Copyright © 2022 Bernard G Mills. All rights reserved
Synopsis:
Doggerland Channels is a generative sound-relief based on the ancient land which once linked Britain to the continent. The cartographic sound art installation for voice and data projection throws a net over the North Sea, revealing the rivers which used to connect us to the continent – when the Thames flowed into the Rhine. Doggerland Channels is a landscape whose borders are fluid, fluvial, in need of being retraced, and revealed for a translated experience of the site. Britain was last connected to Europe through the North Sea about 8000 years ago, and we can expect it to be reconnected during future glacial periods. By responding to the present, and the history of the site, the work questions our connection to the continent, and situates ourselves – as islanders – in this transitory zone: our political exit from the EU. What is your relationship to the continent?
Credits:
Audio-visual production, soldering, technical set-up: Olivia Louvel.
Adobe After Effects: Antoine Kendall.
Support from the Arts Council of England (DYCP). This work proceeds from research undertaken in Lincolnshire July 2021.
A Sound Art Brighton production.
Installed at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton for the first festival edition of Sound Art Brighton http://www.soundartbrighton.com/ 2-6 March 2022
On-site implementation: Jim Wilson.
Olivia Louvel reinstalled Doggerland Channels at Middlesbrough Art Week 2023 for the group show Land-Fill, also exhibiting artists Rong Bao and Jacob Takolwski.
Centre Square 2
Fri 29th Sept – Sat 7th Oct
(closed Mon 2nd & Tues 3rd)
Daily 10 am- 4pm (Sun 12pm – 4pm)
Photography Yuhao Chen
Photography Yuhao Chen
3 ipods/iphones > mini jack/phono
> 3 amps Cambridge Audio 540r 6.1
> 18 Visaton speakers