycka
The Vistula crew visiting Ewa Zarzycka, a Polish performer, conceptual artist.

The pain of a landscape
During the preparation days for the Rhine journey, the crew made two visits. The first one was to Aussichtspunkt Tagebau Hambach, a large open pit...

Fresh breads from local residents
Yesterday morning we had a surprise visit from local residents. They brought us fresh breads!

A new journey ahead
Exchanging practices and imagining the journey we will embark on together from Friday.

Less water than forecast
And here there was less water than forecast.

Vistula’s second crew
Going down to the boat for the first time with the second crew

Amulets made onboard
Amulets made by Patryck Zakrocki for the Vistula crew while sailing.

By the bonfire

Moored in Kazimierz Dolny
Well, we moored in Kazimierz Dolny and we will stay there for a while - drying everything that got wet and remembering the many kilometers of FLOW...

Vistula’s sunset are really breathtaking

The last goodbye from the Danube crew
The artists crew on their last goodbye at Golubac Marina, meanwhile the MS Fusion is being dismantled.

MS Fusion being dismantled at the end of the Danube journey
The MS Fusion being dismantled right after the end of the Danube journey, at Đerdap/Kladovo, Serbia.

Flow on route

Collective writing exercise
One of the last activities on the banks of the Danube: a collective writing exercise.

A beautiful sunset at Vistula
A beautiful sunset at the Vistula river.

Duck ponton at Veliko Gradište

A small stop on the route
The boat needed to be lifted to cross the threshold from the Kozienice Power Station.

Welcoming the new artist on crew
It’s the 5th day of the European Pavilion 2024: Liquid Becomings. New girl @eustachy on board. The sky is still clear. @espacoagoranow...

The curatorial team of the Vistula crew
The curatorial team of the Vistula crew: Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ewa Ciepielewska, Maria Magdalena Kozłowska. Crew: 11 people on board. It’s the 4th...

At Grocka
Morning at Grocka.

At Sava
Along the Sava yesterday morning with Alexandra and Branko from the Sava Embankment group.

Visiting Magacin Macura in Serbia
The arrival at Stari Banovci in Serbia, between Novi Sad and Belgrade, where the Danube crew visited Magacin Macura on Sunday 25th August.

Patterns on the Water Surface by Niel de Vries
I’ve been observing the patterns on the water surface and making little pictograms that refer to these patterns. In the coming days I’ll use these...

Departing from Warsaw by Agnieszka Brzeżańska

Stari Banovci Danube by Siniša Ilić
Stari Banovci Danube by Siniša Ilić

Travel notes in Vukovar by Elina Rodríguez
In a notebook that serves as an exchange of practices, a 'trans acciones utópicas'* between Anuk (an Argentinian artist colleague) and me, and now,...