Immersive Sound and Voice Performance by Original Copy (Meandros)
Saturday 7 June
5pm-5:30pm
Original Copy is an ongoing project by Bristol-based Riccardo Carbone and London-based John Strutton, transforming visual material into immersive sound and voice. Using custom-built software, the duo explore the visible world—objects, images, and material space—to reveal hidden soundscapes and buried narratives.
For this special performance, they are joined by artist Marissa Stoffer, whose work centres on the relationship between humans and the non-human world through symbolism, language, story, and plant-derived colour. Through her foraging practice, Marissa hand-dyes textiles and creates pigments from plants—especially trees—as a form of sensory storytelling.
Together, they will explore the Oak Tree: a quiet yet powerful presence within West Norwood’s landscape by mapping this onto symbolism and ornament from taken from surrounding tombs and monuments. As part of this ritualistic performance they will also respond to some contributions from other artists in Gathering the Commons. Blending technology with ancient craft, the collaboration weaves sound, voice, language, and natural material into an atmospheric meditation on memory, ecology, and what lies just beyond our sight.
This event is being held alongside the current exhibiiton in St.Stephen's Chapel, Gathering the Commons' which brings together a group of artists: Lucy Mayes, Catherine Morland, Marissa Stoffer and Sara Trillo, whose practices explore the intricate relationships between humans, nonhumans, landscapes, and natural materials. For more information on this exhibition please visit www.bosseandbaum.com
Where will this event take place?
Tickets: FREE, but places are limited so booking is essential here on Eventbrite.
Any questions on accessibility or otherwise, please contact Kim Hart on khart@lambeth.gov.uk
Gathering the Commons is part of ‘Illuminate’ a ten day celebration to mark the end of the National Lottery Heritage Fund project designed to conserve the Cemetery’s magnificent landscape and architecture, as well as offer new experiences and facilities to increase community use. Find out about other events here: www.westnorwoodcemetery.org/illuminate
This event is part of the celebrations to mark the completion of a six year National Lottery Heritage Fund project: 'A New Beginning' designed to conserve the Cemetery’s magnificent landscape and architecture, as well as offer new experiences and facilities to increase community use.
You are invited to join us from Friday 30 May through to Sunday 8 June, when the cemetery will be host to a wide range of free events and activities. For some you will need to pre-book, like this one, others you can just turn up.
Please especially join us on Saturday 31 May at 11am for the Grand Re-Opening Ceremony at the Main Entrance.
