About this event
The Line was delighted to partner with CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and Arup Phase 2 in organising a free symposium which drew together artists, water specialists and researchers to explore how site-specific art and art outdoors respond to water. East London’s increasing vulnerability to flash flooding and water pollution was the starting point for discussing how art, the socio-political and the ecological are intertwined.
This event included an exclusive screening of a new film commission by artist Helen Cammock. The film documented Cammock’s new site-specific spoken word and sung performance, The Lay Shaft Drive is Down, at the House Mill, Bromley-by-Bow on 17 September, imagined on the occasion of The Line’s exhibition, Tributaries. Taking the House Mill as its starting container, The Lay Shaft Drive is Down considers mills in relation to water, to industry, to food, to hardship and nurture: the tie to the colonial relationships that bind both people and production through contentious, often violent, yet sometimes radical histories. Tributaries has been realised in partnership with Arup Phase 2 and funded by Arts Council England and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts.
Speakers:
- Joseph Cook: anthropologist, creative practitioner, and boater based at University College London
- Sonia Levy: London-based artist and 2022 recipient of the S+T+ARTS4Water’s “The Future of High Waters” residency hosted by TBA21 Lison
- Sabrina Musset: French-Brazilian visual artist, curator and the co-founder of The Collective Makers
- Martin Shouler: London Water Leader at international engineering and technical consultancy Arup
Event presented by Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Deputy Director of CREATURE and Trustee of The Line.
Image Credit: Ursula Biemann, Deep Weather, 2013, 9-minute video. Courtesy of the artist.
Details
| Date/time | Wednesday 18 October 2023, 6pm – 8.30pm |
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| Book ticket | Event ended |
| Location | Wash Houses, 16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP |
