WoW VIDEO Live screeningS August 21-23


OVERVIEW

In six sessions over the course of three days, the WoW VideoShow gathers short videos by over 15 artists from 11 countries working on, in, and with the water. Water and waterways feature both as a place where the work happens and an essential part of the work—friend, deity, home, and collaborator. Working with water, the artists are immersed in the issues at the base of human life—human and non-human relationships to “nature” and culture; economics, history, nation, and infrastructure; race, class, and access; ritual, desire, and the sensory world.


CURATORIAL STATEMENT

We set out to discover the shared ways artists are thinking about and experiencing water around the world. We discovered a series of models and approaches to water and waterways, that through art, and the intersection with other forms that think through being with and for our waterways. Artists Felipe Castelblanco, Tsubasa Kato, Jane Chang Mi, and Subho O Saha create a direct relationship with the water through their own bodies, performing a singular action in or on the waterway partners. Natalie Casagran Lopez, Basia Irland, Sto Len, and Mary Ellen Strom explore water through performance--music-making, storytelling, and ritual come to the water to reveal new perspectives. Neha Choksi, Jon Cohrs, and Alex Monteith, Natalie Robertson and Graeme Atkins relate directly to water as a permeable material that takes many forms, infiltrating all aspects of our existence. James Dawson, Miguel Arzabe, and Jeannette Ehlers use abstraction to animate water histories, economics, and spatial politics. Marie Lorenz, Geneveieve Robertson and Meredith Lackey explore the infrastructures that contain (or don’t contain) water. The histories that grow up around water inform the works of Jacob Rivkin, Ayesha Hadir, and Lydia Hicks. We are excited to share their works with you: join us to watch, think, and feel water, together, online.
Clarinda Mac Low & Nancy Nowacek

ProgramS

Trajectory 3, Miguel Arzabe

Trajectory 3, Miguel Arzabe

Through temporality

What rhythms of repetition and change can be found in water?

Friday, August 21, 12 noon


Mary Ellen Strom, Cherry River: Where the Rivers Mix

Mary Ellen Strom, Cherry River: Where the Rivers Mix

Through performance

How do waterways, as a site of performance, frame a (new) understanding of history, culture, and the larger natural world?

Friday, August 21, 3pm

sTo Len, Tôi đã thấy ( I Have Seen)

sTo Len, Tôi đã thấy ( I Have Seen)

Through Archives

Water contains the histories of human and more than human worlds.

Saturday, August 22, 12 noon

Marie Lorenz, Graybelt: Flood

Marie Lorenz, Graybelt: Flood

Through Infrastructure

Water is both force and volume that modern technologies seek to tame and exploit.

Saturday, August 22, 3pm

Jonathan Cohrs, Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt

Jonathan Cohrs, Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt

Through Materiality

The elemental nature of water builds and destroys

Saturday, August 22, 6pm

Shubho O Saha, Ek Dofa Ek Dabi / এক দফা এক দাবী (One point one claim)

Shubho O Saha, Ek Dofa Ek Dabi / এক দফা এক দাবী (One point one claim)

Through the Body

What do our senses tell us when we fully immerse our watery bodies into a body of water?

Sunday, August 23, 12noon