This dialogue is organised by the VU ART SCIENCE gallery to accompany the exhibition Water Views, together with other ART SCIENCE dialogues in which the topic 'water' will be explored from a multidisciplinary perspective. Artists and scientists together with the audience will explore several views on water from the colonial trade routes to the ecological impact of our changing climate, to old and new aquatic thinking.
This first ART SCIENCE dialogue for this exhibition will focus on the work of Tanja Engelberts and her project, We are multiple. Inspired by Bruno Latour’s The Parliament of Things, Engelberts examined the river Rhône from an animistic point of view. She has tried to imagine what it’s like to be a fast-flowing river, slowly filling with Anthropocene-era artifacts over a 600 kilometer stretch. A landscape steeped in chemical waste, that’s slowly disappearing due to climate change.
Would you like to delve further into the Water Views exhibition? This is your chance!
The talk will be led by Manuela Zammit and forms part of the programme of Amsterdam Art Week 2025, held from 20 till 25 May 2025.
