Launching our online publication

The event also marked the launch of our online platform, which documents the Rhine River journey so far and serves as a living archive for current and future developments. This evolving online space gathers articles, field notes, poetic reflections, and methods that engage the Rhine as an entangled field of human and more-than-human agencies, resistances, and possibilities.

About the programme

In a circular, stage-free setting, our moderator Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder guided an open discussion. Topics were guided by our guests, who joined with their specific expertise and informally shared their perspectives. The event visitors were equally invited to share memories of when the Rhine began to matter in their lives. In a weaving of words, we hope to have related all these stories to broader social, economic, and ecological currents. The dialogue was mediated by a short film by artist Maud van den Beuken and Rhine River field recordings by sound artist Kristina Mau Hansen.

Together, we asked which stories of the Rhine are amplified and which remain in the background, how these narratives distribute responsibility and care, and what they make imaginable for the river’s futures. Everyone present was invited to see themselves as co-authors in the ongoing, multi-voiced origin stories of the Rhine and join our river-relations journey.

Schedule

18.00-18.30 Walk-in

18.30-18.40 Welcome by Alice Smits & Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder

18.40-18.55 Performance by Kristina Mau Hansen

18.55-19.35 DIALOGUE I w/ Xandra van der Eijk, Anne Jesuina, Anneke van Veen

19.35-19.50 Screening of Carrying the River by Maud van den Beuken

19.50-20.30 DIALOGUE II w/ Maud van den Beuken, Jelmer Teunissen, Gerard Litjens

20.30-21.30 End of programme