Category: Water
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Thames Tides moves to the Bartlett School of Architecture
We’re on the move again Thames Tides will be showing at the Bartlett School of Architecture on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September 2016. 140 Hampstead Rd.NW1 2BX. (Room G02, Ground floor) Free entry 10am – 6pm. Please email or give us a call (crispinhughes@gmail.com 0207 207 0608) to arrange entry. Here are some photos and videos taken…
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Thames Tides at the Brunel Sinking Shaft
Our Thames Tides installation has opened at the weird and wonderful Brunel Sinking Shaft in Rotherhithe. Only running till Friday 16th Sept. so get along quickly!Details here:https://thamestides.wordpress.com/screenings/
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Thames Tides at the Cinema Museum
‘Thames Tides’ launched at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London on Sunday 4th September. See the Thames Tides website for more details and upcoming screenings.
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Thames Tides
A large-scale, 5-screen projected installation, created along the tidal Thames in central London This is my latest collaborative show with Susi Arnott. Twice a day, the Thames rises many metres to fill secret, enclosed spaces in central London. Cameras and stereo microphones, held under wharves, jetties and office-blocks, recorded four distinct audio films. Starting slowly,…
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Work, Climate and Donkeys
For donkeys as well as people, the brick kilns in India are dangerous and unhealthy places to work – but unemployment is worse. At the RAJ kiln near Agra, accommodation for donkeys and their owners lies empty. Unseasonal rains have waterlogged the brick kilns and there’s no work for them here. Back in the home…
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Grazing
In the UK the word ‘grazing’ brings to mind lush green fields. In Madhupur village near Agra we followed donkey owner Daudayal as he took his family’s donkeys to the only grazing available to them. The land doubles as a latrine for the entire village, which lacks basic sanitation. Seeing donkeys eating human excrement turned…
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A simple story about donkeys and people
With thanks to Mwende, Beth, Lydia, Jadida & The Donkey Sanctuary Aid policy and interventions can raise very complex issues but in drought ridden Mwingi in NE Kenya the role of donkeys is really very simple. Without donkeys, people and their livestock cannot survive. Donkeys form the vital final link in the distribution of water,…
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Unquiet Thames
‘Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which it was covered, and its sodden state, this boat and the two figures in it obviously were doing something that they often did, and were seeking what they often sought.But, it happened now, that a slant of light from…
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Donkeys and ‘resilience’
‘Resilience’ is the latest buzzword in social, environmental and international development circles. Donkeys are known for their physical resilience in the face of drought and abuse by humans but they can also help women’s resilience in poor communities. Tumme Konton, her husband Sisay and their children live in a tiny settlement called Adankonsole, near the…