Aesthetic Criticism

Fig. 1. 'The book seems like a kind of almanac pertaining to certain historical phenomena,' from Tim Harrington and Robert Sullivan, Gowanus Redux, 7/17/2012.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Re-imagining the River: The Transformation of New York’s Waterways in Marie Lorenz’s Tide and Current Taxi.

For more than ten years, artist Marie Lorenz has been creating a work of art called the Tide and Current Taxi. For this project, Lorenz transports one to four passengers along the myriad waterways of New York City (and occasionally other destinations) in a small boat made by the artist.

Ursula Biemann, video still from Deep Weather (2013). Aerial shot of the Northern Alberta oil sands. Courtesy of the artist.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Liquid Economies, Networks of the Anthropocene

A constant flow of watery images streams through our newsfeeds almost daily. Videos, infographics, animations, flow charts, and various other forms of visual communication tell us that water is either in excess or retreat, revealing that we have too much or too little.

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Seth Eastman, Distant View of Fort Snelling, 1847-49. Watercolor.

IntroductionJuly 28, 2016

Guest Editors’ Introduction to Issue Three

Water is a slippery subject: its visual and material properties spur intellectual inquiry and spiritual reverie; its fluctuating form repels categorization and confounds claims of ownership as it crosses property lines and national borders; and river and ocean currents facilitate commercial exchange along with environmental exploitation.

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Detail of 'Otokaheya' (In the Beginning), quilted fabric, Gwen Westerman, artist. Image courtesy of the artist.

FeatureJuly 28, 2016

Depicting the Power of Water in Art and Poetry

Open Rivers guest editors Nenette Luarca-Shoaf and Laura Turner Igoe contacted Gwen Westerman, professor, visual artist, and an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate.

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Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 27 | Prospect

Reading these articles, I returned to the idea that these authors are offering us the prospect of seeing the conditions of our environment a...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

Rivers as Creative Ecologies

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson. We explore how activists, artists, scholars, and rivers might co-create riverine engagements that interrupt the extractive capitalist, heteropatriarchal,...

By Sigma Colón and Juli Clarkson

Feature (Peer Review)

Big Stone Lake Stories: Crossing Borders

By Jonee Kulman Brigham. Earth Systems Journey is foremost a form of participatory public art and secondly an environmental education curriculum model. Big Stone...

By Jonee Kulman Brigham

Feature

Fluid Impressions: Connecting Data and Storytelling in Iowa’s Watersheds

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge. As we contend with the environmental degradation...

By Eric Gidal, Munachim Amah, Javier Espinosa, Richard Frailing, Ellen Oliver, Clara Reynen, and Kaden St Onge

Geographies

Narmada Parikrama

By Vivek Ji. The waters of the Narmada River flow as though carrying a divine grace, ancient wisdom, and a sense of spirituality. This...

By Vivek Ji

In Review

All We Can Save

By Marceleen Mosher. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine...

By Marceleen Mosher

Perspectives

From Symbol of Wisdom to Inducer of Anxiety: The Ganga Dichotomy

By Saloni Shokeen. The River Ganga, arising from the Western Himalayas and flowing through India and Bangladesh, covers an immense distance of 2,525 kilometers...

By Saloni Shokeen

Primary Sources

Owámniyomni: Still We Gather

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager. Mni Wičoni. Water is life. For many of us, water truly is synonymous with life—and not...

By Kachina Yeager, Shelley Buck, and Sage Yeager

Teaching and Practice

Do You Know Where You Are?

By Laura Rockhold. Over recent years I have been on a journey, one that has deepened my understanding of, and engagement with, the Indigenous...

By Laura Rockhold

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