WATER
The fifth in Christof Migone's series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12th from 5pm to 5am the next day. Each year the event moves through each word of the phrase ‘You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air of Life and Death’ and a group of international artists activate the word of the year in myriad ways. Streamed live on YouTube.
This year the word is 'WATER’, and the work will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our "humid brains" (Isabelle Stengers).
Recipes for getting wet: out of the blue, blue planet, into the molecular, cellular, time’s involved, time runs through it, hydrophonics, hydrojams, glistening gestures, swimsink, cloud seeding, drought, contamination, advisories, nautical sea, nausea, leagues under, deep diver, pearl mother, Mariana Trench. We quickly see this flow forever, for, as Yve Lomax put it in Sounding the Event: “Yes, this noisy restless sea is pure multiplicity: it is mixture, it is contingency and it is turbulent.” Or, put even more succinctly, as Italo Calvino’s Mr. Palomar realizes: “isolating a wave is not easy.”
LINEUP:
- ARE - HOUR 1 (17:00 GMT)
artLAB PRESENTS UpStream/DownStream by Tom Cull with Danielle Butters & Sruthi Ramanarayanan
- ARE - HOUR 2 (18:00 GMT)
National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition PRESENTS Amanda Amour-Lynx, Kaya Joan, and Star Nahwegahbo
- ARE - HOUR 3 (19:00 GMT)
WalkingLab PRESENTS Eli Nolet
- ARE - HOUR 4 (20:00 GMT)
Doris McCarthy Gallery PRESENTS Farheen Haq, Laura Millard, Jordyn Stewart, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, and Bagida’waad Alliance
- ARE -HOUR 5 (21:00 GMT)
Art Gallery of Hamilton PRESENTS Celia Vernal, Tyler Tekatch, Laurie Kilgor-Walsh
- ARE - HOUR 6 (22:00 GMT)
SASAH PRESENTS Michelle Wilson and the Coves Collective Ensemble
- ARE - HOUR 7 (23:00 GMT)
Thames Art Gallery PRESENTS Dickson Bou, Jamie Dronyk, Sharmistha Kar, Peter Lebel, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Valerie Mills-Milde, & Quinn Smallboy
- ARE - HOUR 8 (00:00 GMT)
Futura Resistenza PRESENTS Christof Migone
- ARE - HOUR 9 (01:00 GMT)
Forest City Gallery PRESENTS Racquel Rowe
- ARE - HOUR 10 (02:00 GMT)
Glenfiddich Artists in Residence PRESENTS Penelope Cain
- ARE -HOUR 11 (03:00 GMT)
McIntosh Gallery PRESENTS Shannon Cooney and Paul Walde
- ARE - HOUR 12 (04:00 GMT)
New Adventures in Sound Art and Other Sights PRESENT Brady Marks & Mark Timmings (Wetland Project)