Book Launch – Where the river is
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04.02.2024
Maud van den Beuken
📋 Programme
14:30 - Gathering at Limestone Books, with a welcoming tea
14:45 - Walk to the Maas river, for a small exercise by Maud van den Beuken
15:30 - Arrival back at Limestone Books
15:40 - Lecture performance by Maud van den Beuken narrating the book ‘TITLES Where the river is’, guided with texts and readings by Roy Frings - river morphologist, Rijkswaterstaat
16:30 - Discussion with Maud & Roy about today’s needs and imaginaries in water management
During this event, artist and field worker Maud van den Beuken explores today's definitions of the Maas river and its water management, while narrating her new book “TITLES Where the river is” in a lecture performance, guided by readings and insights of Roy Frings, River Morphologist at Rijkswaterstaat (Ministry of Water Management). Together they reflect on the current water management system that aims to keep the Maas within its marked banks, and seek to give voice to the river by using both their artistic and scientific toolsets.
‘TITLES Where the river is’ archives and narrates Maud’s notes, sketches, preparations, registrations and thought experiments, which have sedimented over one year. During this time, she did an 11-month residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.