Thirst and Quenching Salon

Showcasing new and rendered artworks by six noted artists – A+J Art+Design/ Ann Hirsch and Jeremy Angier, Caitlin & Misha, Heather Kapplow, Nathaniel Price, Nancy Selvage and Ros Zimmermann – the exhibit probes our complicated relationship with water. It looks deeply into how climate warming is impacting each of us and invites us to consider: how are our watery bodies registering and responding to these shifts?

The Thirst and Quenching Salon offers a program of musical compositions and poetry that explore these aqueous quotidian needs and deeper longings. Drawn from diverse experimental traditions, the musical pieces vividly evoke the element of water in an array of states and sonic manifestations. Containing notated and open-ended elements, the works reflect the unpredictability of water’s meandering ways. While noted poets Dara Barrois/Dixon and Ros Zimmermann\’s verse and experiments with sound render palpable the perpetual process of change in and around us, the yearning for connection, and the debt we owe to the world’s continuing beauty.

Compositions

Kati Agócs – Thirst and Quenching

Marcos Balter – Evens

Julien Malaussena – 8 Mins after Boiling

Improvisations incorporating machines, drawing inspiration from the Waterworks Museum

Musicians

Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, flute

Diane Heffner, clarinet

Aliana de la Guardia, voice

Robert Schulz, percussion

Lilit Hartunian, violin

The salon is made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Newton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency; and the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Many thanks to the Waterworks Museum for their collaboration in presenting this program.