Hosted by Amina Ross
[VIRTUAL]
“The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.”
How are black artists working in time-based media using representations of fluid, liquid, and water to accumulate resistance? To flow more freely?
Water flowing freely in the context of an ocean, or a lake is a part of a natural cycle, seamlessly shifting between states of liquid, solid, and gas. Water flowing freely in a house, once it transgresses its casing, is threatening. A leak can take down a whole building, silently over time. Its low viscosity lends itself to a fast-paced rushing, it’s hard to contain.
The rushing waters of a shower clear the body’s pathways, free up the spirit. Water in a bath or in a clear vessel on a table is a conduit, a healer, a connective technology.
Rushing waters are hard to resist.
This screening, meditation, and conversation invites artists & friends to explore the effects of water in the context of digital worlds through sound and video. These artists use water, its histories, and its metaphors to talk about power and the transformation of societal and internal structures.