Can we develop new, collective ways of listening to, or sensing rivers? How can we better connect with our local bodies of water?

The All Rivers and Species Act is a collaborative, process driven project exploring the rights of nature and the personhood of a river. The project was developed during the FIBER Reassemble lab 2021, where our diverse group of artists investigated policy texts, AI tools, sound and video making. This exploration resulted in a speculative river policy text, a short sound and video piece and a full day, site specific, participatory experience which explores—through sensing, ceremony and making—the possibilities for understanding bodies of water as living beings rather than as a resource. We use virtual world-building tools with hands on craft techniques to prototype fantastic beings fighting for legal rights of the rivers and bodies of water

A collaboration between Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Gabriela da Cunha, Jenny Hadley, Lily McCraith, Cristina Napoleone and Nayeli Vega.

This project was developed in the frame of the FIBER Reassemble Lab: Weaving With Worlds and supported by FIBER and Holland Festival.

Poetically Based Rendering is a project developed around four water bodies: the Britz canal, the Oder river, the Main and the Peene river.
Through extensive engagement with these sites we gathered sounds, smells, materials and textures through physical and digital sensing tools. This resulted in a methodology for working across physical and digital
modes, translating bodily experiences into digital world building.
Field recordings, weavings, images and 3D scans are processed using digital tools (Photogrammetry/Polycam, Materialize, Blender 3D, Unity), resulting in speculative beings, stories and virtual river worlds.