"Currents of Care: Imagining Water Otherwise"

A multimedia group exhibition curated by the students of Fleeting Form Studio

On view December 11th - 20th

Co-Presented by McGill Office of Sustainability, Oceanwise, and Leadership for the Ecozoic

Featuring the work of:

Nina Vroemen (Sculpture)

Lina Choi (Sound)

Erin Robinsong (Poetry)

Uapukun Mestokosho (Film)

Camille Huang (Dance)

Exhibition Statement:

Water holds stories. It carves, accumulates, disappears, returns. It is not only a substance but a pathway—a medium through which movement, memory, and relation are unfolded and made felt. Currents of Care is an interdisciplinary exhibition that asks how we might imagine water otherwise: not only as a resource to be managed, but as a teacher, kin, and co-creator of worlds.

Presented at McGill’s Critical Media Lab, this exhibition moves through art, environmental history, and speculative practice to reflect on waterways as sites of both rupture and regeneration. Artists and research-creators explore the poetics of care in times of ecological crisis, foregrounding the fullness and abundance of water life-worlds amid narratives of scarcity and inanimacy. Through video, installation, sound, and text, Currents of Care invites audiences into imaginative engagements with water that defy linear time and instrumental valuation.

This project explores relation through water––seeping through membranes, water saturates physical, metaphorical, and ontological bounds of life and object. Every border becomes a mixing threshold of connection between beings: shorelines, estuaries, cells, and phases of matter are dynamic in their meeting. In these spaces of encounter, friction, and transformation, we are reminded of our planetary entanglement, our shared finitude, and therefore livenesses. With water as a witness and guide towards alternative modes of living and making in common, Currents of Care reclaims imagination as a method of ecological action.

This is a living exhibition. A space for gathering, reading, drifting, and listening. Rather than offer fixed answers, Currents of Care is a call to feel our way through the watery worlds we already inhabit. It is an invitation to sit with the abundance, precarity, and imaginative depth of water-life—and to ask what it might mean to live and imagine otherwise, with and through water.