The project that I have been producing and working for in-situ over the past week is Boy You Turn Me, a text and sound installation and a collaboration between contemporary classical composer Ailis Ni Riain and writer David Gaffney. A commission for Birmingham Book Festival.
Both artists are based in Manchester and they visited the vacant shop unit, that we secured in Birmingham’s Pavilions shopping centre for the project, a few times to aid them in creating the final text and sound piece as a collaborative work.
I find it fascinating to learn about the process of two artists ideas working together to unveil a final whole piece – I squeezed in a quick interview with Ailis during the week before our install to ask her about how her experience of the artisitic production side of the work had gone and how she had found the collaborative process in this project.
(Please note the quality is not great because the footage was recorded on a mobile phone that is on the way out. What is being said gives you an idea though of the collaborative element and experimental nature of this project.)
The installation is open for one more day – Sunday 16th October, 11am to 4pm.
Lower ground floor, Pavilions shopping centre in Birmingham city centre.
Interview with composer Ailis Ni Riain for the project Boy You Turn Me
