DRINK THE RIVER offers a critical (playful) reimagination of the River Eden in Cumbria. Moving between the worlds of river and human body, porosity between these watery bodies is emphasised and the human-river-sewage cycle is explored as the player navigates these contested spaces. The game seeks to highlight the realities of sewage pollution into the river (the Eden is the 10th most polluted river in the UK), whilst offering a hopeful reimagination redrawing boundaries between ourselves and the leaky river that surrounds us.
Rosa Prosser is an artist filmmaker from the Lake District, UK. Her practice seeks to explore human//more-than-human encounters and entanglements through the methodology of “sensory ecological ethnography”, a site-specific and embodied approach towards research, communicated predominantly through the medium of moving image. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2021 with a BA in the History and Philosophy of Science, going on to undertake an MFA in Creative Documentary by Practice within UCL’s Public Anthropology department.
Christopher Bonk is an illustrator, animator and game developer from Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Oscillating between pixels and paper, he draws, models, animates and codes with a favel for distinctive design, quirky characters and unusual storytelling.
