A Simultaneous Agreement

A Simultaneous Agreement is Stanley Picker Fellow FRAUD’s (Audrey Samson and Francisco Gallardo) latest body of work which centres on the circulation of nutrients and infrastructures permeating the current UK water crisis. Examining the intimacy between the fertiliser mine and the treatment plant, the project asks, when minerals move across the earth what do they bring with them?

There are 4,929 bodies of water in England, all of which are currently deemed unfit for both human and more-than-human life. Like most English rivers, the Hogsmill, which flows either side of the Stanley Picker Gallery, contains dangerous levels of chemical substances stemming from agricultural run-off and sewage overflow. Water­­ – the stuff of life – now also harbours unevenly distributed violence. Through art- and design-based approaches rooted in spatial advocacy, the project aims to unravel the complexity of corporate, financial and governmental interests that have led to wide-scale water degradation.