“Much like the world, my work is alive, bubbling, growing, and shape-shifting.”

Feeding Station reflects on intimate ecologies, care, and the consideration of other-than-human creators whilst providing food for thought and living bodies.

Inspired by the hydrofeminist idea of bodies being water-carrier bags, Priehodová composes her installation of 12 interactive sculptural elements that can circulate and hold water. The water circulation, an information channel for microscopic residue that tells about the history of its former vessel, becomes activated daily.

Feeding Station explores co-created installations in collaboration with non-humans. For example, yeast, lending its scent and building intricate structures; plants, slowly sculpting a raw clay vessel; and the flow of time that slowly melts and transforms the installation.

Thinking of organisms as water carrier bags (for example, human bodies are about 60 per cent water), Priehodová reflects on combining the building attributes of clay, the dust from which we rise, and the reviving characteristics of water, a transformative power. “Water has taught me to nourish a more present flow in the past year: it transformed my thought processes from almost strictly nihilistic to thoughts about freedom, sharing, and care.”

“Feeding Station“ is an interactive installation composed of twelve elements, that became activated once a day during Minerva Art Academy’s graduation show.

The twelve parts are:
activation manual, care receiver, last bit of primordial slime, water bag, bubbling pot, well well, rainshower, instant things, fascia, our daily bread, lover’s spit, and timer.

Once a day at 5 PM a daily activation would occur, where the artist (activation manual) would share a story of becoming with the audience (care receivers). Together they would (time) travel through the installation listening, feeling, touching, tasting, engaging.

showing Feeding Station piece by piece