Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images - Symposium

Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images is a two-day symposium exploring the poetics and politics of water in contemporary artist moving image (AMI) practice and methods. 

Unfolding across two days, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June, the programme will present artist talks, research presentations, film screenings and artist-led workshops. Hosted at the Glasgow School of Art’s (GSA) School of Fine Art, the event is curated by researcher Kelly Rappleye as part of doctoral research, and organised in collaboration with FieldARTS research programme of the Infrastructure Humanities Group (University of Glasgow), and Dr. Struan Gray (Falmouth University). 

About:
Water as Method: Space, Place & the Hydrological Gaze in Moving Images reflects on innovative approaches emerging in artists' moving image and film, that respond to intersecting planetary crises of climate catastrophe and geopolitical conflict through the lens of water. Situated in Glasgow’s hydrocolonial landscape—shaped by flows of imperialism, climate extraction, militarism, and urban dispossession—the programme examines how hydrocentric approaches can cultivate new solidarities of watery connectivity and wet resilience. Through two days of film screenings, workshops and interdisciplinary dialogue, participants will examine hydropoetics and artistic hydro-imaginaries in moving image to reframe and reimagine entrenched narratives of place, memory, and belonging

See our event website for updates and general info: https://waterasmethod.cargo.site/  

See our website for a detailed schedule.
Programme Highlights include:

Keynote
🔹Dr. Laleh Khalili — The Corporeal Life of Seafaring, Online (Author of Sinews of War and Trade, Professor of International Politics)

🔹 Curator Talk & Exhibition tour — Jelena Sofronijevic of EMPIRE LINES Podcast
Questing Under—and Across—Seas: Zeljko Kujundzic in Scotland
Sofronijevic presents SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries at the Travelling Gallery

Workshops
🔹 Maria Howard – Maria Howard: Loops and Cuts: disrupting linear histories of the Forth & Clyde canal through site-writing and moving image
🔹 Moira Salt – aqueous becomings* Experimental sound workshop on diasporic canal imaginaries
🔹 Eleni Wittbrodt – Sounding the Clyde: Drifting with Marguerite Duras
🔹 Chang Meng – Wet utopias (performance online)

FieldARTS Presentations
🔹 Fred Carter – Dual-Use: Logistics, Reversals, & Infrastructural Aesthetics on the Clyde River Corridor
🔹 Sonia Levy & Ifor Duncan – Fascism & the Deep: The Submerged Image

Research Presenters Convened by Dr. Struan Gray
🔹 Dr. Struan Gray – Rivers of memory in Chilean documentary
🔹 M. Ty, Arieh Frosh & Ed Compson, Sepncer Hurley, Ian Harvey Claros, Emily Beaney, Bryony Gillard,
Avi Varma, Christina Peake, Matt Parry, Harriet Crisp and many more...

Practice-Led Presentations
🔹 Rachael Ryder – Vessels of Passage: Remembering the Derry Boat and Irish Migration
🔹Curating Currents: Circular Exhibitions (2023) — Bengü Gün
🔹Cache — Xiyao Chen
🔹Conjuring the Ocean: Archival Methods Meet Art Practice — Christina Peake
🔹Fluid Borders — Emily Beaney
🔹My Wits or Salts — Bryony Gillard
🔹90 Miles— Rosa Prosser
& More!

Closing Event: Submerged Cinemas: River as Method
CCA Theatre, 18:30–20:30
🔹Films by Sonia Levy, Ifor Duncan, and Hope Pearl Strickland
Discussion moderated by Fred Carter

This event is curated and organised by Kelly Rappleye (AHRC-SGSAH PhD, Glasgow School of Art, Art Curator 16Collective) as part of doctoral research, and hosted by the GSA's School of Fine Art research, with support from SGSAH engagement funding. The programme is organised with collaborators with FieldARTS research programme of the Infrastructure Humanities Group (University of Glasgow) and Dr. Struan Gray

Symposium website: https://waterasmethod.cargo.site/ 
contact: waterasmethod@gmail.com
@waterasmethod