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