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.
V2_ Lab for Unstable Media provides decades of experience pioneering experimental media art production and presentation. They will advise on archiving and public engagement strategies as well as host one of the listening sessions.
Museum Rehmann grows from Swiss sculptor Irwin Rehmann’s estate and elaborates on material approaches to art making. Chief curator Michael Hiltbrunner situates “Pantha Rhei on the Rhine” adjacent to his curatorial focus on future technologies and energy production with three of its own commissioned works.
Our scientific partner is the University of Antwerp’s Ecosphere research group run by Professor Ronny Blust. Our collaboration focuses on the Mesodrome facility, a 1000 m2 aquatic laboratory dedicated to the study complex environmental effects like pollution and global warming have on rivers. The expertise and access to facilities contribute to the transdisciplinary character of this project and instruct the sensing instruments for the “Library of the River” and to the invited artists. Ahmed previous collaborated with Ecosphere to research pharmaceutical pollution in water.
Studio Haseeb Ahmed has extensive experiences organizing transdisciplinary artistic research projects. While headed by Haseeb Ahmed, the consortium includes a wide network of specialists in fields ranging from genetics, to water treatment, and fluid dynamics. While coordinating this project, Studio Haseeb Ahmed works with methodologies from the hard sciences to produce art installations, symposia, films, essays, and workshops.
This project is funded by the partners mentioned above and Pro Helvetia Synergies Grant. Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council supports and disseminates Swiss arts and culture. As the Swiss Confederation’s cultural promotion institution, it supports high-quality projects with a focus on diversity. In the field of design, the foundation promotes contemporary Swiss design at all stages of the process, from concept to market. With its initiative Design Switzerland, it aims to help emerging Swiss studios gain visibility, build professional networks and connect with the national and international markets.