Hydrographies: Ancestors, Waters, Infrastructures reads rivers, oceans, wetlands and aquifers as contested terrain—sites where struggles over land, sovereignty and survival are played out.
About This Book
Edited by curator Silvia Franceschini, this compact volume grows out of the Onomatopee exhibition of the same name, the second in the Eindhoven institution's five-year Systems and Territories program. Through essays, conversations and artists' contributions, it follows water as border, weapon, resource and witness: from colonial dams and oil infrastructure to the drowned histories of displaced communities. Where geography writes the earth, the book proposes hydrography as a more fluid way of mapping—one that can trace shared struggles and solidarities across borders.
Key Features
- Essays, conversations and artistic contributions drawn from visual art and moving-image practice
- Contributors include Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Ifor Duncan, Alia Farid, Bridget Guarasci, Adelita Husni Bey, Amal Khalaf, Ailton Krenak, Laura Huertas Millán, Naeem Mohaiemen and Tanzim Wahab
- Graphic design by Studio Kai Udema
- Accompanies the Hydrographies exhibition at Onomatopee, Eindhoven
What You'll Discover
- How hydroelectric, extractive and colonial infrastructures reshape landscapes and the communities that depend on them
- Water as a political instrument, from conflict zones to the control of hydrological systems
- Ancestral and Indigenous knowledges of rivers and wetlands, including the thinking of Ailton Krenak
- Ecological grief, submerged histories and the cinematic imagination of riverscapes
About the Author
Silvia Franceschini is a curator and researcher whose work examines the intersections of art, ecology and geopolitics. She curated the Hydrographies exhibition at Onomatopee and edited this accompanying publication.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 110 × 184 mm
- Pages: 232
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493382268
- Publisher: Onomatopee
Perfect For: Landscape architects, urbanists, artists and researchers working on water, infrastructure, extraction and the politics of territory.