Part of Field Lines, presented with the Guardian

Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met.’
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Welcome to a workshop held at the thresholds of the day. We meet once at sunrise and once at sunset. In these edges, we gather to share water stories and to meet as leaky vessels. As the light shifts, we consider the movement of water through ourselves, each other and our community on Dharug and Gundungurra Country.

Departing from collected rainwater, we sit with the offerings that the rain carries and we contemplate the stories, bodies and places it has visited. Drawing from Ursula K. Le Guin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, amongst other texts, we attend to the vessel as leaky technology, something that holds, dispells and gathers.

Join us to contemplate the planetary water cycle, moving through rain, evaporation, condensation and return. This is a Hydrocene, the Age of Water, workshop. Staying with the saturated, the porous, the planetary.

Image credit: Kati Roover