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Featured Rivers essays

Clare BrittonAlexandra Crosby Juan Francisco Salazaron a glossary of water Felicity Castagnaon Parramatta River Clare BrittonAlexandra Crosby Juan Francisco Salazaron a glossary of water Felicity Castagnaon Parramatta River

Essay: Clare BrittonAlexandra Crosby
a moving image from colour photographs showing water rushing through a paved and concrete catchment within a suburban area next to a park.

Walking Wolli Creek

In this iterative writing and walking project, we have been making space to ask questions of each other about caring for Country, to share conversations about climate change, and to remind ourselves of the love that keeps us present.

Oct. 2022 • Place • Rivers • Sydney
rīvus Essay: Juan Francisco Salazaron a glossary of water

The Impossible Mixtape

A Glossary of Water: Music and Sounds for rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney I produced my first cassette mixtape…

Mar. 2022 • Rivers • rīvus
rīvus Essay: Felicity Castagnaon Parramatta River

The Loop

This part of the Parramatta River where I walk is the western end, the part where it turns shallow and serpentine. This is not the river of historical islands and weekend sailing and houses with water views; that exists where the river breaks into the harbour further east. This is the river of narrow channels and mudflats and mangroves; of sex clubs and factories and unmarked burial grounds; of lunatics and God and disappearing buildings.

Mar. 2022 • Rivers • rīvus
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Essay: Clare BrittonAlexandra Crosby
a moving image from colour photographs showing water rushing through a paved and concrete catchment within a suburban area next to a park.

Walking Wolli Creek

In this iterative writing and walking project, we have been making space to ask questions of each other about caring for Country, to share conversations about climate change, and to remind ourselves of the love that keeps us present.

Oct. 2022 • Place • Rivers • Sydney
rīvus Essay: Juan Francisco Salazaron a glossary of water

The Impossible Mixtape

A Glossary of Water: Music and Sounds for rīvus, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney I produced my first cassette mixtape…

Mar. 2022 • Rivers • rīvus
rīvus Essay: Felicity Castagnaon Parramatta River

The Loop

This part of the Parramatta River where I walk is the western end, the part where it turns shallow and serpentine. This is not the river of historical islands and weekend sailing and houses with water views; that exists where the river breaks into the harbour further east. This is the river of narrow channels and mudflats and mangroves; of sex clubs and factories and unmarked burial grounds; of lunatics and God and disappearing buildings.

Mar. 2022 • Rivers • rīvus

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