water%holding
is a collaborative project using music, dance, and visual art to explore the ways water infrastructure visibilizes complex entanglements between contamination, property, and the promise of health.
We have created and shared choreographies, musical scores, multimedia exhibitions, and guided walks. Currently, we are exploring the curb stop: a shut off valve in a water pipe that runs from a water main to a building, common in North America. Collaborators include Alexandra Lakind, Ro(b)//ert Lundberg, Aaron Walker, and Tamas Kemency, among others.
The above images are part of a years-long photographic project (Ro(bert) Lundberg and Alexandra Lakind) documenting water and sewer line covers in sidewalks and streets—circles that hint at vast systems many prefer not to be bothered by. The sidewalk covers also mark the division between public and private property underground, the settler legal landscape physically manifesting for those walking above.
water%holding
video collaboration, 2022
water%holding
video collaboration, 2022
musical score composed by Ro Lundberg to sonify the underground water infrastructure, as a method to investigate how such hidden systems manifest private property relations and clean (or not) drinking water. The score is overlaid on the video, moving at nearly an imperceptible rate across the screen.
the choreographic interpretation of score, video, & wearables by Nina Vroemen as part of an ongoing collaboration that activates their speculative potential as lead-water garments.
VIRAL ECOLOGIES, 2023
VIRAL ECOLOGIES, 2023
to check out our publication in Viral Ecologies N.6 click HERE
Viral Ecologies is a multipronged investigation of emergence. Emergence as the process of revelation after concealment. Emergence as small parts that give rise to complex patterns and systems. And emergence as the coalescence of new thought.
co-curated by collaborators E. Saffronia Downing and Rosemary Holliday Hall.
See it, Touch it, Rub it, Lick it: How to Study the Curb Stop
risograph publication, 2022
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risograph publication, 2022
