Commissioned by Grow Festival 2018 and Arts Council England to create a site-specific projection for the former Women’s Centre in Corby
“A rich tapestry of animated kaleidoscope imagery and fragmented text is presented as a large-scale outdoor projection, all mixed to a composed audioscape made with YOUR help.”
Visions of Psychopomp was presented in 2018 as an interactive, large-scale projection mapped onto the facade of the former Women’s Centre in the centre of Corby, UK. Our arts collective, livedigitaldesign, was commissioned by Grow Festival 2018 and Arts Council England to create this site-specific installation. The work was conceived and directed by scenographer Joseph Fairweather-Hole and produced collectively by Dave Meckin, Rhiannon Evans, Keir Williams and Joseph Fairweather-Hole.
The piece combined animation, a binaural narrative and a layered soundscape built from oral histories gathered in Avonmouth and the Norwegian Arctic, an original script and live contributions from festival audiences. Over three nights, the empty Women’s Centre became a shifting surface of colour, text and sound, transforming the building into a temporary portal of memory, myth and community voices.
For this project, I created a looping animation that responded directly to the drawings, texts and sound materials generated by the collective. The animation was designed to map precisely to the architecture of the Women’s Centre and ran continuously throughout each evening. Audiences could access the binaural soundtrack and projection through an online portal. I also designed and hosted the online recording and broadcasting system that supported the installation.