Announcing Selected Commissions
Pablo Diserens, Rhine head waters of the, represented by Rehmann Museum in Laufenberg, Switzerland
Diana Duta, Middle Rhine, represented by the University of Antwerp Ecosphere’s Mesodrome, a large-scale river simulation facility
Flurina Mia Häberli, End Rhine, repressented by _V2 Lab for Unstable in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
“Pantha Rhei on the Rhine” focuses on fostering a techno-poetics that meaningfully links scientific data with poetics drawn from art and art history. Pantha Rhei is Heraclitus’ ancient dictum that “everything flows,” summarizing his famous fragment that “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
The production of the commissioned artworks will be supported with scientific input from University of Antwerp’s Ecosphere group and artistic input from Studio Haseeb Ahmed.
River Rhine
The red stars indicate the location of the listening sessions. “Pantha Rhei on the Rhine” brings the scale of the Rhine River, Europe’s third longest, to the scale of the body through a series of artworks. Their dissemination spans the length the length of the river from its headwaters in Switzerland to its exit as the Maas-Rhine Delta in the Netherlands.