Project Art Works have been commissioned to produce new work as part of the ROOT 1066 festival.
Project Art Works have conducted several innovative and investigative projects that focus on how people with complex needs experience built space and other environments. Each survey results in beautifully constructed sound and film documents of the experience. This practice aligns with the psychogeographic practice of investigation, the dérive or drift, and refers to unplanned journeys through urban landscapes and the way in which the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers.
Building on this strand of work we were commissioned to develop a new environmental project in celebration of the ROOT 1066 international festival. Taking Hastings and St Leonard’s on Sea as a whole, DRIFT is a linear survey of a route along the seafront by people who are highly sensitive and responsive to the impact of sound, texture and sensory stimuli of urban environments. Using recordings made during these investigations, we’ve created three sound and video productions, which have been placed in discreet public locations along the route.
ST LEONARDS WARRIOR SQUARE STATION
Drift
Digital film with sound
Duration: 5 mins
St Leonard’s Warrior Square Station Ticket Office
10th September – 16th October
Ticket office opening times:
Monday to Friday 06.00 to 19.20
Saturdays 08.10 to 14.50
Sundays & Public Holidays Closed
BOTTLE ALLEY
Audio Notation of a Journey (Sam and Hannah)
Digital sound work
Duration: 10 mins
Bottle Alley is an open access public space
10th September – 16th October
EAST HILL CLIFF RAILWAY (TOP STATION)
Meet me at the Station
Super 8 film transferred to digital film with sound
Duration: 5 mins
East Hill Cliff Railway
East Hill
Rock-a-Nore Road
TN34 3AR
Opening times:
10.00 to 17.00 daily
10th September – 16th October
TAKE PART
Join us and retrace the route of the devive with Project Art Works participants, families, and artists, experiencing all three installations along the way.
Meet at:
Warrior Square Station
Saturday 24th September
11.00
From September 10, 2016
to October 16, 2016
