ACQUA ALTA 1
2006
(IN OVERLAP 3)
BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
Acqua Alta was the title of the installation Hazewinkel created for the exhibition Overlap 3 at the completion of his three-month residency at the British School at Rome. Inspired by his research of the variously documented history of the flooding of the River Tiber, the contemporary iron mooring rings affixed to its 19th century stone embankments and the ephemeral dwellings of those that live along its banks Acqua Alta was further developed over the following three years into The Acqua Alta Project comprising four site specific installations including photographic, moving image, sculptural elements and a project publication.
This installation comprising seventeen transparent resin mooring rings, 250 metres of rope, broken furniture and a suite of three paired photographs launched the ongoing project which culminated in 2010 with Acqua Alta 4 at the Mission to Seafarers Melbourne.
see Acqua Alta 2 documentation here
see Acqua Alta 3 documentation here
see Acqua Alta 4 documentation here
see the project's photographic elements Domus Sub/Merge here
The Acqua Alta Project is documented in an accompanying publication, which includes images of all project iterations and texts by Geraldine Barlow, Rebecca Coates, Anthony Gardner and Stefania Manna. The individual essays are also available at the Texts page of this website.
read Geraldine Barlow's essay Like the Thread of a River here
read Rebecca Coates' essay The Antique and the Everyday here
read Anthony Gardner's essay Lucciole here
read Stefania Manna's essay FCO-MEL Unspooling here