WATER MEMORY

National Museum of Australia
14 November - 16 November, 2022

Water Memory, 2022

6 minutes, 13 seconds
Single-channel High Definition video
16:9, colour, sound

Water Memory is a collaboration with water economist Paul Wyrwoll (Institute for Water Futures | ANU Crawford School of Public Policy | Water Justice Hub). This work follows the shifting form of water as it transforms from precipitation into run off from the mountains, through the drains/creeks of Canberra’s urban waterways all the way to the Murrumbidgee river where it evaporates as mist and back into clouds. This work is based on the premise that waterways are sentient beings with memories of what has come before.

The work was exhibited as part of the ‘Waterways Country Symposium’ at the National Museum of Australia in 2022.

The 3 day symposium as centred around Indigenous perspectives and explores how the interdisciplinary partnership of science and art can help us creatively re-imagine ourselves as part of waterway communities.