Helen Dewhurst | Rose Hill Residency
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Rose Hill Residency

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‘Songs of Borderlands’ Residency |  at The Rose Hill, Brighton

 

April 2025

 

This month I have been in Residency at The Rose Hill venue in Brighton, collaborating with Jack Kingslake and Baran Elitez on a new data-informed spatial sound composition.

 

We have been working compositionally with data, exploring using new processes of spatial sound and multi-sensory ways of listening.

 

 

Thank you to the Rose Hill for all their support.

 

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Residency Sharing: Tue 29 April, 7pm

https://www.therosehill.co.uk/events/songs-of-borderlands-residency

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The collaborative residency is as part of my current ACE ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ period of development, investigating immersive experience, embodied and spatial listening and notions of the ‘collective shadow’.

 
This residency is funded by Arts Council ‘Develop Your Creative Practice’ grant, part funded by UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

 

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About The Project:

 

‘Songs of Borderlands’ is a work in progress immersive sonic installation environment, a memorial to lives lost at borders.

 

Artists Helen Dewhurst (sound artist/concept), Jack Kingslake (sound producer/musician), Jon Armstrong (lighting) and Baran Elitez (data) are developing a data-informed spatial sonic composition, working with material gathered along migration routes.

 

A data driven soundscape plays records of lives lost along global migration routes, particularly focussing on lives lost at sea in small boat crossings.

 

The installation acts as a memorial to individuals often lost without trace, without ceremony or identity.

 

Connecting in multi-sensory ways, the aim is to foster raised awareness, collective accountability and increased humanitarian empathy for the ongoing social impact of sea crossings and enforcement of borders, calling for safer routes for those seeking sanctuary.

 

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Credits:

Helen Dewhurst artist, sound, concept
Jack Kingslake sound production, musician
Baran Elitez data
Jon Armstrong lighting

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