01: FALLING INTO TIME (2018)

Performance and vocal interventions

Performative, moving light sculpture. Series of site-specific, vocal polyphonic performances and spatial sound interventions.

Collaborators:

Sebastian Blue Pin, Daniel James Ross, Voces Castrum singers.

Location:

Fort Process Festival, Newhaven Fort, Newhaven, UK

02: SPACES BETWEEN (2018)

A participative, live, walking artwork for the landscape

Part sculptural piece, part collectively arranged exhibition, part game to keep the kids entertained – objects of different lengths are taken for a walk.

A reflection on the physical walking distances between children and adults and how these change as they grow up, the piece looks at what happens when two people try and work together. Introducing physical objects of different lengths, it playfully investigates the spaces that exist between people, exploring relationships and how physical distances between bodies are experienced as either ‘comfortable’ or ‘awkward’, ‘playful’ or ‘annoying’ whilst walking together – hopefully in the same direction!

The piece probes the connections and sometimes distances that evolve between people over time and how these change or transform as obstacles are encountered and negotiated.

“It was funny how normal the objects became after a time.” – PARTICIPANT

Location:

Participative event for parents/carers and their children, Brighton, UK

03: UNDERTOW (2006)

Site-specific, live-video, commissioned public artwork

CCTV cameras installed along the river bank stream continuous, live images into the Library, 24 hours a day, quietly keeping watch of the river’s surface. The cameras capture a site of ‘absence’, observing and transmitting transitory changes occurring as a result of weather, rainfall, shifting light and time of day.

The captured section of river is located at the site of a ‘Ducking/Cucking Stool’, reportedly used to duck suspected witches and punish ‘scolds’ – a historical term often used to describe women accused of talking back to their husbands, or inciting or agitating against the public peace.

Location:

A Canterbury City Council Commission for Beaney Museum & Library, Canterbury, UK

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04: ‘SONGS OF THE EDGE’ – RE-IMAGINE EUROPE RESIDENCY (2019)

Collaborative Residency developing immersive installation, focussing on issues of European Migration

‘SONGS OF THE EDGE’ uses sound to explore immigration, borders and architecture. The aim was to reflect on the boundary of Europe and how this is experienced in the current political climate. 


We worked with Immigration Detention Centres and locations where issues of migration are felt acutely, investigating elements of political architecture through sound and physical interaction, particularly approaching sound recording as a form of ‘bearing witness’.

Utilising experimental recording techniques and sonification of migration-related data, we developed an immersive sound environment and early-stage interactive structures as tools 
for collaborative co-creation, inspiring political agency through physical engagement.

Location:
Lighthouse, Brighton, UK | Funded by
 Creative Europe

Collaborators:
Jeph Vanger: Sound Artist/Designer

Development:
The project is being developed to include interaction-driven visual filmic-sequences, triggered via sensor data, via the physical movement of gate structures.