“Bar de Água” explores the historical and cultural consumption of mineralised waters, a practice dating back to 40 BC with Asclepiades’ balneological method. Over the last two centuries, the concept of water has shifted from material origins to a more abstract, de-localized form. This installation invites participants to reflect on this abstraction by mapping local spring s and consuming handmade mineral waters, prompting a dialogue on the effects of separating water from its physical and social contexts.

Julian Weaver is an English artist who works mainly with sound. His work focuses on matter, substance and sensation in scientific and historical imagination and fiction. Water is a regular component of his practice, which ranges from the acoustics of bubbles to the extractive economies of seaweed to the mapping of hydrogen isotopes in nuclear fusion, from the recreation of the cold water cures of Hydropathy to the exploration of the Water Canal. Spot as site of nausea. He was interactive artistic director and artwork commissioner for Fusion, Power to the People: His recent work includes Nearly Present (Full of Noises, Acoustic Commons, 2022), artwork commissioner for EUROfusion, Rocantin for Colonel Gouraud ( Color Out Of Space, 2019), Outwork (Fort Process, 2018) and Wet Sensing (Whitstable Biennale, 2018).