Drifting poetries, floating gestures: Performing with/upon the sea in contemporary media arts

To think of the sea as a page is to consider its liquid surface as a site of writing. The current article explores fluid and performative aspects of the sea in contemporary art practices, which incorporate performance art, poetry and creative media. Based on a critical reflection on coastline and sea-oriented performances of the author and drawing on key ideas that consider the sea as a dynamic milieu of embodied knowledge and expanded creativity beyond western terrestrial bias, the article explores the author’s reconsideration of geopoetics through mediated, performative and fluid practices towards watery poetics in blue humanities. It reflects on the ways parallel processes of writing, floating, drifting and transmitting shift the meaning and articulation of a poem from the page to the sea towards an expanded poetic situation with coordinates.