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Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives
Professor Jiao Xingtao and The Yangdeng Art Cooperative Project
The Yangdeng Art Cooperatives, with a cumulative total of more than 37 artists and students, worked each year in collaboration with local villagers in the small rural village of the same name as the river, Yangdeng, in a remote rural area of Tongzi County in Guizhou Province. Organized and led by Professor Jiao Xingtao, this project, over many years, was begun to “reconstruct the continuity between art and life” through an emphasis on “artistic negotiation.” As such, it constitutes a socially engaged art initiative, locating this remote rural village sited on a river as the experimental art locus for approaching an independent but profoundly collaborative working method…
In the Crook of My Elbow
River / Museum
Photo Essay of Ilhabela Rivers
Reflecting On Brackish Waters
Between Two Rivers: Two Ballads from a Scots Traveller Family
The River and The Bridge
Exploring the Map: The Mississippi River (from North America: Portrait of a Continent)
Explore North America through this contemporary hand-drawn map and this video, that follows the Mississippi River and explores more than just the banks of the river, including Chicago, the Ozarks, and Acadiana.