Bodies of Water Symposium at the Liverpool Biennial

On September 11th I’ll be facilitating a walk as part of Bodies of Water Symposium: Regenerative Arts Practice.

Titled Neuroqueer Ecologies: Noticing Differently, our walk will see us travelling as a group from Black-E to the Queen’s Wharf on the River Mersey, noticing and creatively recording how water passes through the city, informed by my research into the value of sensory and processing differences (see Neuroqueer Ecologies).

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‘ A sensory walking workshop down to Queens Wharf led by artist James Aldridge, exploring ways of seeing and being with river ecosystems. 

Informed by James’s Queer River research project, including ongoing research into the value that sensory and processing differences bring to ecological awareness, this walk will encourage us to pay attention to our senses, to notice and record how water moves through the city.

The total length of the walk will be approx 1.5 miles, with regular pauses for conversation and reflection. ‘

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Curated by Up Projects and guest curator Justine Boussard (a fellow Associate at Climate Museum UK), the symposium brings together artists, curators, and environmentalists to discuss how public art can respond to the climate and biodiversity crises.

The symposium aims to raise the ambition for what it means to be environmentally responsible both technically and culturally as well as share learnings from UP Projects’ Bodies of Water commissions by artist Ann Dun Hee Jordan.

It will ask ‘What is the role of socially-engaged public art in the context of our accelerating environmental crisis?’ and features experts from Culture Declares Emergency, Invisible Dust, Liverpool Biennial, Julie’s Bicycle, Kings College London, Metal, Haigh Hall, Sunderland University, The Place Bureau and more.

The symposium will take place at The Black-E, 1 Great George Street, Liverpool L1 5EW from 12:30 – 18:30pm.

You can book your place here, and will be able to select my walk as your breakout session nearer the time. The walk will be limited to a maximum of 20 participants.

It’s shaping up to be a brilliant event – let me know if you’re coming!