Andrea
Catherine
Steves

Center for Hydrosocial Studies

 
with Rose Linke and Annie Danis

The Center for Hydrosocial Studies is a living archive concerned with the connection between water and people. We observe the capacity of water to consolidate and erode power. We are interested in the collection, measurement, distribution, conservation, and use of water, as well as techniques of introspection, intervention, intuition, imagination, and the impossible. The Center was established in 2015 in collaboration with writer/artist Rose Linke and anthropologist/artist Annie Danis. More at hydrosocial.org.




Images by Ward Long from FLOW:CONTROL, a dinner hosted during the Center's research residency at If/Then Studios which explored the relationship between people, water, custom, law, language and experience. Chef and artist Kim Upstill presented a tasting menu to explore three of the Center's research areas alongside Directors Annie Danis, Rose Linke, and Andrea Steves' water pairings.
Mark

Projects, Current / Recent

Artist Books & Edited Volumes

Collaborations:
FICTILIS (2010-present)

as Artist Project Group (Bernhard Garnicnig, Lukas Heistinger, Andrea Steves, 2020-present)

as Museum of Capitalism (2014-present)
Agnes: unfolding strategies of resistance and joy

anti-nuclear & environmental work
Articles and Podcasts
sound work
some press and interviews:
  1. ︎︎︎100 Works of Art that Defined the Decade (Artnet)
  2. ︎︎︎Building A Museum of Capitalism (NYT)
  3. ︎︎︎What Would A Museum of Capitalism Look Like? (New Yorker)
  4. ︎︎︎Così l’arte contemporanea mette in scena la crisi (Irene Opezzo, La Stampa)
  5. ︎︎︎This New Museum Imagines a World Where Capitalism Is Dead (Sarah Burke for Artsy)
  6. ︎︎︎A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism (Atlas Obscura)
  7. ︎︎︎Which Stories Belong In Public? Monument Lab ReGen Advisory Roundtable
  8. ︎︎︎A View From the Edge of the Earth (interview for The Chart)

in the words of others