The Line is delighted to partner with CREATURE (Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) and Arup Phase 2 in organising a free symposium which will draw together artists, water specialists and researchers to explore how site-specific art and art outdoors responds to water. East London's increasing vulnerability to flash flooding and water pollution will be a starting point for a discussion on how art, the socio-political and the ecological are intertwined.

This event will include an exclusive screening of a new film commission by artist Helen Cammock. The film documents Cammock's new site-specific spoken word and sung performance, The Lay Shaft Drive is Down, at the House Mill, Bromley-by-Bow on 17th September, imagined on the occasion of The Line's exhibition, Tributaries. Taking the House Mill as its starting container, The Lay Shaft Drive is Down considers mills in relation to water, to industry, to food, to hardship and nurture: the tie to the colonial relationships that bind both people and production through contentious, often violent, yet sometimes radical histories. Tributaries has been realised in partnership with Arup Phase 2 and is funded by Arts Council England and Cockayne - Grants for the Arts.

Tributaries has been realised in partnership with Arup Phase 2 and is funded by Arts Council England and Cockayne - Grants for the Arts.

Speakers:

• Joseph Cook: anthropologist, creative practitioner, and boater based at University College London
• Sonia Levy: London-based artist and 2022 recipient of the S+T+ARTS4Water's "The Future of High Waters" residency hosted by TBA21 Lison
• Sabrina Musset: French-Brazilian visual artist, curator and the co-founder of The Collective Makers
• Martin Shouler: London Water Leader at international engineering and technical consultancy Arup

Event presented by Dr Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Deputy Director of CREATURE and Trustee of The Line