We want to alert our readers to the launch of Alphabet City‘s excellent new publication WATER (now available though MIT Press), and this year’s WATER FESTIVAL (see line-up below) which starts October 31 and continues through November 6, 2009.
Water—chemical matrix of life, transportation conduit, industrial feedstock, agricultural necessity—is coming under new pressures. This year Alphabet City considers the current state of this most vital substance, from the mythic to the infrastructural.”
The WATER festival includes HYDROCity–a panel, exhibition, and symposium series about the future of our cities’ relationship to water.
The festival also launches Water, Alphabet City’s 14th anthology, a hardcover, full-colour artbook co-published with The MIT Press.
Festival Events Quicklist
Click below to visit the Alphabet City website for dates, times and details.
- On Designing Water (book-making talk)
- Kevin Yates (exhibition opening)
- Psychodrama: 13 Variations (installation and festival opening party)
- Beyond the Water’s Edge (river walk and workshop)
- Water, Life and Baths (exhibition, readings and panel discussion)
- HYDROCity panel: Water, Cities, Disaster (panel discussion)
- The Building of “WaterpleinenWatersquare”: Jeroen Bodewit (lunchtime talk)
- The Ladies of the Lakes (opera performance and dinner)
- HYDROCity Exhibition (exhibition opening)
- The Wet Cabaret (performances and festival closing party)
- HYDROCity: A Symposium on Hydrology and Urbanism (symposium)
NYC Events Quicklist
- Water Colloquium and Launch (public colloquium and book launch)
- Infrastructure Slam (24-hour design charette)
- Student Exhibition (exhibition)
Visit the MIT Store
Learn more about Circuit Gallery’s collaboration with AbC: Art from the Anthologies
About Alphabet City
Alphabet City is a series of annual hardcover anthologies originating from Toronto, Canada. Each volume in the series addresses a one-word topic of global concern and draws on the diverse perspectives of writers and artists from many cultures and disciplines. Each book is a graphically rich and textually surprising combination of images and texts that critically and imaginatively reinvents the topic at hand.
