"Water,logged" is a 'film-story'; a filmic collaboration with a piece of literature.
Who gets access to water? Who gets to make 'political' art? The aural/textual story
follows two fictional members of the band Pussy Riot as they visit an art exhibition
in Edinburgh. While studying the neatly-displayed jars of water, the women consider
the implications of the art in front of them, and of their own creations. The film
adaptation mixes voice-over with footage of water sources from Glasgow and the west
of Scotland, filmed in autumn 2020 by queer disabled artists. "Water,logged" interrogates
connectivity, the deceptive concept of universality, white supremacy, physical access
to (clean) water as a source of both pleasure and necessity, the plausibility of true
collectivity across power imbalances, and the stickiness of who gets to make 'political'
art in a capitalist and classed world.
A visual description of the images in this film-story is available as text and audio
at http://www.blissfultimes.ca/waterlogged.
Multimedia text version: https://locked-world.boptheatre.co.uk...
Download full transcript: https://locked-world.boptheatre.co.uk...
YouTube. “Water,Logged by Sandra Alland (Captioned),” November 20, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LrHzOdwlw.