Anna Mcleod Water Conversation

ANNA MACLEOD: WATER CONVERSATIONS A survey of works, 2007-2015

Gallery opening hours: Monday to Friday 10am - 5.30pm Saturday 10am - 5pm

Contact: +353 (0)71 965 0828 www.thedock.ie

Admission is free

Photo: Anna Macleod.

Exhibition / Workshops Public Talks / Events In conjunction with ANNA MACLEOD: WATER CONVERSATIONS there will be a series of associated talks and workshops as well as a public information point, talk and lectures in association with INSPIRATIONAL HOMES/GREEN DOOR LEITRIM.

Tuesdays, July 14th, 21st, 28th, 28th & August 4th:

CLIMATE CAMP for young people with Artist Anna Macleod A four week summer camp with exhibiting artist Anna Macleod for 12-14 years. The camp aims to encouraging young people in a fun and creative way to think about and discuss the relationship between humans in different climatic regions of the world.

Saturday, September 5th - PUBLIC TALK:

WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT: Dr. Damien Short Dr Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights, both as a scholar and human rights advocate. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples’ rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is currently researching the human rights impacts of extreme energy processes (e.g. tar sands and fracking - see our designated HRC website: http://extremeenergy.org).

Saturday, September 29th:

GREEN DOOR LEITRIM EVENTS • • • • •

Morning bus tours:10am-1pm Lunch time talk on domestic and farm rainwater harvesting with Owen Leonard:1-2pm Children’s workshop with artist Naomi Draper: 1-3pm Gallery talk with exhibiting artist Anna Macleod: 2-3pm Evening bus tour: 2-5pm

Booking information: www.thedock.ie or 071 9650828

ANNA MACLEOD: WATER CONVERSATIONS A survey of works, 2007-2015

Please join us for the opening preview: FRIDAY, July 3rd, 6pm Exhibition runs from: July 4th to September 12th, 2015.

WATER CONVERSATIONS is the umbrella term for an ongoing series of works by Leitrim-based artist Anna Macleod that addresses water through political, social and cultural lenses. Macleod’s aim has been to build an alternative, global commons map of this finite resource—water—a substance that is at the core of life itself.

Articulated as a series of actions, small sculptures, posters, drawings, sound works, interdisciplinary collaborations, public interventions and site specific works, WATER CONVERSATIONS explores the complex interstices between landscape and geopolitics, science and technology, culture and tradition.

To date projects have been realized in Ghana, West Africa: a variety of locations through Northern India; Colorado, USA; Ireland and the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Alberta Canada and Almería, Spain and in October 2015, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.