Tidal Flushing: A Conversation with Aviva Rahmani

Tidal Flush­ing address­es the impli­ca­tions of the fact that even if every­one were to stop all car­bon emit­ting activ­i­ties today, sea lev­els will con­tin­ue to rise for thou­sands of years, swal­low­ing enor­mous amounts of urban infra­struc­ture and cre­at­ing forced migra­tions for bil­lions of peo­ple, often under trau­mat­ic cir­cum­stances, even as host coun­tries attempt to shut the doors on des­per­a­tion. The envi­ron­men­tal dynam­ics of tidal flush­ing threat­ens one third of human­i­ty liv­ing near marine coasts. With­out mit­i­ga­tion, the effects will be that much more pow­er­ful, chaot­ic, and irremediable.

Join Avi­va Rah­mani at Swale on June 7 for a con­ver­sa­tion that cov­ers all this and more.

Swale is one of the 2026 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.