The Guild of Hydrosemiosis

The Guild of Hydrosemiosis is a para-institution that explores different water bodies and hydro-social entanglements as dynamic agents of meaning-making. As an art/research collective, we problematise the material realities that are produced through capitalist and neoliberal hydrosemiotic logics (the particular ways of knowing and institutionalising water that position water bodies as individualised, passive, and powerless parts/consumers of water infrastructure) and imagine possibilities for (un)knowing and instituting otherwise. Diffracting academic, technoscientific, and institutionalised practices of hydrosemiosis through feminist, embodied, and speculative sensitivities, we ask what gestures of meaning-making matter in our (individual and collective) relations with water.
The Guild of Hydrosemiosis was founded by Michał Dawid, Mirjami Lantto Klein and Isabel Val Sánchez in 2024 during the art-research programme IF LAB.

Hydrosemiosis

Radio Show (September 2026, Ongoing)

With the intention of opening up our practice as a collective, we move our guild’s gatherings into the community radio space. During this radio hour, we read together and to each other, perform, discuss, host listening sessions and invite new and potential guild members. We aim to create a horizontal, open and ethereal space for exploration of new sonic hydrosemiotic practices. The show will be hosted by Isabel Val Sánchez (Barcelona) and Mirjami Lantto Klein (Helsinki).

Hydrosemiotic Entanglements in the (Sub-)Arctic: Scores from the Wetness Field

Article published in GeoHumanities (July 2026)

The Guild of Hydrosemiosis

Exhibition at Display Gallery (Prague, 2024)