Bodies in Water is brought you by greenandowens who are Katheryn Owens and Chris Green, two artists / researchers based in Manchester, UK. The exhibition explores swimming, water and mythology, it’s the first stage of a research project looking at their relationship to water.

In 2023, Katheryn & Chris completed a fully collaborative PhD at the University of Plymouth, using an expanded definition of performance writing to understand autoethnographic experiences of millennial precarity, with friendship as a method. Following this, they are exploring human-water relationships: the body and writing, swimming, their bodies as made of water, access to water and leisure, and how they work with water. While still in its early stages, they intend for this work to take an interdisciplinary practice-research approach, using performance, sound, text and sculpture as artistic outputs.

They maintain an interest in understanding through doing, in friendship as a means of forming shared understandings,…