Join Liverpool Hope University for a free symposium. Diverse voices from arts, academia, and local communities will come together to imagine new ways of understanding, protecting, and celebrating our waterways.
The symposium will highlight several projects including the The Ecological Citizen's Project, which champions technologically appropriate interventions to nurture positive climate action.
Central to discussions on the day will be the Flow. Walk. Drag art-science-activism collaboration, led by Dr Annalaura Alifuoco with Natalie Beveridge, Hwa Young Jung, Rachel Seoighe, and Trude Sundberg. Flow.Walk.Drag combines drag performance with microbiology to illuminate hidden water histories.
The symposium will also address key themes in our current exhibition, The Plant that Stowed Away and explore how artistic expression can serve as a catalyst for environmental awareness and social change.
Dr. Annalaura Alifuoco
Dr. Annalaura Alifuoco is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Performance Studies, leading interdisciplinary work on ecology and performance.
Hwa Young Jung
Hwa Young Jung is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in collaborative projects and games for social change.
Brendan Curtis
Brendan Curtis is a Liverpool based artist, producer, writer and chef. Often working in collaboration with local communities, his practice employs improvisation, drag, humour and shared eating. He has produced work for Heart of Glass, Tate Liverpool, Homotopia & DADAFEST. He co-produces Queer Bodies Poetry Collective and Eat Me (a local drag dinner cabaret) and is currently researching secular grief rituals, building a tower of babel out of extinct gay bars and preparing to publish his first poetry collection.