An Indian Summer: River Studies
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 - Fri, 08 Aug 2014
Venue: Phoenix Cube
River Studies (Ganges Brahmaputra)
Michael Aschauer
Cube gallery at Phoenix
25 June – 8 August
Free Entry
River Studies is an ongoing project that explores how rivers affect people and cultures. Blending photography, data visualisation and cartography, the exhibition at Phoenix will feature a fascinating array of films and prints, alongside an interactive online artwork: play.riverstudies.org.
Rivers play a vital role in every landscape they flow though. Their basins give life to the land that surrounds them and they are a key economic resource - a site for trade, transport and religious worship. But they also draw pollution, violence and warfare, acting as borders as well as places of connection.
Rivers have had a long and complex relationship with human society, carving pathways that accumulate history and identity. How much of it is reflected by their appearance? Some differences are inevitable: urban and rural areas, changes in vegetation. But there are also more gradual and subtle differences to discover and explore.
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