WHAT:
The River Runs project investigates movement in artistic practice towards less tangible and more complex spaces of public/private contestation, spaces that challenge the notion of belonging itself. Developed as a river laboratory/playground during residency at Modern Art Oxford (2012) project explores how river (and water) as a public good operates to define our sense of belonging on an individual and collective scale. The work examines where and how a public sphere, or “publicness,” can be constituted today, and the role of artistic intervention in its production.
WHO:
In this project, Urbonas Studio: Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, artists, are collaborating with Tracey Warr, writer and curator, and Giacomo Castagnola, architect and designer .
The project is being assisted too by many other people, living, working, playing on and in the river, cropping up in the course of the narrative . Most of the research files are collected during August 2012 while at Project Space Residency, Modern Art Oxford, UK. More: http://www.vilma.cc/river/?cat=21
