"The Fall of Water" (Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge, 2007) | MyNews | Seneca Students

In "The Fall of Water", a secular reworking of Pieter Brueghel’s painting "The Fall of the Rebel Angels", a Andean peasant woman, representing grassroots activism and the fight against water privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia, replaces Brueghel’s St. Michael in beating down the bourgeois elite—the banksters, industrial polluters, politicians and eco-exploiters--who would privatize water rights and produce environmental disaster: Bechtel, Thames Water, and the World Bank to name a few. In the apocalyptic vision of artist/activists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, the self-serving arrogance of the Rupert Murdochs of this world will not be punished by divine agency but rather by the real rebel angels-- organized labour and other world-wide activists--taking direct political action.