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The Beacon-Tower, from the ‘Picture in the Royal Collection
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The Beacon-Tower, from the ‘Picture in the Royal Collection
Original size: 236 mm x 328 mm
- Image reference: PW7436
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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Beacon Tower Commissions 2015 – 2022
Since opening in 2015 ESW’s Beacon Tower has hosted a succession of audio commissions. Made specifically for this iconic landmark these works have ranged from a transmission of recordings from past and present that changed with the tides, to a psychedelic, polemic on the politics of gardens. Facing onto the cycle path that connects Newhaven with the rest of the city these commissions have given passers by an unexpected and alternative encounter with contemporary art as they move about the city.
Influenced by signalling towers and factory cooling vents, the tower is visible from the heights of the city centre. It was designed by Sutherland Hussey Harris Architects as part of the development of ESW’s Creative Laboratories building which won the Arts Funding Prize for Edinburgh in 2010.
Ashanti Harris, OCHE, 2022
To accompany her exhibition Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, Ashanti Harris presented OCHE as part of ESW’s Summer Programme 2022. This work consisted of a series of recordings made by the artist on a trip to Guyana, the birthplace of her father and the source of much of her cultural heritage. These recordings of ambient, natural sounds and conversations were cut together to create a soundscape that reveals the differences and connections between the U.K and the Caribbean and begins to unpick the complex relationship between the two countries and the diverse interchange of cultural influences that underpin the artist’s family history.
Ashanti Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Glasgow. Working with dance, performance, sculpture and installation, Ashanti’s work disrupts historical narratives and reimagines them from a Caribbean diasporic perspective. As part of her creative practice, she is co-director of the dance company Project X – platforming dance of the African and Caribbean diaspora in Scotland; and works collaboratively as part of the collective Glasgow Open Dance School (G.O.D.S) – facilitating experimental movement workshops and research groups. She is also lecturer in Contemporary Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and co-facilitates the British Art Network research group The Re-Action of Black Performance. Recent commissions and exhibitions include: An Exercise in Exorcism, GoMA, Glasgow (2021) JUMBIES, Glasgow International, Glasgow (2021); This Woman’s Work, Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami (2021); Miraculous Noise, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg (2021); OHCE, Radiophrenia, 87.9fm (2020); Being Present, OGR, Torino (2020); In The Open, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2020); The Index Impulse, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick (2020); Pre-Ramble, David Dale, Glasgow (2020); The Skeleton of a Name, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2019)
You can discover more about Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille here and more about her wider practice here
Image credit: Harris Family Photos from Guyana Carnival 1987-2013.
Feronia Wenneborg: air leaking through, 2022
air leaking through by Feronia Wennborg was a polyvocal sound installation inhabiting the Beacon Tower and vibrating with its near surroundings. The building was reconsidered as a portal between public, domestic and imaginary space, a site for listening and drifting. The piece was developed through an instructional score, designed in collaboration with Céline Amendola. The score explores ways of navigating familiar environments through activities of listening, touching and vocalising. It was activated by the artist and collaborators Adriana Minu, Clarinda Tse and Alica Tserkovnaja at different times in their homes. Recordings made in this process were edited, merged and digitally transformed into a sonic landscape mingling with the environmental sounds of the exhibition site.
Feronia Wennborg is an artist, musician and arts programmer based in Glasgow. Her work is based in a process of recording and digital transformation, collecting traces of intimacy and friendship. Feronia often works in close collaboration with others, exploring the social and reimaginative possibilities embedded in practises of listening and sounding.
You can find out more about Feronia’s work here
Adriana Minu is an experimental sound/music maker that has set camp in the world of the senses. In her artistic research and practice she investigates how elements of our lived experience that precede language can be collected and used in creative ways. She likes collaborating with human and non-human entities whose sensory potential she attunes to using her body and voice.
You can find out more about Adriana’s work here
Clarinda Tse is an interdisciplinary artist, listener, facilitator, movement practitioner, Hong Kong-born and Glasgow-based. She works across being a sofa barnacle and a mutating muscle and is currently a committee member of Market Gallery, Glasgow.
You can find out more about Clarinda’s work here
Alica Tserkovnaja explores the current states of the body and it’s needs through a movement and listening based practice. She follows desires to move or to be moved, vocalizing what is or what is to be found. Through this improvisational practice Alica develops choreographic work as an artist and performer.
You can find out more about Alica’s work here
Céline Amendola is a Glasgow based artist whose work explores the potential of art to critique our interpretative habits. The use of varied techniques and media relating to cultures of craft reoccur in her practice to interrogate their cultural and historical background.
You can find out more about Celine’s work here
