Walking Choir, Retraced
Walking Choir, Retraced
by VOICING, facilitated by soft shock
Walking Choir, Retraced
Video • Sat 18 & Sun 19 July • All Day • Bertrand Russel Room
Walking Choir is a short-film which traces a walk along the Kentish coastline, from Broadstairs to Margate. This community choir were given scores composed in response to the coastline and inspired by Irish Gaelic folk songs of pilgrimage. Deciphered collectively on the day, the soundscape unfolds as they walk along the North Sea Coast.
This short-film is playing in conversation with a live performance by the choir, held in (and out of) the Main Hall on Saturday 18th.
This short-film is playing in conversation with a live performance by the choir, held in the Main Hall on Saturday 18th. See here for more details.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
VOICING
VOICING is a collaborative project by artists Noa Costello and Tomislav Latinovic, working across film, movement, and choral practices. We look for intersections between Irish/Slavic folk traditions and queer languages of intimacy, storytelling, and non-normative archives as tools for connection and critique. Central to the project is a free community choir, which functions as both an artistic method and a social structure. Rehearsals, workshops, and site-responsive sessions form the material basis for VOICING’s films, performances, and installations, allowing sound and movement to emerge collectively rather than through a single authorial voice.
The VOICING Choir:
Jessie Godwin, Peggy Sykes, Tegwen Rattray, Emily Buckley Bunn, Naomi Miller, Tiger Rose, Naomi Miller, Claire McMichael, Esther Weisselberg, Scarlet Short, Hanna Westling, Jemima Pike, Georgia Botros, Rosie Kyrin White, Cecilia Ettedgui.
soft shock
soft shock is a London-based curatorial collective led by curators Júlia Polo (she/her) and Georgie Worth (she/her). With a commitment to sustainable and socially-engaged practices, their curatorial ethos is shaped by interdisciplinary research in the fields of ecology, memory and place. Working with moving image, sound, and performance artists, they centre public programming and participation to facilitate spaces for intergenerational and interspecies knowledge sharing, collective slow doing and process-oriented practices. Their recent work has involved public programming in collaboration with Artangel, Gasworks, SET Social, Bridgehouse Gardens and Tolson Museum.
