- Venue
- Rich Mix
- Starts
- Thursday, January 3, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, January 27, 2013
- Address
- 35-47 Bethnal Green Road London E1 6LA
- Location
- London
“Streets of… a Living Archaeology” is a video sound installation composed of seven art works, which immerse the audience in a virtual reality of the distinguishing sounds, images and smells of Naples, Shanghai, Mumbai, Tangier, Salvador de Bahia, Lisbon and London. The project has been designed by the artist Alda Terracciano to uncover the ancestral memory of three historical, intersecting journeys (the Indo-European migrations, the Silk Road, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade) as they unconsciously resurface in people’s everyday life across the globe, through sounds, movements, and common rituals. The seed inspiration for the installation comes from the artist’s long-term interest in the British intercultural landscape and London in particular. As the most diverse city in Europe and as a crossroad of local and global cultural identities, London represents the pivot of a wheel whose rays reach out towards other places in the world in a cultural continuum. The exhibition incorporates material from the the artist’s public engagement programme, the “Living Archaeology of the Place”. Digging deeper through the layers of the artworks, members of the public have been invited to take part in a series of memory sessions, aimed at exploring the intersection between art and life, people’s personal memories of the cities and their feelings of cultural belonging.
