00:00We're opening up a third space. We're going to meet people where they are, sharing what
00:07we have, which is our artistic practice, and listening to what their hopes and stories
00:13and dreams might be from the future. We realised that the only way to do that was to sail on
00:18rivers.
00:20Dozens of international artists are sailing on four iconic rivers, on boats.
00:25They will join Lisbon on 7 November. It's the 2024 European Pavilion, Liquid Becomings.
00:33An opportunity to get interested in the artistic potential of watercourses in search of resilience.
00:38Heading to the Danube, where another event is taking place.
00:41How can art be made to live on water? Can rivers be spaces for liquid, itinerant, inclusive
00:49cultures? A festival is taking place here in Budapest, and we're going to see that with them.
01:01Charlyne and Nicolas imagined Fluctuation, the first river festival to have an impact
01:05in Europe. Their peninsula has taken a step forward in several cities.
01:09We take on board artists and activists, we sail for a whole week, we arrive in the
01:13next city, and the next weekend we redeploy this festival in the next city, and so on.
01:19But the Hungarian state had to be rethought. A Danube creek is expected. A reminder that
01:24rivers are fragile spaces to protect.
01:27So this is where we repatriated Fluctuation.
01:31And now we're going to conferences and roundtables.
01:35So here we're getting closer to the Village of Solutions.
01:39They are so engaged.
01:41What we really want to highlight is the mixed use of rivers.
01:44It's their poetic use, their festive use, but we can also talk about ecological potential
01:49and inclusive and social potential.
01:55We met Thomas, an activist for river art in Berlin.
01:59He conducted a study on the cultural boats of Europe, a kind of manual of liquid culture.
02:04Everybody that I know that does stuff on the water, they care a lot about the river.
02:09They organize river clean-up. When you actually do something on or with the river,
02:14you make mistakes, but you learn a lot.
02:17Somehow we need to find ways that people actually have a common interest with the river
02:22and then take care of it.
02:24A thought shared by the association Valio, a partner of the festival,
02:27which strives to make the Danube a more accessible, cyclable and clean river.
02:34Because of climate change, it's very important that we can get into these rivers
02:39and that they are so clean that we can go in and take a bath in them,
02:43just like it happened in Paris.
02:45And in Budapest, the water is much better and there is much more space for us to use it.
02:53This is the end of Water Matters. Take care of your rivers and see you soon.
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