Coventry ... England … Britain. On the edge of the Atlantic. Not Europe ... and not-not Europe. Planet earth. Burning up. Somewhere … in this mess of roads, construction site optimism and hyped-up fast-moving tunes, fast food, slow decline, urban wasteland and screen swipe seduction, retail stupor-uber, zero hours and no time left.

urbanflows proposes a hybrid urbanwild ecosystem, highlighting cycles of carbon (in the making of concrete; the burning of fossil fuels; the metabolisms of plants and creatures) and the meshed movements of air, water, mobile phones, machines, and living things.

Commissioned by Sensing the City and presented in September 2019 as a warm-up to the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, urbanflows: entangled in the grain of worlds, becoming was an audience experience that journeyed through the city of Coventry with elements of performance, installation, sound, video, and words scattered throughout everyday city spaces along the way. During the week-long Sensing the City Urban Room exhibition at Herbert Art Gallery, a live document of that piece, now referred to as urbanflows: redux, was performed by a solo performer (Carolyn Deby, Annalise Cowan, Katye Coe).