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became a three-day journey from scoop up into your hands and drink.
sea to source (rather than a lengthy Participants in the project were
walk). On three occasions, groups of requested to create an aesthetic or
eleven extremely diverse pilgrims academic response to their
embarked on “the same” journey, experiences, to be showcased
in which they were offered during a culminating week of public
opportunities to experience and events at year-end. The Tributaries
respond to different kinds of human Project Exhibition Week included an
engagements with water. Pilgrims exhibition opening where works
followed a route from the wide were performed, an art exhibition
open sea (starting at Sardinia Bay), at the university’s Bird Street
along the coastline through the Gallery, A one-day colloquium
industrial zones (the Cape Recife where academic papers were
lighthouse, the waste water presented, and a narratives event,
treatment works, the PE harbour) where poetry was read and stories
and then moving up the poisoned were told. These responses speak
Zwartkops Estuary, towards the quite clearly of the value of
sacred source of the Zwartkops configuring a sea-to-source
River in Groendal Wilderness Area, pilgrimage as a contemporary ritual
where the water is pure enough to in a secular, academic space.
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