Dun Laoghaire - Waterwork Lifelines
\*This work is located at the Kill-o'-the-Grange stream in Kilbogget Park. This are has mixed terrain including concrete, grass, and water. Please be mindful of your surroundings. \*
About the work
ARTIST: Janine Eisenächer.
Originally created for the Oderbruch region of eastern Germany, Janine Eisenächer’s audio walk is inspired by the landscape’s deep connection to water. Shaped by centuries of flooding, drainage and human intervention, the Oderbruch became the basis for a work that gives presence to waterways that are essential to life yet often remain unseen or overlooked.
For its presentation in Kilbogget Park, the work is re-situated in relation to the Kill o’ the Grange River and the network of flows, channels, wetlands and drainage systems that have contributed to the formation of this landscape over time. Like the Oderbruch, this environment reflects an ongoing negotiation between water and land, visibility and concealment, ecology and human habitation.
Lifelines invites listeners to attune themselves to these living water systems and to consider their presence beneath and alongside the visible landscape. It focuses on the subtle activity of water as a life-giving force; one that connects habitats, histories and communities, and whose significance often becomes most apparent during moments of environmental change.
The audio walk is a composition created from field recordings originally gathered in the Oderbruch, carrying the sonic traces of that landscape into a new dialogue with the waterways of Kilbogget Park.
Info:
Field recordings were made of the Wriezener Alte Oder in Bad Freienwalde/ Neutornow, Oderberg and Hohensaaten, of the Stille Oder in Bad Freienwalde/ Neutornow and Schiffmühle, of the Stadtgraben in Oderberg, of the Altmädewitzer Hauptgraben in Bad Freienwalde/ Schiffmühle, and of the Landgraben in Bad Freienwalde.
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