Immersions: Into the River Cam

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Dive into a multitude of artworks exploring stories told from the water’s eye. Opening up a space for reflection, we ask who does the river belong to, how can it become a space of commons and not of division, and how can we better care for this fluid being? 

Find yourself swimming in Grantchester Meadows in a newly commissioned film by Phoebe Bostock, discover the hidden histories of women’s labour in the city with work by Abi Spendlove or encounter the ecological pollution in Samuel Johnson’s interactive work ‘Entropy’. The exhibition flows between the spaces of Robinson College Chapel and into its vault where Bin Brook runs underneath from the garden and into the River Cam. From poetry, sculpture, photography, interactive installations, painting and print, the River Cam is brought to life in all its complexity, recognising its engagement with colonial, patriarchal and class histories and periods of ecological misuse, but also finding hope in the communities that it draws together today and in changing attitudes and practices.

Cambridge-based artists and those making art around the River Cam are at the heart of this exhibition which brings together town and university.  Through this commingling of different but neighbouring streams we hope to build more bridges between the city's various communities.   

Join us for our programme of events running throughout the exhibition, including a Poetry and Performance Eveningon Thursday 23rd June and In the Room, a music concert on Friday 24th June by Stomping Ground, as well Singing the Installation Workshops with Sue Parlby on Friday 24th and Sunday 26th.

Supported by Robinson College and Cam Valley Forum

After the Opening event, the exhibition is open:
Open 11-5, Thursday and Friday 23rd/24th, 
Open 11-3, Saturday and Sunday 25th/26th. 
Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN