Organised by Whitechapel Gallery
Situated along a strip of east London Thames beach at low tide, River Studio invites artists and researchers from all disciplines to consider the material, political and imaginary ecologies of water. This workshop explores how humans and nonhumans co–compose water and considers the cultural, spectral and chemical impacts that form, inform and are formed by the river. Our collaborative enquiries draw on science and art to reimagine how rivers are examined, understood and interpreted.
We ask a deceptively simple question: what is in the water? Responses will be co-constructed across analogue and digital modes through practices that incorporate methods of listening and attunement, speculative writing and assemblage. The outcomes of the workshop will be shared online following the event.
This workshop is developed in partnership with Arts Catalyst and forms part of Matterlurgy’s online project sensitives.stream.
This event is part of our season Ways of Knowing: Water / Fluidity.