Loom, practice for cultural transformation, has been developing their artistic research project Rhine River Rehearsal – reimagining a river with the Art & Spatial Praxis research group. Next to the audio tour Leaky Turns , they made the publication Rhine River Rehearsal.
Over the past year, Loom followed the Rhine — walking its floodplains, crossing its meanders, tracing its industrial edges — to explore how we might live with water in an age of climate crisis. The river became our guide, test site, and mirror, revealing not only its own shifting currents but also how land, water, people, and stories are deeply entangled.
The publication Loom made, gathers five distinct perspectives — The Ubiquitous, Unruly, Resounding, Regenerative, and Embodied River — in a confluence of essays, images, field notes, and encounters. Together, they form a rehearsal: a collective exercise in reimagining the river beyond control and containment, towards fluid, more-than-human futures.
From walking flooded islands and abandoned brickworks to listening at open-pit mines and queering the river’s myths, Rhine River Rehearsal invites you to drift between stories, sediments, and timescales.
Rhine River Rehearsal is out now. You can ask for a download of the PDF or buy a copy for €15 via info@loom.ooo
The publication Loom made, gathers five distinct perspectives — The Ubiquitous, Unruly, Resounding, Regenerative, and Embodied River — in a confluence of essays, images, field notes, and encounters. Together, they form a rehearsal: a collective exercise in reimagining the river beyond control and containment, towards fluid, more-than-human futures.
From walking flooded islands and abandoned brickworks to listening at open-pit mines and queering the river’s myths, Rhine River Rehearsal invites you to drift between stories, sediments, and timescales.
Rhine River Rehearsal is out now. You can ask for a download of the PDF or buy a copy for €15 via info@loom.ooo
Editors: Michiel van Iersel, René Boer, Katía Truijen, Mark Minkjan, Radna Rumping
Guest reflections: Dirk Sijmons and Zahra Malkani
Photography and visual material: Loom, unless otherwise credited
Proofreading: Inte Gloerich and gervaise alexis savvias
Graphic design: Karoline Świeżyński
Printing and binding: Drukkerij Kaboem en Binderij Hennink, Amsterdam.
Published by Loom – practice for cultural transformation
What becomes of water when we look at it through the lens of different artists and researchers? And how might it assist us in looking at the world differently? Seven practitioners individually welcome us to a water-related place in Amsterdam, and explain what this place tells us about water when we listen, look, and think carefully. Each interview is preceded by a listening exercise, guided by the voice of the interviewee; intimately connected to their chosen location. These recordings can be experienced onsite, or wherever you find yourself, with a moment to spare.
