Water and the Arts Event
We are very enthusiastic to welcome you all to our Water Webinar Series! The series is jointly-organized by staff members at Ghent University, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Queensland. The webinars aim to offer you a wide-range of perspectives on the topic of Water, which will be skilfully presented by experts from different fields. We also look forward to engaging with you in discussions and hearing your valued opinions and thoughts.
To view the Water Webinar Series schedule and register for individual webinars, please visit our website https://www.waterwebinars.org! All sessions will be broadcast on three separate occasions (16:00 AEST - Brisbane, 16:00 CET - Ghent and 16:00 PST - San Francisco) on the scheduled day. If you find yourself outside one of these three time zones, you can choose for yourself which broadcast you wish to attend (but don't forget to convert your time).
The Water Inspiration session will be broadcast on the 18th of February. We are honored to announce an exciting and, keeping with the theme, inspiring line-up for this particular webinar:
Christel Stalpaert (UGent) – Art Activating Water Awareness
Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris (UC Berkeley) – Water Gold Soil: The American River
Greg O. Niemeyer (UC Berkeley) – Water Bell
Maria Lucia Cruz Correia (Art Centre Vooruit, Gent) – Common Dreams: Flotation School
Peter Aers and Lotte van den Bergh (Building Conversation - Art Centre Vooruit, Gent) – Parliament of Things: Urging Radical Forms of Political Representation
How can art(ists) co-create a new shared view and new agendas on water (e)quality? What is the impact of this co-creative position on the artists’ status and role? How can art play a crucial role in gathering data for the upcoming field of citizen science? Maybe art cannot change the world, but art can contribute to changing the world, together with others sciences, and art can definitely change our perspective on the world. In our research into a water sensitive future, art and artists can contribute to a better awareness of water quality and water equality.