Testing out some small scale multimedia interactions around the work I’ve been doing with the Friends of Rimrose Valley Country Park in North Liverpool. National Highways would like to build a four lane highway right through the middle of the park to service the port of Liverpool.
This test work aims to look at what would be lost, using Cyanotype prints to represent local people in their changing environment.
2022 Double holographic projections and soundtrack in Thai-inspired wooden structure. Commissioned by the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds and funded by the Arts and Humanity Research Council (AHRC), with extra support from Halton Borough Council.
I was part of a creative team led by artists Lou Chapelle working on the video element of the project, responding to work of other artists and community members involved, voices that are often unheard when we talk about climate crisis and extinction.
The artwork responds to these questions, engaging and drawing upon personal responses to extinction from diverse backgrounds and experiences (including asylum seekers and refugees temporarily housed at Daresbury Park Hotel, Runcorn and those supported by A Better Tomorrow and Trinity Safe Space, Wat Phra Singh UK Buddhist Temple trustees and dancers from Runcorn, Men Dancing from Liverpool, The Studio Writes and The Studio Sings groups in Widnes). People experiencing the piece are also invited to write their responses and attach them to the structure.
Other members of the creative team were:
Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies Dr Stefan Skrimshire Composer and choir leader Jennifer John Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram Costume designer Rachael Prime Poet Scott Farlow Photography Robert Battersby Project co-ordinator Louise Nulty Production advise Dan Williamson