If This Rain Can Fall
If This Rain Can Fall, a multi-sensory installation featuring split-screen sound film and other materials collected in the field, is an investigation into depletion of the vast Ogallala Aquifer and the disappearing rivers and creeks of northwestern Kansas. Central to the American imagination, this land of promise has metamorphosed into the scarred and thirsty place we find today. This work explores how multi-generational farming families practice farming past the 98th meridian, where it rarely rains enough to support the kind of water-intensive crop growing that many do. By focusing on conservation-minded High Plains farmers, their adaptive practices, and the deep traces in the landscape, Gill attempts to understand if soil and water are understood as more than just resources to be exploited.
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Projects
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0 Feet Away by Ben McNair -
A Life in the Woods by Sebastian Sommer -
A Place Elsewhere by Anna Frohn Pedersen -
Between Model and Mind by Zhouyi Jiang
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Bleja, Beer and Bombs by Tami Doncic -
Building on the Past by Noah Burrows -
Chronicle of a Summer (of Love...) by Octavia Stubbs -
Circles by Giulia Mattei
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Cross Love by Chao Chang -
Duende by María Fernández-Pello -
The Echo by Monique -
El centro del centro - Centre of the centre by Michael Dieminger
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Entangled Perceptions by Tseren Byambasuren -
extended family by Ramona Helena Sonderergger -
Far From The Tree by Hayley McGovern -
Home and Being by Li, Zhi
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If This Rain Can Fall by Suneeta Rani Gill -
Jai Prema Shanti - Victory to Love and Peace by Lucy Bennetts -
Lines between islands by Siri Linn Brandsøy -
Ogamba Ki? by Alex Tomkins
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PARATOPOS by Elena Adorni -
Producing Authenticity by Hannah Nemer -
The Soap Makers by Katerina Theodorakopoulou -
Still Present by Amelia King