Common Mud & Flooded Pits with Cooking Sections

Common Mud & Flooded Pits looks at Istanbul’s postindustrial wetlands, water buffalo herding, and the pressures of mega-infrastructure expansion. As shipping canals, runways, bridges and highways encroach on grazing lands, different spatial tactics emerge to sustain the permanence of buffalo, herders and their companions. Their struggle revolves around resisting displacement to restore the muddy commons. This lecture-performance examines wallowing as an ecological and political act, questioning the extractive logics of land grabs. Amid shrinking wetlands and flooded mine pits, food, music and grazing corridors on grey zones offer new ways to wallow—reorganising territories, reclaiming space, and fostering multispecies engagements.

The public programme is presented with support from Gaia Art Foundation and the World Living Soils Forum by Moët Hennessy