The event will offer two ‘Practices in Conversation’:
Alina Usurelu (Romania) ‘Let Your Heart Flow with Water: Coming Home Through Hydrofeminist Practice’
Dila Yumurtaci (Turkey/Portugal) ‘Becoming With: Ecosomatic Practices of Inter-Species Listening and Attunement’
This is the fourth of a series of free community events co-hosted by IFEEA generative- and core-members aiming to create a platform for sharing & conversing on eco-embodied practices - starting from what members do. Join us for a journey of embodied practices that deepen our connection to self, community, and the more-than-human world while inspiring ecological care and creative reciprocity. Participants will have an opportunity to experience the proposed practices and will have time to ask questions and engage in the emerging conversation.
Registration (free): To confirm your attendance and receive the Zoom link for the event, please click here and register via the Zoom registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0b4yGKC9Rmm11BQOIHwkiQ
Alina Ușurelu (n.1990). She is a PhD candidate in Visual Arts at West University in Timișoara. An interdisciplinary artist-curator, a creator-facilitator of transdisciplinary research processes, working across photography, videography, installation, performance, and somatic practices. She plays with images, bodies, and words to open doors to unseen worlds for various communities. The themes she addresses in her artistic proposals include sexuality and sexual identity, mental health, community development, and kinship with the more-than-human world.
Let Your Heart Flow with Water: Coming Home Through Hydrofeminist Practice is grounded in an embodied journey with water, memory, and a sense of belonging. The presentation weaves hydrofeminist theory with somatic practice, drawing inspiration from marine life and interspecies ways of sensing. I would like to create a space that allows participants to experience the porous relationships between the body and the environment, fostering a shared awareness of dwelling, reciprocity, and exchange. Please bring a hot calming tea, a blanket, and your journal.
Dila Yumurtacı is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and facilitator exploring alternative modes of being and relating within a more-than-human world. She is a doctoral candidate at Católica University in Porto with an FCT scholarship (2024–ongoing), and holds a BA in Cinema and an MA in Visual Arts. Her recent project, Becoming With—a site-sensitive performance integrating local performers through ecosomatic methods—was presented at the Serralves Museum (Porto, June 2025) and the Sabancı Museum (Istanbul, September 2025).
Becoming With: Ecosomatic Practices of Inter-Species Listening and Attunement. For this gathering, I will introduce my recent performance Becoming With, a site-sensitive work developed in outdoor institutional spaces where attention, relationality, and attunement—particularly with other species and the surrounding ecologies—form the core methodology. The presentation outlines how the project engages local performers and community participants through ecosomatic practices and briefly introduces its research component developed with the Neurobehavioral Lab, focusing on empathy measurements. The session also features a short video excerpt from the performance and a guided practice of listening to attune to our environment.
We look forward to your presence and participation in this community.
[IFEEA Core Members]
Berit Fischer / Minou Tsambika Polleros / Raffaele Rufo / Thomas Kampe
About IFEEA: The International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA) envisions a world where artistic expression and ecological consciousness coalesce to inspire positive change. It aims to create a community that nurtures ideas, fosters creativity, and collectively explores the intersection of arts, ecology, and eco-social regeneration.
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