{"id":2703,"date":"2026-07-30T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:37:20","slug":"disaster-fountain-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Fountain, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the <em>Aqua Vitae<\/em> programme, curated by L\u00fddia Pribi\u0161ov\u00e1 for Tren\u010d\u00edn, European Capital of Culture 2026, artists Nomeda &amp; Gediminas Urbonas engage the two primary alchemical elements of water and fire in <em>Disaster Fountain<\/em>, a participatory installation that transforms firefighting equipment into a climate-responsive fountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developed in collaboration with the volunteer firefighters of Opatovce, the project reimagines fire hoses, nozzles and firefighting technologies as an environment that cools public space while inviting playful public participation. Flowing water animates the fountain, generating acoustic resonances, cooling mist and ever-changing fluid formations that visitors can experience directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspired by the mysterious fifteenth-century <em>Voynich Manuscript<\/em>, the sculptural forms evoke its enigmatic imagery of plants, baths and hydraulic systems while simultaneously referencing the firefighters&#8217; instrumentarium. Water becomes a medium of movement, energy and collective encounter, while the firefighters&#8217; expertise grounds the work in a subtle dialogue between water and fire, infrastructure and play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Concept:<\/strong> Nomeda &amp; Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania \/ USA)<br><strong>Design Collaboration:<\/strong> Dimitrios Moutafidis (Greece)<br><strong>Collaborating Firefighters:<\/strong> Volunteer <em>Firefighters of Opatovce<\/em><br><strong>Production:<\/strong> Simonas \u0160idlauskas (Lithuania)<br><strong>Fabrication Consultant:<\/strong> Art\u016bras Burneika (Lithuania)<br><strong>Curator:<\/strong> L\u00fddia Pribi\u0161ov\u00e1<br><strong>Project Manager:<\/strong> Veronika Juricov\u00e1<br><strong>Producer:<\/strong> Tren\u010d\u00edn 2026 \u2013 European Capital of Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image render: Dimitrios Moutafidis <strong>\u00a9<\/strong>\u00a0the authors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a participatory installation that transforms firefighting equipment into a climate-responsive fountain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151,3],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-fountain","category-projects","tag-disaster-fountain"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?author=1"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Urbonas-Studio_Disaster-Fountain_2026_rendering_Dimitrios-Moutafidis_03-270x322.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?cat=151\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Disaster Fountain<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?cat=3\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">projects<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Disaster Fountain<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">projects<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?cat=3\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Disaster Fountain<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Disaster Fountain<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 hours ago","modified":"Updated 12 hours ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 30, 2026","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 30, 2026 10:20 am","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2026 10:37 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Disaster Fountain, Tren\u010din, 2026","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}