AQUATIC RESOLUTIONS

Aquatic Resolutions is a long-term investigation into the accumulation of peat; the dispossession of land and dislocation of peat, elements, and people; and the anthropogenic (re)accumulation of things. It is an exploration into the ordered division of water from land, and resistances to that division, as well as the potentiality in peat-forming wetlands, both for their capacities and provocations. It asks: What forms of resolution-not a simplification but instead a melting or loosening in the spirit of the root verb solvere-, might we attend to, not as a return to a past (from re meaning "back") but as a commitment to decolonial and queer futures?... Aquatic Resolutions began as a dissertation project for the Centre for Research Architecture at the University of London, Goldsmiths and remains an ongoing area of research into what we can learn from peat-forming wetlands, materially and conceptually.