WWWADING is a solo exhibition led by artist & boater Aisha Mirza, telling queer, racialised & disabled boaters’ off-grid canal stories!
We’re cruising, surfing, hoping we don’t freeze. We’re World Wide Wading. Pushing on, downstreaming, off-grid, at the mouth of the river, where we live.
The exhibition is an analogue photography project, performance essay, oral history archive, and interspecies sound work sharing the stories of queer, racialised and disabled people, spirits, and other creatures living and playing off-grid on boats across London’s canal network (2020–present).
This is part memoir, part poem, part diasporic residue, part “mental health” in the apocalypse, part investigation: of the marsh as post-capitalist survival technology, the river as trans futurity, the canal as waterlogged footprint of colonisation, and the boat as go-bag, as radical pursuit of pleasure.
May pearls lie within.
May they set us all free.
WWWADING Exhibition Programme:
09 October
Opening Event with Live Performance
Floating Garden
6:30 - 9:30 p.m
Tickets are are free but limited! Book you place.
11 October
Towpath Taiji with Bones Tan Jones
Floating Garden
2:00 - 4:00 p.m
Ticket start at £6.13. Get tickets.
12 October — SOLD OUT!
Clay Plates Making & Decorating with Foraged Rust
Floating Garden
2:00 - 4:30 p.m
Tickets start at £11.55. Learn more.
About the Artist:
Aisha Mirza is a writer, artist, musician, and community organizer living on a boat in East London. They use photo, text, sound, and sculpture to make work about madness as truth, anticapitalist technologies, and how to hold hands into the trans apocalypse. They are the creator of misery, a mental health arts community, decolonial nature programme, grief space, and sober club night which centers healing for queer and trans people of the Global Majority.
WWWADING is presented by Canal Dream CIC in collaboration with Global Generation, with funding from Unlimited. For more information about the artist or exhibition check out the event page.