- Venue
- Burra History Centre
- Starts
- Friday, September 3, 2021
- Ends
- Sunday, September 5, 2021
- Address
- Easthouse, Papil, West Burra, Shetland ZE2 9LD
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- Shetland screenplay
The material remains of the Stenness station are elusive today, yet the more we explore the landscape, the more its traces are revealed. Poised between land and far haaf, the shoreline draws us to the sea, a constant presence in a world of embedded memory. Poised between land and far haaf (deep sea), the shoreline draws us to the sea, a constant presence in a world of embedded memory. It remains a portal to a place and time of past activity and sound, liminal and littoral, a place for imagining. This is not a documentary, more a poetic response to place and the interplay between that which is gone, that which remains and that which drifts between the two. The resulting work considers the interplay between contemporary and historical perception and the slippage between memory and understanding. Weaving together contemporary and historical images, Shetland voices merge with the sea, drawing breath with the tide. Looping continuously with images and sounds, the installation navigates between distance and nearness, permanence and transience
