To know a river: Hannah Foley

Here, a river runs through us. A dynamic body of water, dividing and connecting communities and ecologies, carrying legacies of industrial, colonial, and bodily processes. Hannah Foley’s exhibition asks: what do these waters remember, and where do these memories go? In what ways are we – as human, situated watery bodies – affecting these waters, and being affected in return?
Through performance and participation, sound and installation, Hannah’s work explores ways in which we might understand and collaborate with the bodies of water we live alongside of, proposing attentive and empathetic engagement with the hydrosphere.

Public Program

Workshop: Sound(ing) | Saturday 17th, 11am-2pm

Drawing on her research into embodied and performative fieldwork practices, Hannah will guide participants through exercises toward more deeply knowing the River Derwent.

Participants will meet at Rosny Barn, where they will discuss ways of knowing, and learning from, bodies of water. They will then walk together to Rosny Jetty, where they will be led through processes of attunement, and explore Hannah’s emerging fieldwork technique of ‘sound(ing)’; a method of deep-listening, sound-generating and -gathering, that seeks to reveal unseen negotiations and relations of site and bodies of water.
Words/text collected by the artist within this workshop and will be used in the following workshop (Fluid Scoring), contributing to a collaborative installation within the exhibition.

Bring with you

Please bring a clear glass vessel that you are willing to part with (e.g. a clean jam jar with labels removed), and a mobile phone or portable device able to record sound. Please also bring your own refreshments (water to drink), wear shoes appropriate for walking and clothes appropriate for the weather.

Accessibility

This workshop involves a 40 min. return walk from Rosny Art Farm to Rosny Jetty. Participants unable to undertake this walk are invited to meet at Rosny Barn, then make their own way to the jetty by car. If you are unable to drive yourself, please contact Rosny Farm, and the artist will seek to arrange car-pooling.

Register HERE

Sound(ing) Workshop with Hannah Foley | Humanitix

Performance: (Archiving) Wet Breath Exchange | Sunday 18th, times TBA

An indoor, participatory iteration of Hannah’s 2023 performance work, Wet Breath Exchange, activating sound-gathering installation works.

Workshop: Fluid Scoring | Saturday 24th, 11am-2pm

This workshop will be held in the exhibition space at Rosny Barn, where Hannah will lead a discussion on the relationships between river and landscape, performance and score.

Participants will undertake text-based and material exercises in scoring (documenting, proposing, holding, extending, archiving) their own encounters with watery bodies. Using excerpts of text and digital material collected during the previous workshop (Sound(ing)), participants will contribute to a large-scale installation within the exhibition.

Bring with you

Please bring your own refreshments (water to drink).

Accessibility

This workshop involves a 40 min. return walk from Rosny Art Farm to Rosny Jetty. Participants unable to undertake this walk are invited to meet at Rosny Barn, then make their own way to the jetty by car. If you are unable to drive yourself, please contact Rosny Farm, and the artist will seek to arrange car-pooling.

Register your free ticket HERE

Performance: To know a river | Sunday 25th, times 1.30pm

Following contributions from workshop participants, Hannah will activate the river installation that runs through the exhibition space.

Image: Liquid Lungs (detail, video still), sourced glass vessels, acrylic, stainless steel, vinyl tubing, LED lights, Jerry air and Derwent spray, 2023