Together with artists in residence Raymond Gemayel, Bahaleen Collective (Aya Abseiso & Ahmed Salameh) & Youssef el Idrissi as well as Maria Howard, Natasha Ruwona and Saoirse Amira Anis, during our research programme we spent time with independent researcher and artist Adebusola Ramsay, looking at and walking along the Clyde channel, learning about it’s entanglement with slave trade and colonial expansions, looking at the traces of commodities, people and wealth mobilised through the river’s waters.

Intertwined with reading groups and movie nights, our programme explored and interrogated the techniques of dowsing and water divination with Grahame Gardner, while digging into CCA archives with its director Francis McKee.

Punctuated by moments sharing food, research, films and music, together with artists in residence Raymond Gemayel, Bahaleen Collective (Aya Abseiso & Ahmed Salameh) & Youssef el Idrissi as well as Maria Howard, Natasha Ruwona and Saoirse Amira Anis, part of our research programme led us to walk along the waters of the Solway estuary with professor and writer David Borthwick, who invited us to embrace it in its ‘haecceity’: as a specific and uniquely shared moment to be together, with Solway’s contextual hydrosocial cycle.

We also spent time with Cooking Sections & Sakiya’s project “In the Eddy of the Stream” in Edinburgh, and gathered in Cardiff with the artists and researchers from Call the Waves.

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Confluence is a programme curated by Alaya Ang, Francesca Masoero and Shayma Nader.

Hosted by CCA Glasgow and LE 18 Marrakech, it is supported by the British Council.

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