March - April 2023
Chisenhale Studios, London
Exhibition & performance programme
'Pipe Dreams' reimagined the canal, how from being prevalent vessels scattering the city, leaked into our domestic interiors, and physically and metaphorically into our internal bodies of water. 7 artists – Joana Viveiros, Laure Vigna, Lena Hannigan, Lucy Clout, Siin Lee, Qingqing Liu and zack mennell - were invited to present a series of new or readapted installations, performances and films, centring on their visceral connections with animate waterbodies and constituents of living fluids in the exploration of belonging and societal normality. The inspiration came from the ‘pipe dream’ of the neighbouring canal – the unrealised business projects of the Hertford Union Canal. While laden with deposits and discharges, within and through the canal has seen organisms fermented and liveliness regenerated. The temporality and legacy of time-based mediums were highlighted to mirror how the ephemeral passing of fluids leaves traces.This programme was co-curated with Stephanie Chung.