Dissertation, 2024, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International Supervision: Gudrun Rath, Ute Hörner Abstract In On Amphibiousness: Thinking and Creating Beyond Land-centrism, a PhD project in artistic research, I develop the idea and approach of amphibiousness to provide new perspectives for going beyond one of the main contemporary manifestations of land-centrism, the gap between land and water. I propose the concept of land-centrism to describe a position that evaluates other environments, especially water, in terms of terrestrial criteria. Through case studies and fieldwork on water-related sites, such as the hydraulic systems in Beijing, the Sangyuanwei Polder Embankment System in Foshan, the snow-making industry in Austria, and the Venetian Lagoon, I investigate contemporary land-water relations in an intercultural context. In doing so, I develop amphibiousness on multiple levels, encompassing a set of artistic methods derived from current discussions in media studies, anthropology, and philosophy, as well as from local knowledge that I encountered during my fieldwork. As part of the project, I created a series of artworks, such as Canal Park (2021), Two Eels in the Park (2022), Prefabricated Soundtrack from Fish Ponds (2022), Revisiting the Warm Paradise (2023), Reading Ouroborian (2024) across various media of video, animation, sound, text, installation, drawing, painting.

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