Museum Late: Hydromancy
12 JuneThursday 12 June, 6-8pm.
This event is free, but booking is essential.
Museum Late: Hydromancy
Join us for an evening of contemporary performance, music, and film that explores our relationship to the sea.
Of Mythic Worlds Museum Late curated by Harold Offeh, 2022. Photo by Katherine Mager.
Hydromancy is the practice of exploring the future through observation of water, from its ripples, to colour, ebbs and flow. Taking hydromancy as a starting point this evening of contemporary performance, guest curated by artist Harun Morrison, includes film, live music, poetry, meditation and interactive video.
The contributing artists draw on varied cultural heritages and folklore that foreground the poetics of water, the sea and mythical watery-beings, as opposed to the sea as a human-centric resource.
Artists: Giulia Damiani, Adam Christensen, Sian Fian, Santiago Mostyn, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Harun Morrison, Pouya Ehsaei, Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin
Artists
Harun Morrison is an artist and writer based in London. For several years he lived on-and-off the River Lea. His work is informed by living on the inland waterways and permacultural design. Harun is a former associate artist with Greenpeace UK and a Visiting Fellow for the Arts and Ecology Centre at Goldsmiths University. His work, a contemporary sea shanty in collaboration with Marie Kølbæk Iversen, is included in the current Sainsbury Centre exhibition The Sea Inside.
Adam Christensen is a London-based artist who makes performance, video, fabric and text works. For Hydromancy, Adam Christensen will perform an intimate set of songs, accompanied by the accordion.
Giulia Damiani is an artist and researcher working with text and performance. Damiani will perform her work Sea Urchin Stains and the Capture of Eruptions, a piece of writing about a woman’s encounter with these hard and spiky round-shaped animals to the point of becoming slightly obsessed with an idea of them.
Marie Kølbæk Iversen is an artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work explores humanity’s changing relationship with nature, casting a critical light on the present-day exploitation of natural resources. Marie Kølbæk Iverson will perform a Guided Meditation developed with Harun Morrison.
Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin is a multidisciplinary artist working via seen and unseen methods of communication exploring memory, sensorial affect, reclamation, and equity. As part of Hydromancy, Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin will present Moon Water, cultivated on the Full Moon the night before the event.
Santiago Mostyn works across film, text, installation and performance. Working with personal footage and archival material, he uses layering and collage to build narratives that examine questions of personal and collective memory and identity. Santiago Mostyn will present Citizen, a film documenting the artist rowing a small boat across the Aegean Sea, from Dilek Peninsula in Turkey to Samos in Greece.
Sian Fan is a British/Chinese interdisciplinary artist currently based at Somerset House Studios. Her work combines movement, the body and technology to explore embodiment, spirituality and human experience in the digital age. Sian Fan will share Incantation, a digital performance combining dance, motion capture and videogaming to create an immersive installation.
Pouya Ehsaei is a musician, sound designer, producer, curator and promoter from Iran, currently based in London.
Image: Still from Incantation by Sian Fan, courtesy of the artist.