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WALBROOK by Amy Sharrocks
Friday 19 June, 2pm-5pm
Highbury & Islington Underground (starting point)
Free event. Booking required.
Box Office: 020 7650 2350 (Monday-Friday 1-6pm)
Book online at http://www.artsadmin.co.uk
If there were water…
If there were only water amongst the rock…
If there were the sound of water only
- TS Eliot, The Wasteland
Come and trace the course of the buried Walbrook River from its source in Islington to its mouth at the River Thames. A large public walk, WALBROOK aims to re-create one of London’s oldest rivers by thronging the pavements with people. Participants are asked to wear blue, and will be loosely tied together by the waist for the duration of the walk.
The Walbrook River has been lost for over 5 centuries. With the help of a dowser, artist Amy Sharrocks has re-mapped the river, and in collaboration with a crowd of Londoners she is attempting to reclaim this great body of water, and prompt a different understanding of our landscape.
Tracing a memory of water through built up London streets, WALBROOK will make its way through the heart of the City, and across the Bank of England itself.
If there were only water amongst the rock...
“Strangely exhilarating... London’s hidden rivers, they never really disappear.”
Time Out
The walk is free and open to all. Participants are asked to wear blue.
Amy Sharrocks’ work is about participation and journeys. She has crossed and re-crossed London with many meandering, stumbling water works. Walbrook is the second large public artwork from London is a River City, a series of artworks by Amy Sharrocks about Londoners and water.
On Amy Sharrocks’ SWIM (2007):
“The cosmic oddness of SWIM... an unrepeatable event”
The Independent
“An epic watery undertaking”
Time Out
For more information please visit www.londonisarivercity.com
http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/event.php?id=664
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