"How to Carry Water" at Oregon State University

Still from float, HD digital recording of a live performance, 2019

Jefferson Pinder’s float is included in How to Carry Water.

Stirek Gallery at Oregon State University

September 21 - December 21, 2024

Pinder will also give a talk on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at the PRAx - Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts.

How to Carry Water brings together contemporary visual artists and humanities scholars in shared observations and questions about watersheds. In this expanded conversation, the term “watershed” refers not only to ecological structures, but also to the spatial, temporal and cultural entities that catalyze collectivity and life alongside bodies of water. The exhibition considers how the lenses of history, philosophy and creative practice allow for alternative methods of witnessing the human relationship to water.