Marie Tučková

The site-specific sound installation by Marie Tučková (b. 1994, Prague, Czech Republic) has been written and produced for the occasion of the exhibition. The poly-vocal composition installed inside of a well existing at the Monastery territory creates a delicate intervention into the space, as if giving voice to the subterranean waters underneath the architecture. Would you drink me when I am rotten? addresses questions power, dominance and violence looking at water not merely as a natural resource, but a weapon of control.

Wells are intimately linked with water, a source of life that is at once vital, hidden, and unpredictable and resemble a symbol of life and an interface between worlds - heaven, earth and the underworld in various mythologies and religious traditions across cultures.

In dialogue with the historical well of Bílá Hora, the new work echoes Tučková’s interest in water and its various bodies, subject that has long shaped a leitmotif in her practice. Departing from feminist ideas and questions around ecology, the concerns raised the Would you drink me when I am rotten? sound urgent and relevant for today especially at the backdrop of the violence committed by the Israeli forces against the Palestinian citizens, especially in Gaza Strip within the recent years. Based on the research by various human rights organisations, such as B’Tselem and Amnesty International, and reports by the United Nations, Tučková puts forward the discourse around access to water as a fundamental human right.

Marie Tučková
Would you drink me when I am rotten?, 2025
sound, 2’23”
composition for 4 voices
courtesy of the artist

Reading and listening session by rivermoans entailed activating Marie Tučková’s sound installation Would you drink me when I’m rotten? following a short presentation into her research on the subject of the on-going water apartheid in Palestine.

The listening session comprised of reading a poem Would you still drink me when I’m rotten alongside the running sound installation, as well as devoting 5 minutes of time to listening to Lover’s Hymn by El-Funoun, Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe.

r i v e r m o a n s
Untitled, 2025
listening session
courtesy of the artist

28 September 2025, Prague