How do political systems define queer identities? How have ideas of healthy and unhealthy bodies shifted over the past century? Can water be owned? Does it have healing powers? Starting from bathhouses and bathing rituals in different regions, Marcus Peter Tesch and lynn t musiol explore the visibility and disappearance of queer bodies, as well as water as an element increasingly contested between private interests and the public good. In a format combining live podcast, lecture performance, and a concert by sound artist Roberto Maqueda, the boundaries between here and there, between past, present, and future, become increasingly porous, flowing into one another. Drawing on urban legends, bathhouse gossip, and historical facts, an as-yet untold story of water unfolds: a whisper, a current, a dripping echo.
