Jul 28 2021
What is the water saying?

What is the water saying?

Presented by Headlands Center for the Arts at Headlands Center for the Arts

Headlands is pleased to host What is the water saying?, a screening curated by the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts and featuring video work by Carolina Caycedo, Sky Hopinka, Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira, Thao Nguyen Phan, and Charwei Tsai.

For thousands of years people lived in harmony with water, expressing a reverence and respect for the earth’s vast oceans, placid lakes, and coursing rivers. Only recently has society pivoted toward violently taming and manipulating these bodies of water, motivated by avarice and domination.

Spanning geography and time, the works featured consider the effects of human intervention on bodies of water, and in particular the negative impact on local and Indigenous communities.

Featuring:

Sky Hopinka, Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song (2014, 9:20 min);

Carolina Caycedo, A Gente Rio [The People River] (2016, 29:29 min);

Thao Nguyen Phan, Becoming Alluvium (2019–20, 16:40 min);

Charwei Tsai, Lanyu—Three Stories (2012, 12:00 min);

Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva, 4 Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018, 30 min)

This is the thirteenth event in Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts’ year-long season dedicated to thinking about our contemporary moment through the lens of Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña’s work.

Light snacks will be available for this nighttime event, but visitors should plan to pack any meals in and out as well as prepare for cool evening weather.

[Image: Video still from Becoming Alluvium by Thao Nguyen Phan]

Admission Info

Free – Reservation required

Phone: 415-331-2787

Email: info@headlands.org

Additional time info:

8:30 - 10:30 pm

Dates & Times

2021/07/28 - 2021/07/28

Location Info

Headlands Center for the Arts

944 Simmonds Rd., Sausalito, CA 94965

Parking Info

Parking is limited! Please follow directions from our parking attendants. If you can, we encourage you to carpool, bike, or take the bus.