'Abyssal Seeker' will be shown at 23rd Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus, opening on 12 March 2022 @biennalesydney @nas_au directed by José Roca @joseroca1962 thks so much to @talialinz Talia Linz, @anna.davis.pix Anna Davis, @bellermorgan Belle Morgan, Tim Barker, Cherie Schweitzer, Gotaro Uematsu and everyone who worked so hard in this 🙏🙏🙏 Originally commissioned by @seventeengallery @david_hoyland ++ @victoriaaldin @yumaburgess (film scenography/creatures) @33emybw (sound design) @theoreevesevison (essay) @matthewt_lly (screen/set build) @lucasliccini (publication graphic design) raph____ael (graphics) #abyssalseeker Generously supported by Arts Council England @aceagrams and British Council @britisharts Rivers, wetlands and other salt and freshwater ecosystems feature in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022), titled rīvus, as dynamic living systems with varying degrees of political agency. Indigenous knowledges have long understood non-human entities as living ancestral beings with a right to life that must be protected. But only recently have animals, plants, mountains and bodies of water been granted legal personhood. If we can recognise them as individual beings, what might they say? rīvus invites several aqueous beings into a dialogue with artists, architects, designers, scientists, and communities, entangling multiple voices and other modes of communication to ask unlikely questions: Can a river sue us over psychoactive sewage? Will oysters grow teeth in aquatic revenge? What do the eels think? Are the swamp oracles speaking in tongues? Do algae reminisce about the days of primordial soup? Are waves the ocean’s desire? Can a waterfall refuse gravity? Considering the water ecology’s perspective entails a fundamental shift in understanding our relationship with the rest of the natural world as a porous chronicle of interwoven fates.