TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2025 | 7PM | Free ltd availablity
An opportunity to see Helen Dewhursts’ new work in progress - open to a very small audience so please RSVP kassia@therosehill.co.uk and we will confirm your place :)
‘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) will be 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.
As audiences explore geographical space, the piece offers opportunities for ‘embodied listening’*, for individuals to experience migration records in a sensory way, listening with their bodies - providing alternative, expanded methods of listening.
Connecting in multisensory 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..
This collaborative residency is as part of Helen Dewhurst's Arts Council 'Develop Your Creative Practice' grant, part funded by UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Check out more of Helen work here :
*Embodied listening is listening with the whole body, a kind of deep listening in which we are fully present. In this case they are experimenting with special vibrational speaker which you stand on and feel the music vibrate through your feet as well as all around you.
*Data-informed spatial sonic composition - means collecting data (eg. bus arrival times) and turning it into music or even generating the music automatically from the data ( using clever artistic computer programming) Spatial composition usually means having a few speakers spread around the space so you can hear the music all around you, or in a certain position eg. lots of speakers in a straight line along a wall.