DAY 1 – THURSDAY, 19 JUNE


Location: Glasgow School of Art | Reid Building & Surroundings

🔹 Opening
Welcome & Introduction to the Programme
9:00–9:15 | Reid Auditorium

🔹 Panel 1: Liquid Landscapes of Memory in Film
9:15–10:45 | Reid Auditorium
Chair: Struan Gray
  • Where Memory Flows: Rivers as Spaces of Memory in Post-Conflict Chilean Film — Struan Gray
  • Nonhuman Memory-Work in the Practice of Martha Atienza — Ian Harvey Claros
  • Groundlessness: The Sea and the Archive in John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea (2015) — Spencer Hurley
  • It Is Time to Say to the Water, "Disobey" — M. Ty (online, pre-recorded)
    Palestinian hydrological resistance and the work of Jumana Emil Abboud

🔹 Panel 2: Hydrocritical Geographies & Infrastructures
11:00–12:30 | Reid Auditorium
Convened by Struan Gray
  • The Doggerland Energy Complex — Arieh Frosh & Ed Compson
  • Veins of Saltwater: Archipelagic Resistance in the Gulf — Shahriar Khonsari (online)
  • Flume Study 4: Aesthetics of Turbulent Waves — Avi Varma

🔹 Curatorial Introduction & Exhibition Visit
12:30–13:45
  • Questing Under—and Across—Seas: Zeljko Kujundzic in Scotland — Jelena Sofronijevic
    With curatorial intro to SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries (Travelling Gallery)
  • Drop-in exhibition visit & curator tour | Stow Building Car Park

🔹 Artist-Led Workshops: Embodied & Situated Practices
14:00–16:30 | Various Locations
(Participants choose one)
  • Aqueous Becomings: Soundscapes and Diasporic Canal Mythologies — Moira Salt
    Sound workshop | Stow Building & Forth & Clyde Canals
  • Loops and Cuts: Disrupting Canal Histories through Site-Writing — Maria Howard
    Site-writing & moving image workshop | Reid Seminar Room 1 & Forth & Clyde Canal
  • Sounding Waterways: Part I & II — Eleni Wittbrodt & Chang Meng
    Screening and presentation | Reid Auditorium
    • Part I: Sounding the Clyde – new work by Eleni Wittbrodt + screening Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (1979) by Marguerite Duras
    • Part II: Wet Utopia: Rehydrated by Tea — Chang Meng (online presentation)

🔹 Keynote Lecture (online)
17:00–18:00 | Reid Auditorium
Dr. Laleh Khalili – The Corporeal Life of Seafaring
Author of Sinews of War and Trade, Professor of International Politics

DAY 2 – FRIDAY, 20 JUNE


Location: Glasgow School of Art | Reid Building

🔹 Parallel Panels: Practice-Led Presentations – Watery Methods
9:15–10:30

Panel A: Aqueous Archives: Vessels, Migrations, & Imaginaries | Reid Auditorium
  • Vessels of Passage: Remembering the Derry Boat — Rachael Ryder
  • Conjuring the Oceans: World-Building Ancestral Marine Ecosystems — Christina Peake
  • Six Knots — Ali Vanderkruyk

Panel B: Fluid Subjectivities & Watery Bodies | Reid Seminar Room 1
  • Fluid Borders — Emily Beaney
  • 90 Miles — Rosa Prosser
  • East German Queerness and the Sea as Hydrokinetic Motif — Matt Parry (online)

🔹 Panel C: Reading (for) Water: Hydropolitics
10:45–12:45 | Reid Auditorium
  • Curating Currents: Circular Exhibitions (2023) — Bengü Gün
  • Modern Water — Harriet Crisp
  • My Wits or Salts — Bryony Gillard
  • Cache — Xiyao Chen

🔹 FieldARTS 1
13:45–14:45 | Reid Auditorium
  • Dual-Use: Logistics, Reversals, and Infrastructural Aesthetics on the Clyde — Fred Carter

🔹 FieldARTS 2
15:00–16:00 | Reid Auditorium
  • Fascism and the Deep: The Submerged Image — Ifor Duncan & Sonia Levy

🔹 Submerged Cinemas: River as Method – Closing Film Event
18:30–20:30 | CCA Theatre
Film programme curated with FieldARTS
Featuring works by Sonia Levy, Ifor Duncan, and Hope Pearl Strickland
Discussion moderated by Fred Carter