LEAKING LANSCAPES
Leaking Landscapes is a long-term, evolving artistic project that unfolds across different places, landscapes and communities.
Rather than moving linearly towards a single finished work, the project develops through a series of artistic encounters, research periods, gatherings and works created by different artists in different locations. Each place becomes an active part of the process, shaping what emerges there and influencing what can happen elsewhere.
A work created in one geography may leave behind a question, a material, a method or an image that travels to another place and takes on a new form. Nothing is simply transferred or repeated. The project changes through movement, translation and encounter.
Leaking Landscapes therefore asks whether an artistic project can function as a living network rather than a fixed production: a structure in which artworks, people, materials and ideas continuously affect, absorb and transform one another.
Leaking Landscapes explores what happens when the boundaries between bodies, landscapes, materials and infrastructures begin to dissolve.
The project starts from water: as matter, resource, territory and movement. Water leaks, drains, evaporates and overflows. It carries information, waste, memories and bodies across borders. Through these movements, Leaking Landscapes asks what happens when something can no longer be contained.
The research develops around a series of interconnected states: leaking, draining, overflow, leftover, duration and evaporation. What is being lost? What is being wasted? Where does excess go? What remains after something has been drained? Where do the leaks of the individual body meet larger political, ecological and infrastructural systems?
At the centre of the work is the ideas of a dissolving scenographies. Rather than creating a fixed environment in which performance takes place, we imagine a landscape in constant transformation, where bodies, materials and structures affect, absorb and dissolve one another. Something disappears; something else emerges. Leaking becomes both a subtle and brutal act of transformation.
The project continues CuntsCollective’s ongoing interest in bathing culture and water as spaces where intimacy, social structures and politics meet. The bath is a place of care and pleasure, but also of infrastructure, consumption and extraction. In Leaking Landscapes, these questions expand beyond the bath itself and into wider landscapes: rivers, drainage systems, pipes, tanks, coastlines and territories.
Leaking Landscapes is developed as both a performance work and a longer-term international research platform. Through residencies, artistic encounters and collaborations, CuntsCollective brings together artists and collectives across different geographies to explore how artistic knowledge, methods and resources can move between bodies, places and communities.
We are interested in what happens when we stop asking how to build something stable, and instead ask how to remain in movement.
What if leaking is not only loss?
What if overflow can become a meeting place?
What if evaporation is an escape route, a way of continuing to flow when confronted with an obstacle?