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

The article examines contemporary media art practices that engage with the sea as a dynamic, fluid milieu for poetic and performative creation, challenging traditional terrestrial biases in geopoetics—a field focusing on embodied engagements with place through poetry and materiality. It highlights methodologies centered on drifting and floating as processes that transform poems from fixed texts on the page into evolving, site-specific, and mediated poetic events shaped by sea currents, weather, and technology, such as GPS tracking. Through site-specific performances along coastlines and artworks like "Objects in Odysseys" and "Islet," the sea is conceptualized as both a physical and metaphorical space that expands poetic meaning via interaction with its mutable environment. The article contributes an arts-based framework within the blue humanities that reconsiders poetic creation as an open, performative, and spatial practice intertwined with the watery environment.