A ramble along Red Brook

A ramble along Red Brook

This installation includes a video and an acapella song entitled We all live in the Anthropocene. The song was done collaboratively with two members of Hereford Fire Choir and two inexperienced singers, including myself. The lyrics are from verbatim material adapted to popular English tunes. We used Hereford College of Arts recording studio (April 2016).

The banks of Red Brook near Watery Lane, a discrete tributary of the river Wye, Hereford   March 2016 



Hereford Fire Choir members recording acapella We all live in the Anthropocene

Where are you? an interactive installation

Where are you?

This is an interactive installation, including enhanced rowing garden chairs, a video entitled Water, and a recorded adaptation of God Save the Queen. This soundtrack contains controversial and disturbing material.

Where are you?, interactive installation with enhanced rowing garden chairs. Hereford College of Arts, November 2015.

A recorded adaptation by Martin Cameron of God Save the Queen
This soundtrack contains controversial and disturbing material.


 

How to talk about the Anthropocene, a visual poem

How to talk about the Anthropocene, a visual poem

I emailed  this visual poem to my local community inviting them to talk about the Anthropocene. There are over one hundred people in Herefordshire, where my work is grounded, who sent me feedback and collaborated on this project using the internet.

How to talk about the Anthropocene
The images represent an everyday landscape in Herefordshire – two train stations, Hereford and Holme Lacy. The latter is now disused and intertwined with nature.

The poem is an adaptation of an e-flux programme entitled ‘Quasi-Events: Building and Crumbling Worlds’, a conversation between anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, artist Julieta Aranda and editor Natasha Ginwala (2014).  

How to talk about the Anthropocene? Context

How to talk about the Anthropocene?

This project is informed by the discourses arising from the geological construct of the Anthropocene. This term “denote(s) the present time interval, in which many geologically significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities.”(Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy 2016 ).

However, the construct of the Anthropocene is ambiguous. Whilst humankind has engineered deep changes, the earth will continue “indifferently “with or without us (Macfarlane, Guardian online April 2016).

How to talk about the Anthropocene is a project comprising of three sequences:

- How to talk about the Anthropocene-the video, includes a recorded poem. I emailed the piece to my local community inviting them to talk about the Anthropocene.

- Where are you?, this interactive installation, includes enhanced rowing garden chairs, a video entitled Water, and a transformed sound track of God Save the Queen. The latter is controversial and might not be suitable for all.

- A ramble along Red Brook, is an installation including a video and an acapella song entitled We all live in the Anthropocene. The song is a collaboration between two members of Hereford Fire Choir and two inexperienced singers, including myself. The lyrics are inspired from verbatim material adapted to popular English tunes.